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Welcome to the documentation page for Octofitter.jl. This page includes tutorial and an API reference for using this package.

Octofitter is a Julia package for performing Bayesian inference against a wide variety of exoplanet / binary star data.

The package provides a simple but powerful modelling language which is used to generate efficient, differentiable code. You can then plug it into a variety of samplers. The package also contains analysis and visualization tools for understanding your results.

Note

Octofitter is under active development and is only tested against Julia 1.9+

Supported data:

  • sample directly from images and interferometric visibilities
  • exoplanet astrometry
  • stellar astrometric acceleration
  • radial velocity
  • experimental support for transit data based on Transits.jl

Any and all combinations also work together.

Modelling features:

  • multiple planets (one or more)
  • co-planar, and non-coplanar systems
  • arbitrary priors and parameterizations
  • link mass to photometry via atmosphere models

Speed:

Fit astrometry on your laptop in minutes!

  • Highly optimized code and derivatives are generated from your model
  • Higher order sampler (No U-Turn sampler) which explores the parameter space very efficiently
  • Run on a single core, multiple threads, or hundreds of nodes by changing just a single line of code

The package supports only bound, 2-body Keplerian orbits. Support for hyperbolic orbits and multi-body physics are not currently planned. Pull-requests to PlanetOrbits implementing this functionality would be welcome.

See also: the python libraries Orbitize!, orvara, and exoplanet.

Read the paper

In addition to these documentation and tutorial pages, you can read the paper published in the Astronomical Journal (open-access).

Please cite this paper if you use Octofitter in your work.

Getting Started

Tutorials

Documentation