stephtdouglas / thejoker

A custom Monte Carlo sampler for the (gravitational) two-body problem

The Joker [YO-ker]

A custom Monte Carlo sampler for the two-body problem.

Authors

• Adrian Price-Whelan (Princeton)
• David W. Hogg (NYU, MPIA, & Flatiron)
• Dan Foreman-Mackey (UW)

Attribution

If you make use of this code, please cite both the paper describing the method, and the Zenodo DOI |DOI| as a software citation:

@misc{Price-Whelan:2017a,
  author       = {Adrian Price-Whelan and
                  David W. Hogg},
  title        = {adrn/thejoker: Release v0.1},
  month        = jan,
  year         = 2017,
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.264481},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.264481}
}

@ARTICLE{Price-Whelan:2017b,
   author = {{Price-Whelan}, A.~M. and {Hogg}, D.~W. and
             {Foreman-Mackey}, D. and {Rix}, H.-W.},
    title = "{The Joker: A Custom Monte Carlo Sampler for Binary-star and
              Exoplanet Radial Velocity Data}",
    journal = {\apj},
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    eprint = {1610.07602},
    primaryClass = "astro-ph.SR",
    keywords = {binaries: spectroscopic, methods: data analysis,
                methods: statistical, planets and satellites: fundamental
                parameters, surveys, techniques: radial velocities},
    year = 2017,
    month = mar,
    volume = 837,
    eid = {20},
    pages = {20},
    doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/aa5e50},
    adsurl = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017ApJ...837...20P},
    adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

Documentation

See the documentation for information on how to install and use The Joker.

License