Prediciting the position of exoplanets. Web version is available at https://www.whereistheplanet.com/. Credit: Jason Wang, Matas Kulikauskas, and Sarah Blunt.
whereistheplanet is easily installed through PyPI:
pip install whereistheplanet
Requires orbitize! (https://github.com/sblunt/orbitize/) and git-lfs to pull the posteriors. After you clone the repositroy and use git lfs pull to pull the posteriors, install using
pip install -e .
This creates a script whereistheplanet that you can call from anywhere in the terminal.
If you have issues running whereistheplanet on your machine, you can check out the querytheplanet package. Howevert, please do not run large amounts (100+) queries in a short span of time, to avoid overloading the webserver. To avoid large number of queries, you should probably be computing the orbit yourself.
Open a terminal window and run
whereistheplanet hr8799b
If you want the planet location at a particular date.
whereistheplanet hr8799b --time 2019-01-01
To see all of the planets currently supported:
whereistheplanet --list
If you used this for your research, please cite the ASCL entry of it:
Wang, J. J., Kulikauskas, M., Blunt, S. 2021, Astrophysics Source Code Library, ascl:2101.003