spotrod

A semi-analytic model for transits of spotted stars.

Copyright 2013, 2014 Bence Béky

This file is part of Spotrod.

Spotrod is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

Spotrod is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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Contents

This repository contains spotrod, a semi-analytic model for transits of spotted stars. The model is implemented in C and comes with Python API. The following files and directories are included in the root directory:

• toyproblem A toy problem benchmarking Python, Cython, and C implementations of circleangle(), the function calculating $\beta$;
• COPYING the GNU General Public License;
• Makefile makefile for generating toycython.so and toyc.so;
• README.md this file;
• spotrod.c C implementation of the model;
• spotrod.h headers for functions in spotrod.c;
• spotrod-python-wrapper.c C code wrapping spotrod.c in the numpy C API;
• spotrod-setup.py a Python script for compiling spotrod.so;
• test.py a minimal script generating a model lightcurve;
• test.png output of minimal script;
• mcmc.py an MCMC simulation using the emcee package, creating an animation.

Compilation

To generate the module spotrod.so, run make without any arguments.

Citation

If you use spotrod in a publication, please consider citing Béky, Kipping, and Holman, 2014, arXiv:1407.4465.