radial

A pure Python code for estimating radial velocities of stars with a massive companion.

Read the docs here!

Installation

In order to install radial, use the following command:

python setup.py install

Note: In order to compile the documentation into html files, you will need sphinx and sphinx_rtd_theme. To compile it, navigate to the docs folder and issue the following command:

make html

Changelog

Version 0.4:

• lmfit is used to perform minimization, and emcee to estimate uncertainties. The support for astropy.units on parameter estimation was dropped because of performance issues.
• The project is now called radial.

Version 0.5:

• The project now has proper documentation.

License

Copyright 2017 Leonardo A. dos Santos. radial is a free software available under the MIT License. For details see the LICENSE file.