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Review

Transit and Radial velocity Interactive Fitting tool for Orbital analysis and N-body simulations: The Exo-Striker.

The Exo-Striker analyzes exoplanet orbitals, performs N-body simulations, and models the RV stellar reflex motion caused by dynamically interacting planets in multi-planetary systems. It offers a broad range of tools for detailed analysis of transit and Doppler data, including power spectrum analysis for Doppler and transit data, Keplerian and dynamical modeling of multi-planet systems, MCMC and nested sampling, Gaussian Processes modeling, and a long-term stability check of multi-planet systems. The Exo-Striker can also perform Mean Motion Resonance (MMR) analysis, create fast fully interactive plots, and export ready-to-use LaTeX tables with best-fit parameters, errors, and statistics. It combines Fortran efficiency and Python flexibility and is cross-platform compatible (MAC OS, Linux, Windows).

Features

  • Keplerian and Dynamical modeling of RV & Transit photometry exoplanet data.

  • RV signal and alias search: via GLS periodogram & maximum lnL periodogram (MLP).

  • Activity index signal search via GLS periodogram.

  • RVs vs. Activity time-series correlation analysis/plots.

  • RV auto-fit (RV automated planet-finder algorithm).

  • Transit signal search (via “TLS”).

  • Interactive transit photometry detrending (via “wotan”), interactive outlier removal, and more.

  • Linear models for detrending ground-based transit photometry.

  • GP modeling (via “celerite”).

  • Joint RVs + Transit + GPs best-fit optimization (internal Fortran Simplex and L-M minimizers, or many more via “SciPyOp”).

  • Joint RVs + Transit + GPs MCMC/Nested Sampling (via “emcee” & “dynesty”).

  • TTVs extraction.

  • TTVs and/or joint TTVs + RVs analysis.

  • Fit for apsidal orbital precession, or apply General Relativity (GR) precession.

  • Long-term stability check of multiple planetary systems using SyMBA, MVS, and MVS with a GR precession.

  • Instant AMD stability check for multiple planetary systems (including during optimization or MCMC/Nested Sampling).

  • Multi-platform: It works on MAC OS (10.6+), Linux (Suse, Mint, Ubuntu, etc.) and Windows 10.

  • Import/Export of work sessions and multi-sessions.

  • Export plots to a matplotlib window for further customization.

  • Export ready to use LaTeX tables with best-fit parameters, errors, and statistics.

  • Print the GUI screen into a .jpeg/.png image (useful for sharing quick results).

  • Fully interactive, super-fast, high-quality, exportable plots.

  • Integrated Bash-shell (Linux only).

  • Integrated Jupyter shell.

  • Handy “cornerplot” GUI control.

  • Instant online access to the “RVBank” database (over 212 000 RVs and activity indices of about 3000 HARPS stars & over 64 000 RVs and activity indices of about 1700 HIRES stars).

  • Handy text-editor and calculator tools.

  • Direct import of TESS lc.fits and CHEOPS SCI_COR.fits files.

  • Importable as a standard python library (i.e., “import exostriker”).

What is to be implemented

  • Larger arsenal of N-body/dynamical simulation/analysis tools (+ “REBOUND” is planned to be included).

  • Internal TTV and photo-dynamical modeling (i.e. the external “TTVFast” will become a secondary option).

  • Swap “celerite” with “celerite2” (the dSHO kernel from “celerite2” is available).

  • Combined modeling with Astrometry (work in progress).

Developers

  • Trifon Trifonov, MPIA Heidelberg.

  • with contributions by Mathias Zechmeister, Jakub Morawski, Man Hoi Lee, Stefan Dreizler, Grigorii Smirnov-Pinchukov, Stephan Stock, Jonas Kemmer, Harry Psarakis and Desislava Antonova.