Title
kima: Exoplanet detection in radial velocities.
Abstract
The radial-velocity (RV) method is one of the most successful in the detection of exoplanets, but is hindered by the intrinsic RV variations of the star, which can easily mimic or hide true planetary signals. kima is a package for the detection and characterization of exoplanets using RV data. It fits a sum of Keplerian curves to a timeseries of RV measurements and calculates the evidence for models with a fixed number Np of Keplerian signals, or after marginalising over Np. Moreover, kima can use a GP with a quasi-periodic kernel as a noise model, to deal with activity-induced signals. The hyperparameters of the GP are inferred together with the orbital parameters. The code is written in C++, but includes a helper Python package, pykima, which facilitates the analysis of the results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.21105/joss.00487
J. Open Source Software
Field
DocType
Volume
Astronomy,Kernel (linear algebra),Hyperparameter,Kima,Algorithm,Exoplanet,Orbital elements,Python (programming language),Physics
Journal
3
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
26
Journal of Open Source Software, 3(26), 487, 2018
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
João Pascoal Faria18319.05
Nuno Santos243.22
Pedro Figueira300.68
Brendon J. Brewer451.48