Citing Elómë

Citing Elómë#

If Elómë contributes to your research, please cite the software paper:

Kipping, D. (in preparation). Elómë: analytic, differentiable transit light curves on Apple Silicon. Journal of Open Source Software.

The reference, DOI and BibTeX entry will appear here once the paper is published. Until then, please cite the software by its repository, davidkipping/elome, and the version you used.

The hybrid limb-darkening laws#

If you use the hybrid laws (hybrid2, hybrid4, hybrid5), or model an oblate or ringed planet or a spotted star, please also cite:

  • The hybrid-law paper, which introduces the laws and proves that they give elementary transit light curves for spherical and oblate planets (in preparation).

  • The hybrid-law coefficients paper, which tunes the laws’ poles and tabulates their limb-darkening coefficients for stellar models and passbands (in preparation).

The methods Elómë builds on#

  • The spherical light curve: Agol, Luger & Foreman-Mackey (2020), AJ 159, 123, arXiv:1908.03222.

  • The limb-darkening priors for the quadratic law: Kipping (2013), MNRAS 435, 2152, arXiv:1308.0009.

  • The eccentric Kepler solver: Markley (1995), Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 63, 101.

  • The frontend’s design follows batman: Kreidberg (2015), PASP 127, 1161, arXiv:1507.08285.

  • Starspots as circular caps on the stellar surface: Kipping (2012), MNRAS 427, 2487, arXiv:1209.2985.

  • The sky-projected obliquity convention: Fabrycky & Winn (2009), ApJ 696, 1230, arXiv:0902.0737.