ben-cassese / squishyplanet

Transits of non-spherical exoplanets
https://squishyplanet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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Rings 💍 #20

Open ben-cassese opened 4 weeks ago

ben-cassese commented 4 weeks ago

Almost all of the ingredient needed to add opaque rings already exist: in the sky plane, you can trace out all the relevant regions by traveling along ellipses, so we can reuse all of the machinery in polynomial_limb_darkened_transit. We'd need to solve for intersections between the rings and the planet, then correctly choose which curves to integrate along. We'd also would probably want some new visualization tools and tests.