Warn if period_grid returns very large number of periods

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Transit Least Squares: An optimized transit-fitting algorithm to search for periodic transits of small planets

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Warn if period_grid returns very large number of periods #34

Closed hippke closed 5 years ago

hippke commented 5 years ago

If user provides mass, radius with very small values, the period_grid can contain a very large number of periods. Providing unrealistically small mass and radius can happen by accident or from faulty catalog values. Possible solutions:

Reject unphysical stellar values (e.g., make R_star_min > 0.1)
Warn if len(period_grid)>X where e.g. X>10^6

hippke commented 5 years ago

Limits introduced with 1.0.14