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Transit Least Squares: An optimized transit-fitting algorithm to search for periodic transits of small planets
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TLS for exocomets search #71

Open MilevaE opened 5 years ago

MilevaE commented 5 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Exocomets are suppose to be as normal as they are in the Solar System, where it is believed that they play an important role delivering organics and water in early times. Search and characterize these objects in other planetary systems will be important to understand life evolution along the universe. However, despite to have a large data set where to search these finger prints (e.g., TESS), this is quite painful because of the shallowness of their signal, and the lack of codes to do it automatically.

Describe the solution you'd like Implementation in TLS of a future to search exocomets, based in the analytical models available.

Describe alternatives you've considered As far as I know only one (maybe some more, but very few) one code is available to perform this search: https://github.com/drgmk/automated_exocomet_hunt

It would be really nice to have this feature in TLS. Thus, instead of install a new code and learn how it works, we can easily do it with TLS.

Additional context Exocomets is a field which will grown a lot in the following years. In fact, this year 2019 took place the first international conference in this regard, and one of the discussion points was the lack of tools so far to search in large data bases.

https://lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2019/1132/info.php3?wsid=1132&venue=Oort

Thanks for your consideration!

hippke commented 5 years ago

Excellent idea! Related to issue #2. This can be implemented similar to the function reference_transit. At the moment I'm a bit overwhelmed with other tasks. Do you know Python and could you help implement it? As a start, we would need an analytical model (you linked one) which generates a light curve. I could talk you through the following steps.

MilevaE commented 5 years ago

Sure, once I release from some of my duties I will jump into :)

thanks!