[ascl:2602.015]
ethraid: Characterize long-period companions with partial orbits
ethraid characterizes long-period bound companions using partial-orbit data by analyzing RV trends and curvature to constrain the properties, including mass and separation, of distant giant planets and other long-period companions. It jointly models radial velocity, astrometric, and direct imaging measurements in a Bayesian framework, using Doppler, astrometric, and imaging constraints to derive posterior distributions on companion parameters. A command-line interface runs orbit fits, generates plots, and reports 95% confidence intervals in a single step. The code returns raw and processed posterior samples and up to three plots: a joint two-dimensional posterior in mass–separation space, and marginalized one-dimensional PDFs and CDFs. ethraid includes fitting tools, with modules for astrometry fitting and radial-velocity fitting.
- Code site:
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https://github.com/jvanzand/ethraid
- Described in:
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https://scixplorer.org/abs/2024AJ....167..250V
- EMAC link:
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https://emac.gsfc.nasa.gov/?cid=2508-002
- Bibcode:
- 2026ascl.soft02015V