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Research Resources

Here is a collection of publicly available research codes for the scientific community.

BOREALIS (BeamfOrmed Radio Emission AnaLysIS)

Authors: Jake D. Turner, Jean-Mathias Griessmeier, Phillipe Zarka, and I. Vasylieva

The BOREALIS pipeline was created to search for auroral radio emission from exoplanets in radio beamformed data. However, the BOREALIS pipeline can be applied to any beamformed data and currently works with LOFAR, NenuFAR, UTR-2, and the LoTSS LOFAR-HBA survey (beamformed data extracted from visibilities) data. 

Boreas is the mythical north wind god in Greek mythology and was believed to cause the northern lights on Earth to dance. In 1619, Galileo Galilei coined the term “Aurora Borealis” for the northern lights named after Aurora, the Roman goddess of the dawn, and the Greek god Boreas. 

Requirements: Code only works in IDL

Download on Github: BOREALIS

EXOMOP (EXOplanet Modeling Package)

Author: Jake D. Turner 

WHAT IT DOES:

  • Finds the best-fit to a transit light curve using MCMC techniques (See README file for more info)

  •  Accesses the influence of red noise using three different methods

Requirements: Code only works in IDL

DOWNLOAD on Github: EXOMOP 

ExoDRPL (Exoplanet Data Reduction PipeLine)

Authors: Kyle Pearson and Jake D. Turner

 WHAT IT DOES:

  • Calibrate data using flats and biases

  • Creates light curve through aperture photometry using reference stars

Requirements: Code only works in IRAF

DOWNLOAD on Github: ExoDRPL 

The code has been superseded by the Python version: EXOTIC