A tool for vetting and validating TESS Objects of Interest.

See Giacalone et al. (2021) for more information about this tool.

You can install the most recently released version of this tool via PyPI:

$ pip install triceratops

triceratops can be easily used with jupyter notebook (with Python 3.6 or higher). See the notebook in the examples/ directory for a brief tutorial or check out the documentation.

If you use triceratops, please cite both the paper and the code.

Paper citation:

@ARTICLE{2021AJ....161...24G,
       author = {{Giacalone}, Steven and {Dressing}, Courtney D. and {Jensen}, Eric L.~N. and {Collins}, Karen A. and {Ricker}, George R. and {Vanderspek}, Roland and {Seager}, S. and {Winn}, Joshua N. and {Jenkins}, Jon M. and {Barclay}, Thomas and {Barkaoui}, Khalid and {Cadieux}, Charles and {Charbonneau}, David and {Collins}, Kevin I. and {Conti}, Dennis M. and {Doyon}, Ren{\'e} and {Evans}, Phil and {Ghachoui}, Mourad and {Gillon}, Micha{\"e}l and {Guerrero}, Natalia M. and {Hart}, Rhodes and {Jehin}, Emmanu{\"e}l and {Kielkopf}, John F. and {McLean}, Brian and {Murgas}, Felipe and {Palle}, Enric and {Parviainen}, Hannu and {Pozuelos}, Francisco J. and {Relles}, Howard M. and {Shporer}, Avi and {Socia}, Quentin and {Stockdale}, Chris and {Tan}, Thiam-Guan and {Torres}, Guillermo and {Twicken}, Joseph D. and {Waalkes}, William C. and {Waite}, Ian A.},
        title = "{Vetting of 384 TESS Objects of Interest with TRICERATOPS and Statistical Validation of 12 Planet Candidates}",
      journal = {\aj},
     keywords = {Exoplanet astronomy, Astrostatistics, Planet hosting stars, Exoplanets, 486, 1882, 1242, 498, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics},
         year = 2021,
        month = jan,
       volume = {161},
       number = {1},
          eid = {24},
        pages = {24},
          doi = {10.3847/1538-3881/abc6af},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {2002.00691},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.EP},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021AJ....161...24G},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

Code citation:

@MISC{2020ascl.soft02004G,
       author = {{Giacalone}, Steven and {Dressing}, Courtney D.},
        title = "{triceratops: Candidate exoplanet rating tool}",
     keywords = {Software, NASA, TESS},
         year = 2020,
        month = feb,
          eid = {ascl:2002.004},
        pages = {ascl:2002.004},
archivePrefix = {ascl},
       eprint = {2002.004},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ascl.soft02004G},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

If you are having trouble getting triceratops working on your machine, I recommend installing it in a fresh conda environment. You can download the latest distribution of anaconda here. After doing so, run the following in terminal:

$ conda create -n myenv python=3.8
$ conda activate myenv
(myenv) $ pip install triceratops jupyterlab

You can replace myenv with an environment name of your choice. To exit this environment, run:

(myenv) $ conda deactivate

To delete this environment, run:

$ conda remove --name myenv --all