Case studies

This page includes some real world examples of JuliaAstro and other aero/astro packages being used. This is a constantly evolving document, PRs and issues are welcome!

Solar system

See how Julia is used for current and future satellite missions.

Julia in the Brazilian space program

Access HORIZONS and SPICE ephemeris sources with idiomatic Julia.

EphemerisSources.jl: Idiomatic Ephemeris Sourcing and Parsing in Julia

Exoplanets

Differentiable transit light curves in Julia.

A differentiable N-body code for transit timing and dynamical modelling - II. Photodynamics

Computes derivatives with respect to initial conditions for TTVs, RV, Photodynamics & more.

A differentiable N-body code for transit timing and dynamical modelling - I. Algorithm and derivatives

Analytical transit light curves for limb darkened stars.

Analytic Planetary Transit Light Curves and Derivatives for Stars with Polynomial Limb Darkening

See how this team uses Julia to characterize exoplanets and their orbits with state-of-the-art Bayesian inference techniques.

Octofitter: Fast, Flexible, and Accurate Orbit Modeling to Detect Exoplanets

Stars and galaxies

See how this team from the University of Virginia, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Rutgers, and Johns Hopkins University (JHU) uses Julia to measure star formation histories (SFHs).

Measuring Resolved Star Formation Histories from High-precision Color–Magnitude Diagrams with StarFormationHistories.jl

See how this team used Julia to produce the most accurate catalog of 188 million astronomical objects in just 14.6 minutes with state-of-the-art point and uncertainty estimates.

Achieving Petaflop Performance with Celeste.jl

See how this team uses Julia to prepare for the next generation of black hole characterization missions.

Comrade: Composable Modeling of Radio Emission