ldtk: Limb Darkening Toolkit
@article{Parviainen2015ldtkLD, title={ldtk: Limb Darkening Toolkit}, author={Hannu Parviainen and Suzanne Aigrain}, journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}, year={2015}, volume={453}, pages={3821-3826} }
We present a Python package LDTk that automates the calculation of custom stellar limb darkening (LD) profiles and model-specific limb darkening coefficients (LDC) using the library of PHOENIX-generated specific intensity spectra by Husser et al. (2013). The aim of the package is to facilitate analyses requiring custom generated limb darkening profiles, such as the studies of exoplanet transits--especially transmission spectroscopy, where the transit modelling is carried out for custom narrow…
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