Examples & Tutorials

Below you’ll find a collection of Jupyter Notebooks that demonstrate how to use starry in various different ways. We’re still adding tutorials to this page, so check back soon for more.

The basics

• The basics
• Lazy versus greedy evaluation
• Map orientation
• A simple exoplanet system
• FAQs

Light curves in reflected light

• Maps in reflected light

Spectroscopy and radial velocity

• The Rossiter-McLaughlin effect
• Multi-wavelength maps

Custom Models

• Star spots
• Exposure time integration
• Light travel time delay

Inference and optimization

• Eclipsing binary: Generate the data
• Eclipsing binary: pymc3 solution for the maps
• Eclipsing binary: Linear solution for the maps
• Eclipsing binary: Solving for everything the slow way
• Eclipsing binary: Solving for everything the fast way
• Where’s the spot?
• Linear solve
• Marginal likelihood
• Hot jupiter phase curve example
• The pixel transform
• Pixel sampling
• Dimensionality Reduction

Miscellaneous

• The null space
• Staying Positive
• Notes on limb darkening normalization
• Orbit visualization
• Derivation of the radial velocity field expansion