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UTM, a universal simulator for lightcurves of transiting systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2008

Hans Deeg
Hans Deeg*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, C. Via Lactea S/N, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The Universal Transit Modeller (UTM) is a light-curve simulator for all kinds of transiting or eclipsing configurations between arbitrary numbers of several types of objects, which may be stars, planets, planetary moons, and planetary rings. Applications of UTM to date have been mainly in the generation of light-curves for the testing of detection algorithms. For the preparation of such test for the Corot Mission, a special version has been used to generate multicolour light-curves in Corot's passbands. A separate fitting program, UFIT (Universal Fitter) is part of the UTM distribution and may be used to derive best fits to light-curves for any set of continuously variable parameters. UTM/UFIT is written in IDL code and its source is released in the public domain under the GNU General Public License.

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Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Symposium S253: Transiting Planets , May 2008 , pp. 388 - 391
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2009

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