Description

This package allows for easy and very quick Monte Carlo simulation of populations of orbits, giving instantly distributions of projected separations, relative RVs between components, etc. Includes calculations for eccentric orbits. Handy for simulating imaging or RV observations. This code is one of the modules that makes up the `Morton (2012) <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...761....6M>`_ validation procedure. Makes occasional use of the `astropy <www.astropy.org>`_ ``Quantity`` object to keep track of some quantities, and the astropy ``SkyCoord`` object to keep track of coordinates. Also uses `pandas <pandas.pydata.org>`_ to save/restore populations in H5 format.