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Repository
Fast exoplanet transmission spectrum calculator
Basic Info
Statistics
- Stars: 29
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 23
- Open Issues: 6
- Releases: 12
Metadata Files
README.md
PLanetary Atmospheric Tool for Observer Noobs

Feb 24, 2025: PLATON v6.3 is out! The main difference from v6.2 is that we now include realistic emission from rocky surfaces using the emissivity library from Paragas et al 2025. The library contains 11 mineral compositions across 3 surface textures, and were obtained via lab reflectance measurements.
Oct 30, 2024: PLATON v6.2 is out, with major updates! This corresponds most closely to the version described in Zhang et al 2024. Major changes include GPU support, free retrievals, surface emission, higher-resolution (R=20k) and more up-to-date opacities, leave-one-out cross-validation, pymultinest, and much better plotting tools.
February 2, 2020: PLEASE re-clone your repository if you cloned it before this date! On this date, all data files were deleted from the repository, including from its history. This shrank the repository's size from 1.2 GB to 36 MB, which respects GitHub's size limit.
November 29, 2018: PLATON v3.0 is out! Please check the release notes on GitHub for the list of new features. Our paper actually describes v2.1, but v3 has a substantial number of improvements, and we strongly recommend everyone use it.
NEW (October 1): Version 2 is out, with a huge number of changes! Make sure to check out the release notes, and upgrade.
PLATON is a fast and easy to use forward modelling and retrieval tool for exoplanet atmospheres. It was written by Michael Zhang and Yayaati Chachan, and is based on ExoTransmit by Eliza Kempton.
We welcome any feedback. Please send any comments, suggestions, or bug reports to Michael Zhang: zmzhang "at" caltech.edu ** To find installation instructions and quickstart examples, read the documentation at: https://platon.readthedocs.io
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Owner
- Login: ideasrule
- Kind: user
- Repositories: 7
- Profile: https://github.com/ideasrule
GitHub Events
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- Create event: 4
- Issues event: 5
- Release event: 2
- Watch event: 5
- Issue comment event: 4
- Push event: 41
- Pull request event: 4
- Fork event: 2
Last Year
- Create event: 4
- Issues event: 5
- Release event: 2
- Watch event: 5
- Issue comment event: 4
- Push event: 41
- Pull request event: 4
- Fork event: 2
Committers
Last synced: over 2 years ago
Top Committers
| Name | Commits | |
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| Michael Zhang | z****g@c****u | 230 |
| Michael Zhang | m****4@g****m | 200 |
| y-chachan | y****n@g****m | 28 |
| Michael Zhang | z****g@u****u | 17 |
| Michael Zhang | s****y@M****l | 3 |
| Michael Zhang | s****y@R****u | 2 |
| Vatsal Panwar | v****r | 1 |
| Arjun Savel | 3****l | 1 |
Committer Domains (Top 20 + Academic)
Issues and Pull Requests
Last synced: 7 months ago
All Time
- Total issues: 49
- Total pull requests: 8
- Average time to close issues: 7 months
- Average time to close pull requests: 9 days
- Total issue authors: 10
- Total pull request authors: 6
- Average comments per issue: 1.47
- Average comments per pull request: 0.13
- Merged pull requests: 4
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Past Year
- Issues: 2
- Pull requests: 2
- Average time to close issues: N/A
- Average time to close pull requests: 33 minutes
- Issue authors: 2
- Pull request authors: 1
- Average comments per issue: 0.0
- Average comments per pull request: 0.0
- Merged pull requests: 0
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Top Authors
Issue Authors
- ideasrule (35)
- y-chachan (4)
- joshjchayes (2)
- EduardoCristo (2)
- Huang-CL (1)
- radicamc (1)
- nichollsh (1)
- TakuNishiumi (1)
- AvidaanSrivastava (1)
- JohannesBuchner (1)
Pull Request Authors
- y-chachan (2)
- MCPETH (2)
- kparagas (2)
- josephyeung-32 (1)
- vatsalpanwar (1)
- arjunsavel (1)
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Packages
- Total packages: 1
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Total downloads:
- pypi 270 last-month
- Total dependent packages: 1
- Total dependent repositories: 2
- Total versions: 21
- Total maintainers: 1
pypi.org: platon
A package to compute transmission spectra and retrieve atmospheric parameters from transmission spectra
- Homepage: https://github.com/ideasrule/platon
- Documentation: https://platon.readthedocs.io/
- License: GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)
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Latest release: 6.2.2
published over 1 year ago
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Dependencies
- emcee *
- future *
- matplotlib *
- numpy *
- scipy *