NEOs.jl

DOI

NEOs.jl is a Near-Earth Object orbital propagator and fitter in Julia. NEOs.jl exploits jet transport techniques via TaylorIntegration.jl.

Authors

  • Jorge A. Pérez, Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
  • Luis Benet, Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Installation

The current version of this package may be installed in Julia pkg manager via:

] add NEOs

Usage

The apophis.jl file in the pha directory contains an example script. This script may be called as:

julia --project apophis.jl --help

NEOs.propagate also supports multi-threading:

julia -t <number-of-threads> --project apophis.jl --help

Acknowledgments

We acknowledge financial support from UNAM-PAPIIT grant IG100819 and computing resources provided by LANCAD-UNAM-DGTIC-284.

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