vplanet
The Virtual Planet Simulator (by VirtualPlanetaryLaboratory)
vplot
VPLanet plotting utility (by VirtualPlanetaryLaboratory)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
vplanet
Posts with mentions or reviews of vplanet.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
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Help with running exoplanet simulations
Hello!! I'm an 11th grade AP Research student and I need help running exoplanet simulations. All of the simulations lead me to GitHub repositories (which I don't know how to use) and the installation guides are confusing. I'm currently looking at VPLanet (link to GitHub repository | link to installation guide), as well as vplot, PandExo, and Exo-Transmit. If there are any other options for running models of simulations, please let me know! My research is studying hycean exoplanets and relating them to future exoplanet characterization space missions, and I want to simulate a planet's conditions as well as instrumentation.
- Are there any planets where each of the four seasons lasts a different amount of time (in Earth days)?
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Can I get a hand with understanding the atmosphere composition of my planet please? I'm using Artifexian's videos as a guide, but there's some points that I'm unclear on.
Also, I can't believe I haven't come across VPLanet before. I will certainly be experimenting with that, especially the binary module to calculate the orbital evolution of a circumbinary planet.
vplot
Posts with mentions or reviews of vplot.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
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Help with running exoplanet simulations
Hello!! I'm an 11th grade AP Research student and I need help running exoplanet simulations. All of the simulations lead me to GitHub repositories (which I don't know how to use) and the installation guides are confusing. I'm currently looking at VPLanet (link to GitHub repository | link to installation guide), as well as vplot, PandExo, and Exo-Transmit. If there are any other options for running models of simulations, please let me know! My research is studying hycean exoplanets and relating them to future exoplanet characterization space missions, and I want to simulate a planet's conditions as well as instrumentation.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing vplanet and vplot you can also consider the following projects:
Principia - 𝑛-Body and Extended Body Gravitation for Kerbal Space Program
lightcurve-of-the-day - Animated transit lightcurve posted once a day to twitter
magic - MagIC is a high-performance code that solves the magneto-hydrodynamics equations in rotating spherical shells