THOR

Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery

Installation

Warning: The THOR code is still in very active development.

The corresponding notebook repository can be found at: https://github.com/moeyensj/thor_notebooks

The following installation paths are available:
Anaconda
Docker
Source

Anaconda

thor can be downloaded directly from anaconda:
conda install -c moeyensj thor

Or, if preferred, installed into its own environment via:
conda create -n thor_py38 -c moeyensj thor python=3.8

Docker

A Docker container with the latest version of the code can be pulled using:

docker pull moeyensj/thor:latest

To run the container:

docker run -it moeyensj/thor:latest

The THOR code is installed the /projects directory, and is by default also installed in the container's Python installation. To access the code in Python:

(base) root@202110177eee:/# python
Python 3.6.9 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, Jul 30 2019, 19:07:31)
[GCC 7.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import thor
>>>

Source

Clone this repository using either ssh or https. Once cloned and downloaded, cd into the repository.

To install THOR in its own conda enviroment please do the following:

conda create -n thor_py38 -c defaults -c conda-forge -c astropy -c moeyensj --file requirements.txt python=3.8

Or, to install THOR in a pre-existing conda environment called env:

conda activate env
conda install -c defaults -c conda-forge -c astropy -c moeyensj --file requirements.txt

Once pre-requisites have been installed using either one of the options above, then:

python setup.py install

Or, if you are actively planning to develop or contribute to THOR, then:

python setup.py develop --no-deps

You should now be able to start Python and import THOR.

┌─(thor_py38)[moeyensj][±][main ✓][~/projects/thor]
└─▪ python
Python 3.8.8 (default, Apr 13 2021, 19:58:26)
[GCC 7.3.0] :: Anaconda, Inc. on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import thor
>>>

If you would like to run Jupyter Notebook or Juptyter Lab with THOR please see the installation instructions in the THOR notebooks repository.