Star Populations =============
vespa.stars
The fundamental population unit within vespa is a StarPopulation, from which EclipsePopulation inherits. This is the basic object which keeps track of the properties of a population of stars and enables application of various observational constraints to rule out portions of the population.
For the built-in false positive populations, EBPopulation inherits from Observed_BinaryPopulation, and HEBPopulation inherits from Observed_TriplePopulation. BEBPopulation inherits from BGStarPopulation through BGStarPopulation_TRILEGAL.
vespa.stars.StarPopulation
Observationally Constrained Star Populations ------------------
EBPopulation and HEBPopulation inherit from very similar star population classes: Observed_BinaryPopulation and Observed_TriplePopulation. Both of these take either photometric or spectroscopic observed properties of a star and generate binary or triple populations consistent with those observations.
vespa.stars.Observed_BinaryPopulation
vespa.stars.Observed_TriplePopulation
Background Star Population ----------------------
BEBPopulation inherits from BGStarPopulation through BGStarPopulation_TRILEGAL.
vespa.stars.BGStarPopulation_TRILEGAL
vespa.stars.BGStarPopulation
Other Star Populations ---------
These are the other StarPopulation classes defined in vespa. Raghavan_BinaryPopulation is particularly useful, which produces a population according to the binary distribution described by the Raghavan (2010) survey.
vespa.stars.BinaryPopulation
vespa.stars.Simulated_BinaryPopulation
vespa.stars.Raghavan_BinaryPopulation
vespa.stars.TriplePopulation