.. _in_the_wild:

Publications
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*backtracks* has been used in many publications since it began development - reach out to us to add your paper to this list!

Papers
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`"WIde Separation Planets In Time (WISPIT): Two directly imaged exoplanets around the Sun-like stellar binary WISPIT 1," <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025A%26A...704A.221V/abstract>`_ van Capelleveen et al. (2025)

`"Direct imaging discovery of a young giant planet orbiting on Solar System scales," <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025A%26A...700A..21S/abstract>`_ Stolker et al. (2025)

`"YSES 2b is a background star: Differential astrometric M-dwarf measurements in time," <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025A%26A...701A.104K/abstract>`_ Kenworthy et al. (2025)


Attribution
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If you use `backtracks` in your published work, please cite our Zenodo entry (`here <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14838370>`_), and provide a footnote/acknowledgement linking to our package. An example bibtex citation is included below, but you may wish to cite a specific version of the package via zenodo instead. Thank you!

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   @software{backtracks_code,
        author       = {William O. Balmer and
                        Gilles P. P. L. Otten and
                        Tomas Stolker},
        title        = {backtracks: a python package to compare relative astrometry with background helical motion: v0.6},
        month        = feb,
        year         = 2025,
        publisher    = {Zenodo},
        version      = {v0.6},
        doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.14838369},
        url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14838369},
      }