Publications

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

Papers

“WIde Separation Planets In Time (WISPIT): Two directly imaged exoplanets around the Sun-like stellar binary WISPIT 1,” van Capelleveen et al. (2025)

“Direct imaging discovery of a young giant planet orbiting on Solar System scales,” Stolker et al. (2025)

“YSES 2b is a background star: Differential astrometric M-dwarf measurements in time,” Kenworthy et al. (2025)

Attribution

If you use backtracks in your published work, please cite our Zenodo entry (here), 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!

@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},
   }