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  "$schema": "./item.schema.json",
  "id": "potamides",
  "type": "software",
  "cvs": [
    "np",
    "2page",
    "1page"
  ],
  "featured": true,
  "date": {
    "start": "2025-03",
    "present": true
  },
  "title": "potamides",
  "summary": "Constrain gravitational potentials from stellar stream curvature",
  "details": "A JAX package that fits stream tracks with splines and compares their curvature directly to a potential's accelerations. Co-led with Sirui Wu.",
  "highlight": {
    "topic": "software",
    "image": "highlights/potamides-joss.webp",
    "alt": "Relative likelihood of a halo’s y-axis flattening, q₂, from a Potamides tutorial: a flat plateau from about 0.7 to 1.55 that contains the true value, q₂ = 1, falling to zero on either side.",
    "description": "Fits stream tracks with splines in JAX and compares their curvature directly to a potential's accelerations."
  },
  "repo": "xggs-dev/potamides",
  "role": "co-lead developer",
  "refs": [
    "potamides-joss"
  ],
  "links": [
    {
      "rel": "code",
      "url": "https://github.com/xggs-dev/potamides"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "jax",
    "streams"
  ],
  "tier": "headline",
  "order": 1
}