LightCurveFile¶

class lightkurve.lightcurvefile.LightCurveFile(path, **kwargs)¶

Generic class to represent FITS files which contain one or more light curves.

Parameters

pathstr or astropy.io.fits.HDUList object: Local path or remote url of a lightcurve FITS file. Also accepts a FITS file object already opened using AstroPy.
kwargsdict: Keyword arguments to be passed to astropy.io.fits.open.

Attributes Summary

`PDCSAP_FLUX`	Returns a LightCurve object for PDCSAP_FLUX
`SAP_FLUX`	Returns a LightCurve object for SAP_FLUX
`cadenceno`	Cadence number
`dec`	Declination of the target.
`ra`	Right Ascension of the target.
`time`	Time measurements

Methods Summary

`header`(self[, ext])	Header of the object at extension `ext`
`plot`(self[, flux_types, style])	Plot the light curve file using matplotlib’s `plot` method.

Attributes Documentation

Methods Documentation

plot(self, flux_types=None, style='lightkurve', **kwargs)¶

Plot the light curve file using matplotlib’s plot method.

Parameters

axmatplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot: A matplotlib axes object to plot into. If no axes is provided, a new one will be generated.
flux_typeslist or None: Which fluxes in the LCF to plot. Default is lcf._flux_types(). For Kepler this is PDCSAP and SAP flux. Pass a list to change flux types.
normalizebool: Normalize the lightcurve before plotting?
xlabelstr: Plot x axis label
ylabelstr: Plot y axis label
titlestr: Plot set_title
stylestr: Path or URL to a matplotlib style file, or name of one of matplotlib’s built-in stylesheets (e.g. ‘ggplot’). Lightkurve’s custom stylesheet is used by default.
kwargsdict: Dictionary of arguments to be passed to matplotlib.pyplot.plot.

Returns