LightCurveFile¶

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

Bases: object

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

from_fits(path_or_url, \*\*kwargs)	WARNING: THIS FUNCTION IS DEPRECATED AND WILL BE REMOVED VERY SOON.
header(self[, ext])	Header of the object at extension ext
plot(self[, flux_types, style])	Plot all the light curves contained in this light curve file.

Attributes Documentation

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 Documentation

classmethod from_fits(path_or_url, **kwargs)¶

WARNING: THIS FUNCTION IS DEPRECATED AND WILL BE REMOVED VERY SOON.

Please use lightkurve.open() instead.

header(self, ext=0)¶

Header of the object at extension ext

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

Plot all the light curves contained in this light curve file.

Parameters

flux_typesstr or list of str

List of flux types to plot. Default is to plot all available. (For Kepler the default fluxes are ‘SAP_FLUX’ and ‘PDCSAP_FLUX’.

stylestr

matplotlib.pyplot.style.context, default is ‘fast’

kwargsdict

Dictionary of keyword arguments to be passed to KeplerLightCurve.plot().