LightCurve

The LightCurve class is an extension of AstroPy’s TimeSeries object, which itself extends AstroPy’s Table. Compared to a generic Table, LightCurve objects enforce the presence of three special data columns: time, flux, and flux_err. This enables a LightCurve object to offer a range of methods which are specific to working with flux-based time series data.

Constructor

Light curves can be instantiated by passing array-like values to the time, flux, and flux_err parameters. Additional columns can be added by passing a table-like object to the data parameter.

LightCurve([data, time, flux, flux_err])

Subclass of AstroPy Table guaranteed to have time, flux, and flux_err columns.

Attributes

Another difference with AstroPy Table is that all columns can be accessed conveniently as attributes. For example, LightCurve.time is offered as a shorthand for LightCurve["time"].

LightCurve.time	Time values stored as an AstroPy Time object.
LightCurve.flux	Brightness values stored as an AstroPy Quantity object.
LightCurve.flux_err	Brightness uncertainties stored as an AstroPy Quantity object.

Metadata

All meta data are stored in the meta dictionary. For convenience, meta data can be accessed as object attributes, e.g. LightCurve.sector is a short-hand for LightCurve.meta["sector"].

LightCurve.meta

Plotting

LightCurve.plot(**kwargs)	Plot the light curve using Matplotlib’s plot method.
LightCurve.scatter([colorbar_label, …])	Plots the light curve using Matplotlib’s scatter method.
LightCurve.errorbar([linestyle])	Plots the light curve using Matplotlib’s errorbar method.
LightCurve.plot_river(period[, epoch_time, …])	Plot the light curve as a river plot.

Data manipulation

The following methods all return a new LightCurve object.

LightCurve.append(others[, inplace])	Append one or more other LightCurve object(s) to this one.
LightCurve.copy([copy_data])	Return a copy of the table.
LightCurve.bin([time_bin_size, …])	Bins a lightcurve in equally-spaced bins in time.
LightCurve.fill_gaps([method])	Fill in gaps in time.
LightCurve.flatten([window_length, …])	Removes the low frequency trend using scipy’s Savitzky-Golay filter.
LightCurve.fold([period, epoch_time, …])	Returns a FoldedLightCurve object folded on a period and epoch.
LightCurve.normalize([unit])	Returns a normalized version of the light curve.
LightCurve.remove_nans([column])	Removes cadences where column is a NaN.
LightCurve.remove_outliers([sigma, …])	Removes outlier data points using sigma-clipping.

Conversions

LightCurve.to_corrector([method])	Returns a corrector object to remove instrument systematics.
LightCurve.to_csv([path_or_buf])	Writes the light curve to a CSV file.
LightCurve.to_fits([path, overwrite, …])	Converts the light curve to a FITS file in the Kepler/TESS file format.
LightCurve.to_pandas()	Convert this TimeSeries to a DataFrame with a DatetimeIndex index.
LightCurve.to_periodogram([method])	Converts the light curve to a Periodogram power spectrum object.
LightCurve.to_seismology(**kwargs)	Returns a Seismology object for estimating quick-look asteroseismic quantities.
LightCurve.to_table()
LightCurve.read(filename[, time_column, …])	Read and parse a file and returns a astropy.timeseries.TimeSeries.
LightCurve.write

Other Utility Methods

LightCurve.estimate_cdpp([transit_duration, …])	Estimate the CDPP noise metric using the Savitzky-Golay (SG) method.
LightCurve.query_solar_system_objects([…])	Returns a list of asteroids or comets which affected the light curve.
LightCurve.interact_bls([notebook_url, …])	Display an interactive Jupyter Notebook widget to find planets.
LightCurve.create_transit_mask(period, …)	Returns a boolean array that is True during transits and False elsewhere.
LightCurve.search_neighbors([limit, radius])	Search the data archive at MAST for the most nearby light curves.

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