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phot2lc

phot2lc is s pure-Python interactive tool for extracting light curves from time series photometric data.

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Much of the inspiration for this program came from the WQED light curve extraction software, but phot2lc includes several new features and the ease of installation that comes with pure-Python programs.

Installation

phot2lc can be installed with:

$ pip install phot2lc

Documentation for phot2lc can be found at phot2lc.readthedocs.io

Main Features

  • Comparison star selection
  • Aperture size selection
  • Polynomial detrending
  • Sigma clipping
  • Manual data point removal
  • Barycentric time corrections

Requirements:

  • Python 3.6 (or later)
  • matplotlib 3.1.3 (or later)
  • Astropy 4.0 (or later)
  • LMFIT 1.0.1