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How do I get temperature and diameter from a light curve?
I recently learned that short-period pulsating stars vary in diameter and temperature when they pulsate. If I have a light curve for such an object, is it possible to calculate its diameter and ...
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How much time do I have left to easily spot the recently brightened Recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi with binoculars and mild light pollution?
Excellent answers to Binocular-friendly star map to find the Recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi? provide some helpful maps for circa 8° FOV binoculars, but due to spatial and potential meteorological ...
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A basic question about light curves
I'm new here, so if I've done anything wrong, please let me know.
I've been taking a look at some photometry data collected from TESS, and I encountered this light curve:
(please ignore the blue and ...
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Plot SuperWasp Lightcurves
I am trying to plot superwasp lightcurves in python from the fits files, using TMID and FLUX2, getting this:
There is a way to transform the information so I can plot the lightcurves with the kepler ...
