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What determines how accurate a particular method is at finding the period between Lomb-Scargle and String Length Minimization?
I've been using the Lomb-Scargle and String Length Minimization methods to find the periods of various astronomical objects with unevenly spaced data. I wanted to see if I could find any patterns ...
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Procedure to construct a spectral energy distribution and bolometric light curve of supernovae?
Can anyone check the logic of this proposed workflow and/or point me in the direction of a guide and example to check my work?
Proposed procedure to construct a spectral energy distribution and ...
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Binning a Phase Folded Lightcurve
How do I bin a messy phase folded lightcurve? This is one of the phase folded generated plots for a variable star. I plotted the phase using the period extracted by Lomb-Scargle Periodogram algorithm. ...
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Calculate depth and duration of exoplanet's transit using Python, astropy or lightkurve
I am creating a program for the analysis of exoplanets in Python using Astropy and Lightkurve libraries. I have light curve of specified star and I would like to calculate depth and duration of planet ...
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