Questions tagged [light-curve]
Questions about the time-dependence of the light intensity of a celestial object or region.
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Using data from the Fine Guidance System (HST)
Has anyone been able to successfully use data from the Hubble Space Telescope's fine guidance system in order to create light curves?
I found a bunch of older papers that reference this instrument, ...
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Why does Mars have a jagged light curve?
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The following chart is the predicted light curve (visual magnitude as a function of time) of Mars, according to the most recent ephemeris data. Magnitude data is sampled with a 2 days ...
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plotting light curve for x ray data
how can I plot the light curve for Chandra X-ray data? I want to extract the counts within the specified energy range from the light curve.
e.g., I have to extract the counts within the energy range ...
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Light curves for Chandra
I am working with Chandra data. I only have the corrected PI files for the sources. Is there a way to plot the light curve from this PI file. I wanted to extract the color magnitude ultimately.
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Resource suggestions?
If I want to research binary stars (to find out about their properties from their light curves) and I need to know how to interpret light curves for the same, what would be a good resource to refer to?...
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Looking for feedback for my python GUI: visualise exoplanet transit and simulate atmospheric temperature
This isn't necessarily an astronomy question (although there may be plenty of astronomy errors in my GUI), and I apologise in advance if this kind of thing is not allowed here and the question is to ...
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On the "periodic" lightcurves of Active Galactic Nuclei
So apparently they are all lightcurves of (likely candidates) Active Galactic Nuclei and in some way or the other they all appear to be periodic:
I'd like to know the reason for this and the ...
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Why did it take so long for SN1987A to reach peak brightness?
The light from SN1987A first reached us on February 23, 1987, and its brightness peaked in mid May, almost 3 months later.
However, every source that I can find states that it normally only takes a ...
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Differentiating supernova types with light curves
as an introductory activity for my work on transients, I am studying the light curves of different supernovae. It appears that Type-I supernovae have a more pronounced maximum than Type-II supernovae. ...
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Has the new type II supernova SN 2023ixf's subtype been determined yet, and is a tentative light curve possible? Is it still getting brighter?
Wikipedia's article on SN 2023ixf begins:
SN 2023ixf is a type II (core collapse) supernova located in the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101). It was first observed on May 19, 2023 by Koichi Itagaki and ...
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Finding the uncertainty in period for String-Length Minimization calculation
I wrote a Python script that calculates the period of an unevenly sampled data set using the String-Length Minimization method.
You can read about that method here: A period-finding method for sparse ...
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Which value of the apparent magnitude do I use from a Supernova light curve
I am trying to get the distance modulus from a light curve of a supernova and obviously the apparent magnitude changes with time. Not only that but there are so many filters with different mags.
So my ...
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How to obtain luminosity distance from a light curve
I have some light curve data of a SN Ia from which I want to find the luminosity distance $D_L$.
How can I do it mathematically?
I'll then try to implement the answer using Python.
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What could successive double dips in the light-curve mean?
I was going through some analysis of the TESS light-curve data and I stumbled upon an interesting example (see below figures, where the blue line is simply a moving average), where the light-curve ...
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How does one actually fold a light curve?
I'm studying the variable stars (periodic variables with brightness changes repeating over time), and to examine the shape of the light curve it is useful to fold the data points at this period and ...
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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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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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What does a fitted curve for the period of a variable star, tell me about the star?
If I have enough data of a variable star to make a light curve for it's whole period, and If I fit a function to that light curve, can that fitted function tell me anything about the properties of ...
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Fourier analysis of exoplanet transit to determine the number of planets in the system
Although I think that this can be done by simply looking at the transit graph, I was wondering if a Fourier transform of a transit (basically transforming transit depth/amplitude vs time graph to ...
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easy curve modeling package for transits that fits the data not just the parameters?
Does anyone have any recommendations for easy-to-use exoplanet transit light curve model fitting packages like batman, but that fits the data, not just the model parameters?
Thank you so much. I need ...
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Gravitational mirroring: Can we theoretically see the Milky Way using a telescope?
As I am watching the beautiful deep field picture of the James Webb Space Telescope. I noticed the gravitational lensing. So I asked myself whether it is possible somehow a successive cluster of ...
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creating asteroid light curves and analysing them
I came across the video Tutorial: Creating a Lightcurve of a Minor Planet linked below by Tycho Tracker, which itself is a software to build an asteroid light curve from raw images and analyse it to ...
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How do I phase fold the light curve for a variable star?
I have some observational data for a star where I've done aperture photometry to get a partial period. I understand that you need to use other techniques to estimate a period for stars whose period is ...
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How do you tell if a variable star is periodic or not by its light curve?
I have light curves for a particular star. I'm able to construct a periodogram of the stars' light curve, a plot of the power of the light curve vs. the signal's period. For a nonperiodic but ...
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Simulating Light Curve with the Timmer & Koenig method in Python
How to simulate the light curve using the Timmer & Koenig method in python with error bars in each counts generated by that method. I have used astro ML but I doesn't show the error in the counts. ...
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Sudden spikes on the light curve of a Quasar from K2 mission
I obtained the optical light curve of 3C 273 QSO from the MAST repository off the K2 mission and plotted it by making the FITS into a CSV file through Pandas dataframe and plotting the obtained ...
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Obtaining the Flux-Time plot for a Quasar
As a follow up question to Obtaining the Light curve of a a Quasar, I wish to know how to obtain a Light curve for a quasar observation like this data set over here.
Is there an archival repository ...
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Obtaining the Light curve of a a Quasar
So, I am relatively comfortable with handling $\textit{FITS}$ files and hence I choose Python for the following operation.
The thing is that I need to analyse some Quasar light curves and hence I went ...
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How to find luminosity from a light curve? [closed]
I am currently trying to find the luminosity from the light curve. I have the data about the distance, counts/sec and the energy range in which it is measured for an object. What equation can be used ...
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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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