Questions tagged [light-curve]
Questions about the time-dependence of the light intensity of a celestial object or region.
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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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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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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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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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How to recognize exoplanet transit
I am using Python package lightkurve for exoplanets searching by the transit method. When I download light curve of some star and apply periodogram, I find frequency and power of periodic components ...
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