phot2lc

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

phot2lc is largely inspired by WQED (Thompson & Mullally 2009, 2013), and is currently designed to work with the photometric outputs from MAESTRO (Dalessio 2010, 2013), ccd_hsp (Kanaan et al. 2002), ULTRACAM (Dhillon et al. 2007), and HiPERCAM (Dhillon et al. 2021).

Installation

Current version: PyPI Latest Version

You can install phot2lc with pip:

pip install phot2lc

The phot2lc project can also be found at GitHub and at PyPI.

Requirements

  • python >= 3.11

  • numpy >= 2.4

  • scipy >= 1.17

  • pandas >= 3.0

  • matplotlib >= 3.10

  • PyQt5 >= 5.15

  • astropy >= 7.2

  • photutils >= 2.3

  • lmfit >= 1.3

Package Contents

  • phot2lc – The main light curve extraction program

  • photconfig – Configures some of phot2lc’s defaults

  • weldlc – Welds together multiple light curve files into one

  • quicklook – Generates quicklook plots of light curves and their periodograms

  • addstar – Convenience function for adding new stars to the stars.dat file

Guide