phot2lc

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

Much of the inspiration for this program came from the WQED light curve extraction software, but phot2lc includes several new features and the ease of installation that comes with pure-Python programs.

Installation

phot2lc can be installed with:

$ pip install phot2lc

Documentation for phot2lc can be found at phot2lc.readthedocs.io

Main Features

• Comparison star selection
• Aperture size selection
• Polynomial detrending
• Sigma clipping
• Manual data point removal
• Barycentric time corrections

Requirements:

• Python 3.6 (or later)
• matplotlib 3.1.3 (or later)
• Astropy 4.0 (or later)
• LMFIT 1.0.1