Lightkurve

A friendly package for Kepler & TESS time series analysis in Python.

Documentation: https://docs.lightkurve.org

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Lightkurve is a community-developed, open-source Python package which offers a beautiful and user-friendly way to analyze astronomical flux time series data, in particular the pixels and lightcurves obtained by NASA's Kepler and TESS exoplanet missions.

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This package aims to lower the barrier for students, astronomers, and citizen scientists interested in analyzing Kepler and TESS space telescope data. It does this by providing high-quality building blocks and tutorials which enable both hand-tailored data analyses and advanced automated pipelines.

Documentation

Read the documentation at https://docs.lightkurve.org <https://docs.lightkurve.org>_.

Quickstart

Please visit our quickstart guide at https://docs.lightkurve.org/quickstart.html <https://docs.lightkurve.org/quickstart.html>_.

Contributing

We welcome community contributions! Please read the guidelines at https://docs.lightkurve.org/about/contributing.html <https://docs.lightkurve.org/about/contributing.html>_.

Citing

If you find Lightkurve useful in your research, please cite it and give us a GitHub star! Please read the citation instructions at https://docs.lightkurve.org/about/citing.html <https://docs.lightkurve.org/about/citing.html>_.

Contact

Lightkurve is an open source community project created by the authors <AUTHORS.rst>. The best way to contact us is to open an issue <https://github.com/lightkurve/lightkurve/issues/new> or to e-mail [email protected]. Please include a self-contained example that fully demonstrates your problem or question.