pyketools 3.0b1

Documentation

Documentation is hosted at pyke.readthedocs.io.

What’s new in PyKE v3? (July 2017)

PyKE3 is the latest generation of the Kepler/K2/TESS toolkit. It provides the following key improvements:

• PyKE is now a true Python package installable via pip;

• tasks are now added to the path as unix-style command-line tools;

• both Python 2 and 3 are now supported;

• PyKE no longer depends on PyRAF and is TESS-ready.

Example use

With PyKE, you can directly visualize frames from a target pixel file. For example, let’s visualize the frame number 100 for target KIC008462852 (a.k.a. Taby’s Star):

$ kepmask kplr008462852-2013098041711_lpd-targ.fits.gz 100 --maskfile tabystar.txt

kepmask is an interactive tool that allows one to create an arbitrary aperture mask which can be subsequently be used in another pyke tool, such as kepextract.

kepextract performs simple aperture photometry in the pixels given by the mask created by kepmask:

$ kepextract kplr008462852-2013098041711_lpd-targ.fits.gz tabys-lc.fits --maskfile tabystar.txt

To visualize the light curve, you may want to use kepdraw:

$ kepdraw taby-lc.fits

Installation

If you have a working version of Python 2 or 3 on your system (we recommend Anaconda Python), you can simply install the latest stable release of PyKE using pip:

$ pip install pyketools

Alternatively, if you want to experiment with the latest development version of PyKE, you can install it straight from GitHub:

$ git clone https://github.com/KeplerGO/PyKE.git
$ cd PyKE
$ pip install -e .

Note: PyKE version 2 and older, which was in use between 2012 and 2016 and required PyRAF, is available in the branch py27-pyraf. If you want to use PyKE2 within PyRAF, we recommend getting it through the AstroConda channel.

Acknowledgement

If you find this code useful in your research, please consider citing:

Title: PyKE: Reduction and analysis of Kepler Simple Aperture Photometry data
Authors: Still, Martin; Barclay, Tom
Publication: Astrophysics Source Code Library, record ascl:1208.004
Publication Date: 08/2012

This package is developed by Martin Still, Tom Barclay, Ze Vinicius, Geert Barentsen, Michael Gully-Santiago, Ann Marie Cody, and Christine Hedges for the Kepler/K2 GO Office.

Contributing

Users are welcome to open issues or pull requests. You can also contact the development team via keplergo@mail.arc.nasa.gov