Tutorial

• 1. Generalities
  • 1.1. The documentation
  • 1.2. Importing PyCS3
  • 1.3. Interacting with PyCS3
  • 1.4. Nomenclature
  • 1.5. About dates : JD, MJD, HJD, …
• 2. The lightcurve object
  • 2.1. Importing lightcurves
    • 2.1.1. Importing from cosmouline/lcmanip or similar rdb files
    • 2.1.2. A note about object instance names
    • 2.1.3. Importing from simple tab-separated files
    • 2.1.4. Set some plotcolour !
  • 2.2. Plotting lightcurves
  • 2.3. Manually shifting lightcurves in time, magnitude, and flux
  • 2.4. Displaying info about lightcurves
  • 2.5. About “properties”
  • 2.6. Cutting seasons
  • 2.7. Copying lightcurves
  • 2.8. Masking points
    • 2.8.1. Buiding a mask “by hand”
  • 2.9. Merging lightcurves
  • 2.10. Writing and reading pickles
  • 2.11. Writing lightcurves into rdb/ascii files
• 3. Matching telescopes
  • 3.1. A note about flux shifts
  • 3.2. Matching lightcurves from different telescopes
• 4. First steps with microlensing
  • 4.1. Adding ML to your lightcurve
  • 4.2. Fun with ML
• 5. Curve shifting, finally
  • 5.1. The spline optimizer
  • 5.2. The regdiff optimizer
• 6. Drawing mock curves
  • 6.1. Drawing individual curves
  • 6.2. Adding some noise
  • 6.3. Choosing your own shifts
  • 6.4. Randomizing the microlensing
  • 6.5. Checking spline residuals
  • 6.6. Building sets of mock curves
  • 6.7. Displaying some curves drawn with multidraw
• 7. Getting delay histograms and results
  • 7.1. Generalities
  • 7.2. Run curve shifting algorithms on the mock curves
  • 7.3. Parallel computing
  • 7.4. Analysing the measurement results
• 8. Tips and Tricks, code snippets
  • 8.1. Which PyCS am I using ?
  • 8.2. “Faking” PyCS3 delay or error measurements
  • 8.3. Building scrolling plots for long curves
  • 8.4. Tweaking magnitudes for individual seasons
  • 8.5. Playing with custom properties
  • 8.6. Splitting a curve by properties
  • 8.7. Correcting for flux sharing