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Light curve simulations à la Emmanoulopoulos+13 #158

Open dhuppenkothen opened 7 years ago

dhuppenkothen commented 7 years ago

As a future enhancement, it would be useful to have the methods by Emmanoulopoulos et al, 2013 implemented, which allows simulations of light curves with a specific power spectral shape and a specific flux distribution, as compared to Timmer+Koenig 1995, which always assumes a Gaussian flux distribution.

cnachi commented 7 years ago

@dhuppenkothen : As I had mentioned I would be very happy to help here as I have some written codes on this. What do you use for the LC simulations currently ?

dhuppenkothen commented 7 years ago

We'd love your help! At the moment, we're using Timmer+Koenig 1995, but I think having an implementation of the Emmanoulopoulos (2013 ?) paper would be super useful.

dhuppenkothen commented 7 years ago

There might be a chance we might be able to incorporate this project (with appropriate citation + references, of course), which should adding this feature much easier: https://github.com/samconnolly/DELightcurveSimulation

cnachi commented 7 years ago

You mean by absorbing this as a sub program of Stingray ?

dhuppenkothen commented 7 years ago

Currently on travel, so slow to respond. Yes, that's essentially what I mean. Or at least pull out the parts and modify them so that they work with existing Stingray functionality.