[PRE REVIEW]: lightcurver: A Python pipeline for precise photometry of multiple-epoch wide-field images

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Submitting author: !--author-handle-->@duxfrederic<!--end-author-handle-- (Frédéric Dux) Repository: https://github.com/duxfrederic/lightcurver Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): paper Version: v1.0.3 Editor: !--editor-->@ivastar<!--end-editor-- Reviewers: @Onoddil, @robertfwilson Managing EiC: Dan Foreman-Mackey

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Software report:

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Commit count by author:

   119  Frédéric Dux

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 1101

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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License info:

🔴 Failed to discover a valid open source license

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@editorialbot set main as branch

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Done! branch is now main

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@editorialbot check repository

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.21105/joss.05340 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2402.08725 is OK
- 10.1051/0004-6361/201629272 is OK
- 10.3847/25c2cfeb.d8909f28 is OK
- 10.1051/0004-6361/201322068 is OK
- 10.1088/0004-6256/139/5/1782 is OK
- 10.5281/ZENODO.1482018 is OK
- 10.1086/323894 is OK
- 10.21105/joss.00058 is OK
- 10.1051/aas:1996164 is OK
- 10.3847/1538-3881/aafc33 is OK
- 10.3847/1538-4357/ac7c74 is OK
- 10.1086/305187 is OK
- 10.1093/mnras/sty911 is OK
- 10.5281/ZENODO.5597138 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: legacypipe: Image reduction pipeline for the DESI ...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: COSMOULINE
- No DOI given, and none found for title: HDF: The hierarchical data format
- No DOI given, and none found for title: PyEphem: Astronomical Ephemeris for Python

INVALID DOIs

- None

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Software report:

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Commit count by author:

   156  Frédéric Dux

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Paper file info:

⚠️ Failed to find a paper file in https://github.com/duxfrederic/lightcurver (branch: main)

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License info:

🟡 License found: GNU General Public License v3.0 (Check here for OSI approval)

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@editorialbot set paper as branch

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Done! branch is now paper

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@duxfrederic — Thanks for your submission! All the suitable JOSS editors are currently working at capacity so I'm going to "waitlist" this review until an editor with the relevant expertise is available to take it on. Thanks for your patience!

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Hi @dfm,

thanks a lot for looking into this so promptly. No worries, I understand you're dealing with a lot of submissions at the moment!

edit: Ah, I see that the queue of waitlisted papers in track 1 is steadily shrinking. So I looked into the list of potential reviewers, filtered by: area of expertise in python and astronomy, with the "photometry" keyword. I see two people who might be interested in reviewing this code base: tddesjardins and Onoddil.

edit2: looking at the "any original result should be reproducible by the reviewers" checklist item, I might remove the illustration plot from the paper as the data necessary for this are voluminous (around 50 GB) and will be private 3 more months. It would also take around 10-20 CPU hours to reduce them, not convenient (1h with a GPU). I can also provide the data reduced to a certain point by the pipeline, leaving only the last steps that the reviewers might want to run.

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