wuvars-proto

WUVARS is a set of software tools developed to access, process, analyze, and visualize time-series photometry from UKIRT's WFCAM instrument, after being processed through the WFCAM Science Archive.

The primary software modules are located in the tr/ subdirectory.

A description of the main modules: tr/plot2.py, tr/plot3.py - used to visualize lightcurves
tr/scargle.py - performs Lomb-Scargle Periodogram analysis tr/chi2.py - interfaces with Palmer's Fast Chi-Squared frequency analysis tr/spreadsheet.py - calculates statistics of photometry & variability for lists of stars tr/stetson.py - calculates the Stetson variability index tr/robust.py - calculates Robust statistics tr/timing.py - implements a filter for periodogram frequencies tr/tr_helpers.py - contains a number of helper functions used in the above packages (also see tr/helpers3.py) tr/super.py - a set of magic functions that make very many figures and plots simultaneously.

WUVARS is written in Python, heavily using the NumPy, Matplotlib, and ATpy packages.

Created in 2010-2012 by Tom Rice (t.rice90@gmail.com).

README last updated 19 June 2012.