A Python program that analyzes 3D FITS images (with the time parameter) from the Spitzer Telescope and outputs a light-curve (Brightness vs Time) of a certain star, enabling the detection of transiting exoplanets in front of the star using the Astropy and Matplotlib libraries.
The program relies on two important libraries :
- Astropy - Python Library for Astronomy applications
- Matplotlib - A plotting library
python FITSpitzer.py /directory/inputfile.fits /directory/output.pdf
The IRAC provides a dataset containing 10 Spitzer observations of XO-3b.
You can select the dataset of your choice from the IPAC (Infrared Processing and Analysis Center) servers
- Include PDF generation of the light-curves
- Work on the GUI
- Implement automatic FITS files download from the IRSA (InfraRed Science Archive)
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