lightkurve.io.kepler.read_kepler_lightcurve#
- lightkurve.io.kepler.read_kepler_lightcurve(filename, flux_column='pdcsap_flux', quality_bitmask='default')[source]#
Returns a Kepler
LightCurve
.- Parameters
- filenamestr
Local path or remote url of a Kepler light curve FITS file.
- flux_column‘pdcsap_flux’ or ‘sap_flux’
Which column in the FITS file contains the preferred flux data?
- quality_bitmaskstr or int
Bitmask (integer) which identifies the quality flag bitmask that should be used to mask out bad cadences. If a string is passed, it has the following meaning:
“none”: no cadences will be ignored (
quality_bitmask=0
).“default”: cadences with severe quality issues will be ignored (
quality_bitmask=1130799
).“hard”: more conservative choice of flags to ignore (
quality_bitmask=1664431
). This is known to remove good data.“hardest”: removes all data that has been flagged (
quality_bitmask=2096639
). This mask is not recommended.
See the
KeplerQualityFlags
class for details on the bitmasks.