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SunPy lightcurve

Overview

One of core classes in SunPy is a LightCurve or timeseries. A number of instruments are supported through subclasses of the base ~sunpy.lightcurve.LightCurve class. To see lc-sources for a list of all of them.

Creating a LightCurve

LightCurves can either be creating manually or automatically by downloading their own data (the most common case). Too create a custom ~sunpy.lightcurve.LightCurve see the example in the class documentation below. Subclasses of ~sunpy.lightcurve.LightCurve for specific instrument provide their own methods for downloading their data. For more information see lc-sources.

Instrument LightCurve Classes

The generic method to create an instrument-specific LightCurve find the instrument subclass of interest and follow the following example:

>>> from sunpy.lightcurve import GOESLightCurve
>>> from sunpy.time import TimeRange
>>> tr = TimeRange('2013/07/21', '2013/07/22')
>>> goes = GOESLightCurve.create(tr)

The ~sunpy.lightcurve.LightCurve.create method will go off and download the data needed to populate the instance. The following instrument classes are supported.

sunpy.lightcurve