Additions to `Lightcurve` class

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We had a very informative discussion at the Python in Astronomy meeting today, and one thing that came up was the functionality of the Lightcurve class. I think some of these things currently live in pull requests, but I’m adding them here for completeness.

Rebin (including recalculating uncertainties)
Time index column both middle of bin and bin edges
Time shifting/frame conversion (is there a WCS standard for time?)
Sort itself
Truncate
concatenate (add two together)
Interpolate to new time stamps
add/subtract light curves from one another
Metadata (need to keep some information about energy ranges etc)
Regions of interest (in the light curve) or masks?
Values need units and uncertainties
Plot itself
Support for variable time bin sizes
optional attribute or method for sky background

All of these are open for discussion.

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nithinsingh61commented, Mar 23, 2016

They surely don’t belong to Lightcurve class , but we shouldn’t be limiting ourselves to linear or spline interpolation . fitting function ( numpy.polyfit , scipy.optimize.curve_fit ) can serve our purpose @dhuppenkothen

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dhuppenkothencommented, Mar 23, 2016

@usmanwardag @nithinsingh61 Predicting time steps outside the start/end times of the time series would be technically extremely challenging, and again depend very strongly on the astrophysical source observed to create the time series. I’d probably not try to implement this here.

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