1. Home
  2. Forums
  3. About the AAVSO
  4. VStar

feature request - plugin for QLP light curves

Fri, 08/27/2021 - 02:47

Hi David and All,

The MIT Quick Look Pipeline (QLP) provides light curves from TESS full frame images for some 10 million stars at 30 minute cadence. These will be a treasure trove for anyone interested in variable stars or exoplanet transits.

The data is available from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) but VStar currently does not have a plugin to open and display these light curves. I wonder if you or one of the other programmers might like to give it a go?

A paper describing the file format can be downloaded from the arXiv database:

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2020RNAAS...4..204H/EPRINT_PDF

I suspect the existing Kepler/TESS FITS File v2.2 plugin could be adapted to work with the QLP files. Cheers,

Mark

 

David Benn
Affiliation
Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)
Fri, 08/27/2021 - 11:29
TESS Quick Look Pipeline (QLP) plugin

Hi Mark

This plugin actually does exist. It was developed by Maksym Pyatnytskyy (Max) and is available via the Plugin Manager.

See https://www.aavso.org/vstar-plugin-library#TESS

Let us know if you have further questions about it.

David