Time Series Tool: Overview

Contents of page/chapter:
+Purpose of Tool
+Terminology
+Data Sets Accepted
+Documentation Contents

 

Purpose of Tool

The Time Series Tool allows exploration and analysis of time series observations.

For WISE/NEOWISE and PTF/ZTF, you can view measurements as a function of time, simultaneously visualize the single-epoch images, and optionally find the period of variability. For other data sets, visualization of the single-epoch images is not currently available, but period analysis is available.

Terminology

The words in blue rectangles at the top of the screen are "tabs" :

Your browser window is divided into "panes", like "window panes." The contents of the panes depends on what you are doing with the tool, but could include a pane that includes a set of images, a pane that has the catalog used for the time series, and/or a plot pane. You can expand any of the window panes by clicking on the expand icon:

Each of the 'panes' in the display has its own toolbox in its upper right corner which operates on things in that pane, and the basic functionality for each of these panes is covered elsewhere in this document:

After loading a light curve, you are in the "Viewer." From the Viewer, you can launch the "Period Finder" to set a period. After you set a period, you return to the "Viewer."

Data Sets Accepted

For WISE/NEOWISE and PTF/ZTF, you can view measurements as a function of time, simultaneously visualize the single-epoch images, and optionally find the period of variability.

Note that WISE/NEOWISE light curves obtained from IRSA have two times of interest:

For other data sets, visualization of the single-epoch images is not currently available, but period analysis is available.

Documentation Contents

This documentation covers things in the order in which you are likely to encounter them in the Time Series Tool:

Basic information such as how to interact with images in general, tables in general, and plots in general is covered elsewhere in this document.