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The time stamps returned by awesimsoss are the ones at the end of each frame-read. However, the code should return time-stamps which are at the middle of each frame-read (in theory it should be the time weighted by the flux during a frame-read, but this is not possible to measure).
The middle time-stamps are, I believe, the most representative time for a given frame-read. The easiest way to see this is in the limiting case in which you only have two out-of-transit baseline points and one point taken exactly in-transit. Imagine a transit lasts a frame-time; then, I believe it makes sense for the in-transit point to have the middle of the time spent reading the data and not the time stamp at the end of the frame-time in order for that dataset to make sense.
This is also important for users that want to sample "real" transit lightcurves accounting for, e.g., the finite frame-read times which would smear out the transit lightcurves at the end. It is assumed in these supersampling schemes (see, e.g., https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.3741) that the time-stamps are in the middle of the read. batman also assumes the same to perform supersampling (https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~lkreidberg/batman/tutorial.html#supersampling).
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awesimsoss time-stamps give the end of the frame-reads and not the middle time-stamps
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awesimsoss time-stamps give the end of the frame-reads and not the middle time-stamps
awesimsoss time-stamps give the end of the frame-reads and not the middle
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The time stamps returned by
awesimsoss
are the ones at the end of each frame-read. However, the code should return time-stamps which are at the middle of each frame-read (in theory it should be the time weighted by the flux during a frame-read, but this is not possible to measure).The middle time-stamps are, I believe, the most representative time for a given frame-read. The easiest way to see this is in the limiting case in which you only have two out-of-transit baseline points and one point taken exactly in-transit. Imagine a transit lasts a frame-time; then, I believe it makes sense for the in-transit point to have the middle of the time spent reading the data and not the time stamp at the end of the frame-time in order for that dataset to make sense.
This is also important for users that want to sample "real" transit lightcurves accounting for, e.g., the finite frame-read times which would smear out the transit lightcurves at the end. It is assumed in these supersampling schemes (see, e.g., https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.3741) that the time-stamps are in the middle of the read.
batman
also assumes the same to perform supersampling (https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~lkreidberg/batman/tutorial.html#supersampling).The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: