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Add support for Barycentric Julian Date #108

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vterron opened this issue Mar 7, 2020 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #109
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Add support for Barycentric Julian Date #108

vterron opened this issue Mar 7, 2020 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #109

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vterron commented Mar 7, 2020

This is the BJD_TDB FITS keyword. It's a non-standard keyword but commonly used for exoplanets.

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vterron commented Mar 7, 2020

We'll need the function bjd2utc(), as the input FITS images will use Barycentric Julian Date while LEMON works internally with seconds after the Unix epoch.

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vterron commented Apr 10, 2020

From Achieving Better Than 1 Minute Accuracy in the Heliocentric and Barycentric Julian Dates:

The biggest source of confusion comes from the fact that time standards and reference frames are independent from one another, even though there are many overlapping concepts between the two. We will use the following terminology: “reference frame” will refer to the geometric location from which one could measure time – different reference frames differ by the light-travel time between them; “time standard” will refer to the way a particular clock ticks and its arbitrary zero point, as defined by international standards; and “time stamp” is the combination of the two, and determines the timing accuracy of the event.

This is a nice article.

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