Vision of the pySYD project

The NASA space telescopes Kepler, K2 and TESS have recently provided very large databases of high-precision light curves of stars. By detecting brightness variations due to stellar oscillations, these light curves allow the application of asteroseismology to large numbers of stars, which requires automated software tools to efficiently extract observables.

Several tools have been developed for asteroseismic analyses, but many of them are closed-source and therefore inaccessible to the general astronomy community. Some open-source tools exist, but they are either optimized for smaller samples of stars or have not yet been extensively tested against closed-source tools.

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We’ve attempted to collect these tools in a single place for easy comparisons. Please let us know if we’ve somehow missed yours – we would be happy to add it!