SunPy timeseries¶

Overview¶

One of the core classes in SunPy is a timeseries. A number of instruments are supported through subclasses of the base GenericTimeSeries class. To see Instrument TimeSeries Classes for a list of all of them.

Creating a TimeSeries¶

TimeSeries can either be created manually or from source files using the factory. To create a custom GenericTimeSeries see the example in the class documentation below. Subclasses of GenericTimeSeries for specific instruments provide their own methods for opening files for their data. For more information see Instrument TimeSeries Classes.

Instrument TimeSeries Classes¶

The generic method to create an instrument-specific TimeSeries is to call the TimeSeries factory on a file from that dataset and pass the source keyword argument. Some sources use FITS files and these may define the source class themselves, in this case the TimeSeries factory can determine the source implicitly, but it’s good practice to explicitly state it. The following example shows the factory loading a sample file:

>>> import sunpy.timeseries as ts
>>> import sunpy.data.sample  
>>> goes = ts.TimeSeries(sunpy.data.sample.GOES_XRS_TIMESERIES, source='XRS')  

The TimeSeries factory will load the file and create the timeseries instance. The following instrument classes are supported.