Binning Folded Light curves

[Paco-2000]

Hello - I've been experimenting with the bin() and fold() methods. I'm able to bin and then fold, but it makes the eclipses barely visible due to the significant difference in data points. I was wondering if it's at all possible to do the opposite, fold and then bin, so I would get more data points at the eclipses.

I've tried doing it, but it doesn't seem to be implemented. Is this a feature that could be added in a future update?

[orionlee]

binning folded lightcurve does make sense.

Unfortunately, there is an existing bug on binning folded lightcurve using bins parameter. See issue #1271 .

Alternatives:

1. parameter n_bins should work. See the bin() documentation for the diffeerence.

2. One can also bin using time_bin_size parameter. E.g., the following will bin the folded lightcurve, with each bin has the duration of 10 minutes in the folded time.

from astropy import units as u

lc_b = lc.fold(period=pg.period_at_max_power).bin(time_bin_size=10*u.miin)

3. If it's important to you to have a fixed number of bins, the following is anotherway to approximate it for 500 bins.

lc_f = lc.fold(period=pg.period_at_max_power)
lc_binsize = (lc_f.time.max() - lc_f.time.min()).value / 500
lc_b = lc_f.bin(time_bin_size=lc_binsize)

The binned lightcurve above will have approximately 500 bins, if there is no significant data gap in the data, which is less likely given it's a folded lightcurve.

[Paco-2000]

Awesome, thanks a lot!