Turbo-Fats

Based on the Feature Analysis for Time Series FATS package, adds performance improvements and new features.

ALeRCE extension of the FATS library, based on https://github.com/isadoranun/FATS and https://github.com/jonwihl/FATS-2.0, both under MIT Licence.

This library is meant for ALeRCE internal use only. If you want to compute light curve features please check https://github.com/alercebroker/lc_classifier which is a more complete and well documented library.

The description of the new features is available in Alert Classification for the ALeRCE Broker System: The Light Curve Classifier https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03311

Installing Turbo Fats

We recommend installing turbofats from this repository

  git clone https://github.com/alercebroker/turbo-fats.git
  cd turbo-fats

To install turbofats we recommend first installing some dependencies

  pip install numpy Cython

This dependencies are used by one of turbofats requirements, then we can install the other packages and finally turbofats as development.

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  pip install -e .