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Time Series Analysis in Stingray.jl

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From Stargazing Dreams to Code Stargazing:) Ever since childhood, I have been passionate about the mysteries of the universe . Over time, that passion grew into something more technical — not just looking at the stars, but wanting to understand their signals. This summer, through Google Summer of Code 2025 (GSoC) , I had the opportunity to contribute to Stingray.jl , a Julia library for time series analysis in astronomy. What follows is both a story of my personal journey and an exploration of the science and code I worked on. The Beginning – Switching Languages and First Steps When the organization was announced, I immediately started exploring Stingray (the Python version). I wanted to understand the structure, so I made my first PRs there. Soon, I understood the Stingray a bit, then I started working on  Stingray.jl , the Julia port of Stingray initiated by Aman Pandey in 2022. That meant learning Julia from scratch! Thankfully, Julia was similar to Python in many ways, so I...
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RECIPES RECIPES WHAT KIND OF RECIPES? :)

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  Exploring Light Curve Plotting in Stingray.jl: Recipes and Examples: In my continued work with Stingray.jl , so hello everyone, let's learns about plotting my favorite topic:) Light curves are essential in high-energy astrophysics, as they represent the brightness of an astronomical object as a function of time. Precise visualization and filtering of these curves help astronomers perform accurate timing analysis, detect variability, and identify astrophysical phenomena. This post demonstrates how to generate and customize light curve plots using Stingray.jl , leveraging real NICER datasets. Dataset and Setup: For this demonstration, I used a dataset from NICER-HESRAC-CL.EVT . The first step is to load the event data into an EventList object: julia using Plots events = readevents("ni1200120104_0mpu7_cl.evt", load_gti=true, sort=true) Output: pgsql Found GTI data: 16 intervals GTI time range: 1.3253976595089495e8 to 1.3261337476368216e8 EventList with 212...
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