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sunkit-instruments

v0.6.2
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Concise Description
A SunPy-affiliated package for solar instrument-specific tools.
Description
sunkit-instruments is a SunPy-affiliated package for solar instrument-specific tools. Its purpose is not to be a repository for all tools for all instruments. Instead it is intended to perform three main roles: (1) Hold instrument tools that are so few they do not warrant their own package; (2) Hold tools for instruments with no instrument team or the instrument team does not currently support solar applications; (3) Act as an incubator for instrument-specific tools that can evolve into a separate instrument package, backed by an instrument team. The package currently provides tools for GOES-XRS, Fermi/GBM, PROBA2/LYRA, RHESSI, and GOES/SUVI instruments, including data processing, calibration, instrument response calculations, and visualization capabilities.
Authors
Alex Hamilton
Will Barnes ( American University , Department of Physics, American University , Goddard Space Flight Center , United States Naval Research Laboratory )
Samuel Bennett ( Aperio Software Ltd. , University of Sheffield )
Pritish Chakraborty ( Manav Rachna University )
Michael Charlton
Nitin Choudhary ( Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur )
Steven Christe ( Goddard Space Flight Center )
Nabil Freij ( Bay Area Environmental Research Institute , Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory , SETI Institute )
Laura Hayes ( Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies , European Space Research and Technology Centre )
Keith Hughitt ( Center for Cancer Research , National Institutes of Health )
Jack Ireland ( Goddard Space Flight Center )
Daniel F. Ryan ( Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London , University College London )
Yash Jain ( Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur )
Silvan Laube
Andrew J. Leonard ( Aperio Software Ltd. )
Larry Manley
Carlos Molina ( SUGUS-GNULinux )
Stuart J. Mumford ( Aperio Software Ltd. , University of Sheffield )
Asish Panda
David Pérez-Suárez ( University College London )
Rishabh Sharma
Albert Y. Shih ( Goddard Space Flight Center )
Brigitta Sipőcz ( DIRAC Institute, University of Washington , Infrared Processing and Analysis Center )
David Stansby ( Advanced Research Computing Centre, University College London, UK , Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London , Imperial College London , Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London , University College London )
Daniel Williams ( School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Glasgow , University of Glasgow )
Andrew Inglis ( Catholic University of America , Goddard Space Flight Center )
Vishnunarayan K I.
Simon Liedtke
Functionality
Data Processing and Analysis File Format Conversion Calibration Data Access and Retrieval Time Series Analysis Image Processing Mission-related Instrument Response Instrumentation Data Visualization Line Plots
Technical Details
Programming Languages Python 3.x
Operating Systems Linux Mac Operating System Independent Windows
CPU Architecture CPU Independent
Development Status Active
Publication Date Apr 02, 2020
Publisher Zenodo
Data & File Formats
Data Sources Observatory/Mission-specific
Input Formats ascii FITS HDF5 netCDF3/4
Output Formats csv
Science Context
Related Instruments Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager Solar Ultraviolet Imager Solar Ultraviolet Imager Solar Ultraviolet Imager Solar Ultraviolet Imager Solar X-ray Monitor on GOES 5 Solar X-ray Monitor on GOES 6 Solar X-ray Monitor on GOES 7 Solar X-ray Monitor on GOES 8 Solar X-ray Sensor on GOES Solar X-ray Sensor on GOES Solar X-ray Sensor on GOES Sun Watcher using APS detectors and image Processing
Related Observatories Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 13 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 14 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 15 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 16 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 17 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 18 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 19 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 5 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 6 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 7 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 8 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites PROBA 2 Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscope Imager
Related Phenomena Coronal Heating Solar Flares X-ray emission
Related Regions Solar Environment
Keywords
calibration emission measure fermi flare detection goes instrumentation instrument response lyra pyhc package rhessi solar suvi temperature response wavelength response
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Related Publications

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-005-2445-z
https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/702/1/791

Related Software

https://github.com/HinodeXRT/xrtpy
https://github.com/LM-SAL/aiapy
https://github.com/LM-SAL/irispy
https://github.com/USNavalResearchLaboratory/eispac
https://github.com/sunpy/sunpy

Interoperable Software

https://github.com/astropy/astropy
https://github.com/sunpy/sunpy
Licensing & Funding
License BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
Version Information
Current Version v0.6.2
Release Date Jul 10, 2025
Version DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15852260
Release Notes
Updating the maximum supported GOES satellite to GOES 19 for the temperature and emission measure calculation. Updated GOES event list to account for change in the HEK results from sunpy 7.0.
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