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Measures of Variance on Windowed Gaussian Processes

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2022-12-22 v1

Abstract

The variance and fractional variance on a fixed time window (variously known as "rms percent" or "modulation index") are commonly used to characterize the variability of astronomical sources. We summarize properties of this statistic for a Gaussian process.

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@article{arxiv.2212.10684,
  title  = {Measures of Variance on Windowed Gaussian Processes},
  author = {Daeyoung Lee and Charles F. Gammie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.10684},
  year   = {2022}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure, submitted to RNAAS

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