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.
Cite
@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