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We review methodologies currently available to interprete time series of high-resolution high-S/N spectroscopic data of pulsating stars in terms of the kind of (non-radial) modes that are excited. We illustrate the drastic improvement of…

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We have generated accurate V and I template light curves using a combination of Fourier decomposition and principal component analysis for a large sample of Cepheid light curves. Unlike previous studies, we include short period Cepheids and…

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Discoveries of RR Lyrae and Cepheid variable stars with multiple modes of pulsation have increased tremendously in recent years. The Fourier spectra of these stars can be quite complicated due to the large number of combination frequencies…

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We have shown previously that a broad correlation between the peak radio luminosity and the variability time-scales, approximately L ~ t^5, exists for variable synchrotron emitting sources and that different classes of astrophysical source…

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Recent studies have demonstrated that correntropy is an efficient tool for analyzing higher-order statistical moments in nonGaussian noise environments. Although it has been used with complex data, some adaptations were then necessary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-16 João P. F. Guimarães , Aluisio I. R. Fontes , Joilson B. A. Rego , Allan de M. Martins

The Fourier spectral techniques that are common in Astronomy for analyzing periodic or multi-periodic light-curves lose their usefulness when they are applied to unsteady light-curves. We review some of the novel techniques that have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 J. Robert Buchler , Zoltan Kollath

The exact period determination of a multi-periodic variable star based on its luminosity time series data is believed a task requiring skill and experience. Thus the majority of available time series analysis techniques require human…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 K. Y. Shaju , Piet Reegen , Ramesh Babu Thayyullathil

Period estimation is one of the central topics in astronomical time series analysis, where data is often unevenly sampled. Especially challenging are studies of stellar magnetic cycles, as there the periods looked for are of the order of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 N. Olspert , J. Pelt , M. J. Käpylä , J. Lehtinen

Time-correlated noise is a significant source of uncertainty when modeling exoplanet light-curve data. A correct assessment of correlated noise is fundamental to determine the true statistical significance of our findings. Here we review…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Patricio Cubillos , Joseph Harrington , Thomas J. Loredo , Nate B. Lust , Jasmina Blecic , Madison Stemm

Astronomical data are typically irregular in time, e.g. the space (HIPPARCOS/TYCHO, KEPLER, GAIA, WISE etc.) and ground-based CCD (NSVS, ASAS, CRTS, SuperWASP etc.) and photographic (Harvard, Sonneberg, Odessa etc.) photometrical surveys.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-05 Ivan L. Andronov

Quantitative helio- and asteroseismology require very precise measurements of the frequencies, amplitudes, and lifetimes of the global modes of stellar oscillation. It is common knowledge that the precision of these measurements depends on…

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We present a method that utilizes autocorrelation functions from long-term precision broadband differential light curves to estimate the average lifetimes of starspot groups for two large sample of Kepler stars: stars with and without…

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We present an analytic model of the lightcurve variation for stars with non-evolving starspots on a differentially rotating surface. The Fourier coefficients of the harmonics of the rotation period are expressed in terms of the latitude of…

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Temporal analysis of blazar flux is a powerful tool to draw inferences about the emission processes and physics of these sources. In the most general case, the available light curves are irregularly sampled and influenced by gaps, and in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-10 Stefano Covino , Marco Landoni , Angela Sandrinelli , Aldo Treves

In Patil et. al 2024a, we developed a multitaper power spectrum estimation method, mtNUFFT, for analyzing time-series with quasi-regular spacing, and showed that it not only improves upon the statistical issues of the Lomb-Scargle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Aarya A. Patil , Gwendolyn M. Eadie , Joshua S. Speagle , David J. Thomson

We analyse 829,481 stars from the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) to extract variability periods. We utilise a generalisation of the autocorrelation function (the G-ACF), which applies to irregularly sampled time series data. We…

Research into light curves from stars (temporal variation of brightness) has completely changed how exoplanets are discovered or characterised. This study including star light curves from the Kepler dataset as a way to discover exoplanets…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Krishna Chamarthy

The first step when investigating time varying data is the detection of any reliable changes in star brightness. This step is crucial to decreasing the processing time by reducing the number of sources processed in later, slower steps.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 C. E. Ferreira Lopes , N. J. G. Cross

We present period measurements of a large sample of field stars in the solar neighbourhood, observed by CoRoT in two different directions of the Galaxy. The presence of a period was detected using the Scargle Lomb Normalized Periodogram…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Laura Affer , Giuseppina Micela , Fabio Favata , Ettore Flaccomio

We improved the discless accretion models of Wynn \& King, considering the effects of the changing aspect due to the white dwarf spin and the variable feeding intensity caused by the asynchronism, and set up a more general spot model which…

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