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We present a novel approach for analysing radial velocity data that combines two features: all the planets are searched at once and the algorithm is fast. This is achieved by utilizing compressed sensing techniques, which are modified to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Nathan C. Hara , Gwenaël Boué , Jacques Laskar , Alexandre C. M. Correia

The Slowly Pulsating B-type (SPB) stars are the upper main-sequence stars on the HR diagram. Their oscillations are high-order, low-degree g-mode and can be used to probe the structure of the radiative zone where is near the outer boundary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Tao Wu , Yan Li , Zhen-min Deng

Granulation in the photospheres of FGK-type stars induces variability in absorption lines, complicating exoplanet detection via radial velocities and characterisation via transmission spectroscopy. We aim to quantify the impact of…

When the noise affecting time series is colored with unknown statistics, a difficulty for sinusoid detection is to control the true significance level of the test outcome. This paper investigates the possibility of using training data sets…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Sophia Sulis , David Mary , Lionel Bigot

Astrophysical objects frequently exhibit some irregularities or complex behaviour in their light curves. We focus primarily on hot stars, where both radial and non-radial pulsations are observed. One of the primary research goals is to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Votruba , P. Koubský , D. Korčáková , F. Hroch

Periodic light curve behavior predicted for some binary black hole systems might be detected in large samples, such as the multi-million quasar sample expected from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). We investigate the false-alarm…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-20 David B. Westman , Chelsea L. MacLeod , Zeljko Ivezic

Stellar variability due to magnetic activity and flows at different spatial scales strongly impacts radial velocities. This variability is seen as oscillations, granulation, supergranulation, and meridional flows. The effect of this latter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Nadège Meunier , Anne-Marie Lagrange

The aim of our paper is to investigate the properties of the classical phase-dispersion minimization (PDM), analysis of variance (AOV), string-length (SL), and Lomb-Scargle (LS) power statistics from a statistician's perspective. We confirm…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Naomi Giertych , Ahmed Shaban , Pragya Haravu , Jonathan P Williams

Space observatories such as $\textit{Kepler}$ have provided data that can potentially revolutionise our understanding of stars. Through detailed asteroseismic analyses we are capable of determining fundamental stellar parameters and reveal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-01 Andrés García Saravia Ortiz de Montellano , Saskia Hekker , Nathalie Themeßl

Stars exhibit a bewildering variety of variable behaviors ranging from explosive magnetic flares to stochastically changing accretion to periodic pulsations or rotations. The principal LSST surveys will have cadences too sparse and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-24 Eric D. Feigelson , Frederica Bianco , Sara Bonito

Asteroseismic observations are crucial to constrain stellar models with precision. Bayesian Estimation of STellar Parameters (BESTP) is a tool that utilizes Bayesian statistics and nested sampling Monte Carlo algorithm to search for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-24 Chen Jiang , Laurent Gizon

In this work, we propose a graph-based method implemented on the pulsar timing residuals (PTRs) for stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) detection within the nano-Hertz frequency regime and examining uncertainties of its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 M. Alakhras , S. M. S. Movahed

The estimation of periodicity is a fundamental task in many scientific areas of study. Existing methods rely on theoretical assumptions that the observation times have equal or i.i.d. spacings, and that common estimators, such as the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-01 Panos Toulis , Jacob Bean

We apply the Bayesian framework to assess the presence of a correlation between two quantities. To do so, we estimate the probability distribution of the parameter of interest, $\rho$, characterizing the strength of the correlation. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 P. Figueira , J. P. Faria , V. Zh. Adibekyan , M. Oshagh , N. C. Santos

Our aim is to devise a detection method for exoplanet signatures (multiple sinusoids) that is both powerful and robust to partially unknown statistics under the null hypothesis. In the considered application, the noise is mostly created by…

Applications · Statistics 2021-10-14 Sophia Sulis , David Mary , Lionel Bigot

Bayesian data analysis techniques, together with suitable statistical models, can be used to obtain much more information from noisy data than the traditional frequentist methods. For instance, when searching for periodic signals in noisy…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Mikko Tuomi

Stellar activity can induce signals in the radial velocities of stars, complicating the detection of orbiting low-mass planets. We present a method to determine the number of planetary signals present in radial-velocity datasets of active…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 J. P. Faria , R. D. Haywood , B. J. Brewer , P. Figueira , M. Oshagh , A. Santerne , N. C. Santos

In this paper we describe a Bayesian statistical method designed to infer the magnetic properties of stars observed using high-resolution circular spectropolarimetry in the context of large surveys. This approach is well suited for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 V. Petit , G. A. Wade

We perform extensive Monte Carlo simulations to systematically compare the frequentist and Bayesian treatments of the Lomb--Scargle periodogram. The goal is to investigate whether the Bayesian period search is advantageous over the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Roman V. Baluev

Periodograms are common tools used to search for periodic signals in unevenly spaced time series. The significance of periodogram peaks is often assessed using false alarm probability (FAP), which in most studies assumes uncorrelated noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 J. -B. Delisle , N. Hara , D. Ségransan