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Possible inaccuracies in the determination of periods from short-term time series caused by disregard of the real course of light curves and instrumental trends are documented on the example of the period analysis of simulated TESS-like…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Zdeněk Mikulášek , Marek Skarka

We present nifty-ls, a software package for fast and accurate evaluation of the Lomb-Scargle periodogram. nifty-ls leverages the fact that Lomb-Scargle can be computed using a non-uniform FFT (NUFFT), which we evaluate with the Flatiron…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-13 Lehman H. Garrison , Dan Foreman-Mackey , Yu-hsuan Shih , Alex Barnett

In this paper we propose a novel machine-learning method for anomaly detection applicable to data with periodic characteristics where randomly varying period lengths are explicitly allowed. A multi-dimensional time series analysis is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-22 Lia Ahrens , Julian Ahrens , Hans D. Schotten

We consider the "multi-frequency" periodogram, in which the putative signal is modelled as a sum of two or more sinusoidal harmonics with idependent frequencies. It is useful in the cases when the data may contain several periodic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-30 Roman V. Baluev

Ongoing and future surveys with repeat imaging in multiple bands are producing (or will produce) time-spaced measurements of brightness, resulting in the identification of large numbers of variable sources in the sky. A large fraction of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Abhijit Saha , A. Katherina Vivas

Starspots are cooler and darker than the stellar surface. Therefore, the emitted flux of a star changes when spots are visible on its surface. The presence of spots together with the stellar rotation leads to a periodic modulation on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 A. R. G. Santos , M. S. Cunha , P. P. Avelino , R. A. García , S. Mathur

While the Lomb-Scargle periodogram is foundational to astronomy, it has a significant shortcoming: the variance in the estimated power spectrum does not decrease as more data are acquired. Statisticians have a 60-year history of developing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 Sarah E. Dodson-Robinson , Charlotte Haley

One of the main features of interest in analysing the light curves of stars is the underlying periodic behaviour. The corresponding observations are a complex type of time series with unequally spaced time points and are sometimes…

Applications · Statistics 2022-11-21 Efthymia Derezea , Alfred Kume , Dirk Froebrich

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

Spectral analysis in conjunction with discrete data in one and more dimensions can become a challenging task, because the methods are sometimes difficult to understand. This paper intends to provide an overview about the usage of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-08-01 Martin Seilmayer , Matthias Ratajczak

This paper proposes a new sparse array source enumeration algorithm for underdetermined scenarios with more sources than sensors. The proposed algorithm decomposes the wideband signals into multiple uncorrelated frequency bands, computes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Yang Liu , John R. Buck

Signal decomposition and multiscale signal analysis provide many useful tools for time-frequency analysis. We proposed a random feature method for analyzing time-series data by constructing a sparse approximation to the spectrogram. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-17 Nicholas Richardson , Hayden Schaeffer , Giang Tran

Time series analysis is fundamental to characterizing the variability inherent in multi-wavelength emissions from blazars. However, a major observational challenge lies in the need for well-sampled, temporally uniform data, which is often…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-23 P. Peñil , N. Torres-Albà , A. Rico , S. Buson , M. Ajello , A. Domínguez , S. Adhikari

Astrophysical time series often contain periodic signals. The large and growing volume of time series data from photometric surveys demands computationally efficient methods for detecting and characterizing such signals. The most efficient…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-09 John Hoffman , Jacob Vanderplas , Joel Hartman , Gaspar Bakos

Periodicity analysis of unevenly collected data is a relevant issue in several scientific fields. In astrophysics, for example, we have to find the fundamental period of light or radial velocity curves which are unevenly sampled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Tagliaferri , A. Ciaramella , L. Milano , F. Barone , G. Longo

We present an improvement of the phase distance correlation (PDC) periodogram to account for uncertainties in the time-series data. The PDC periodogram introduced in our previous papers is based on the statistical concept of distance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 Avraham Binnenfeld , Sahar Shahaf , Shay Zucker

This work presents a new variation of the commonly used Least Mean Squares Algorithm (LMS) for the identification of sparse signals with an a-priori known sparsity using a hard threshold operator in every iteration. It examines some useful…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-04 Lampros Flokas , Petros Maragos

Symbolic transfer entropy is a powerful non-parametric tool to detect lead-lag between time series. Because a closed expression of the distribution of Transfer Entropy is not known for finite-size samples, statistical testing is often…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-06-22 Christian Bongiorno , Damien Challet

Sustained oscillations in power systems are dangerous. There are various mechanisms, for instance, limit cycle and forced oscillation, that may lead to sustained oscillations, which nevertheless are hard to differentiate. In this paper, a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Qinye Tang , Xiaozhe Wang