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Asteroseismic time-series data have imprints of stellar oscillation modes, whose detection and characterization through time-series analysis allows us to probe stellar interior physics. Such analyses usually occur in the Fourier domain by…

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

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

Gravity modes in main-sequence stars have traditionally been studied using a prewhitening approach, which iteratively identifies modes in the Fourier domain and subsequently tunes their frequencies, amplitudes, and phases through…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 Aarya A. Patil , Conny Aerts , Nikki Y. N. Wang , Jordan Van Beeck , May G. Pedersen

Nonuniformly sampled signals are prevalent in real-world applications. However, estimating their power spectra from finite samples poses a significant challenge. The optimal solution-Bronez Generalized Prolate Spheroidal Sequence (GPSS) by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Jie Cui , Benjamin H. Brinkmann , Gregory A. Worrell

The presence of interharmonics in power systems can lead to asynchronous sampling, a phenomenon further aggravated by shifts in the fundamental frequency, which significantly degrades the accuracy of power measurements. Under such…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Jian Liu , Wei Zhao , Jianting Zhao , Shisong Li

Measurements of line-of-sight dependent clustering via the galaxy power spectrum's multipole moments constitute a powerful tool for testing theoretical models in large-scale structure. Recent work shows that this measurement, including a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Nick Hand , Yin Li , Zachary Slepian , Uros Seljak

Accurate time series analysis is essential for studying variable astronomical sources, where detecting periodicities and characterizing power spectral density (PSD) are crucial. The Lomb-Scargle periodogram, commonly used in astronomy for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Ezequiel Albentosa-Ruiz , Nicola Marchili

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

This paper discusses a fast algorithm for analyzing the phases of a multi-tone phase calibration signal. The multi-tone method is superior to its single-tone counterpart. The PCal signal is a wide-band frequency comb derived from an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-13 Jan Wagner , Sergei Pogrebenko

We develop a method for the multifractal characterization of nonstationary time series, which is based on a generalization of the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA). We relate our multifractal DFA method to the standard partition…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-07 Jan W. Kantelhardt , Stephan A. Zschiegner , Eva Koscielny-Bunde , Armin Bunde , Shlomo Havlin , H. Eugene Stanley

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Thorsten Stahn , Laurent Gizon

In this work, we present a new technique for the decomposition of multivariate data, which we call Multivariate Fast Iterative Filtering (MvFIF) algorithm. We study its properties, proving rigorously that it converges in finite time when…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Antonio Cicone , Enza Pellegrino

Owing to technological advances, the number of exoplanets discovered has risen dramatically in the last few years. However, when trying to observe Earth analogs, it is often difficult to test the veracity of detection. We have developed a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-06 Sahil Agarwal , Fabio Del Sordo , John S. Wettlaufer

We introduce and test several novel approaches for periodicity detection in unevenly-spaced sparse datasets. Specifically, we examine five different kinds of periodicity metrics, which are based on non-parametric measures of serial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-07 Shay Zucker

Time-frequency analysis (TFA) techniques play an important role in the field of machine fault diagnosis attributing to their superiority in dealing with nonstationary signals. Synchroextracting transform (SET) and transient-extracting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Yunlong Ma , Gang Yu , Tianran Lin , Qingtang Jiang

This paper introduces the multiband periodogram, a general extension of the well-known Lomb-Scargle approach for detecting periodic signals in time-domain data. In addition to advantages of the Lomb-Scargle method such as treatment of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Jacob T. VanderPlas , Zeljko Ivezic

Thomson's multitaper method estimates the power spectrum of a signal from $N$ equally spaced samples by averaging $K$ tapered periodograms. Discrete prolate spheroidal sequences (DPSS) are used as tapers since they provide excellent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Santhosh Karnik , Justin Romberg , Mark A. Davenport

We address the problem of assessing the statistical significance of candidate periodicities found using the so-called `multi-harmonic' periodogram, which is being used for detection of non-sinusoidal signals, and is based on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-12 Roman V. Baluev

Real-time frequency measurement for non-repetitive and statistically rare signals are challenging problems in the electronic measurement area, which places high demands on the bandwidth, sampling rate, data processing and transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Ruiyuan Ming , Peng Ye , Kuojun Yang , Zhixiang Pan , ChenYang Li , Chuang Huang

Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (MFDFA) is a powerful and widely used technique for characterizing the scaling properties and long-range correlations of complex time series. However, its application often involves significant…

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