Astronomical time-series analysis - III. The role of the observational errors in the minimum entropy method

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 307, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 941-948

  Cincotta, Pablo M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Methods: analytical; Methods: data analysis; Stars: variables: other

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; LIGHT CURVES; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; METHODS:ANALYTICAL; OBSERVATIONAL ERRORS; PERIODOGRAMS; SHANNON'S ENTROPY; STAR: VARIABLE: OTHER; STARS: VARIABLES; TIMES SERIES;

ERRORS;

EID: 0042915004     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02667.x     Document Type: Article

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