Time-scale and time-frequency analyses of irregularly sampled astronomical time series

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 2486-2499

  Thiebaut, C ^a,c   Roques, S ^b,d  

^a IRAP   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^c CNES   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Astronomical time series; Irregular sampling; Matching pursuit; Time frequency methods; Time scale methods; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL TIME SERIES; IRREGULAR SAMPLING; MATCHING PURSUIT; TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; TIME-SCALE METHOD;

ASTRONOMY; ERROR CORRECTION; INTERPOLATION; SAMPLING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 31444442510     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.2486     Document Type: Article

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