Improving the efficiency of Markov chain monte carlo for analyzing the orbits of extrasolar planets

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 642, Issue 1 I, 2006, Pages 505-522

  Ford, Eric B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Methods: Statistical; Planetary systems; Techniques: Radial velocities

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745297971     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500802     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Benedict, G. F., et al. 2002, ApJ, 581, L115
2. Bodenheimer, P., Laughlin, G., & Lin, D. N. C. 2003, ApJ, 592, 555
3. Brown, T., Charbonneau, D., Gilliland, R., Noyes, R., & Burrows, A. 2001, ApJ, 552, 699
4. Butler, R. P., Bedding, T. R., Kjeldsen, H., McCarthy, C., O'Toole, S. J., Tinney, C. G., Marcy, G. W., & Wright, J. T. 2004, ApJ, 600, L75
5. Butler, R. P., Marcy, G. W., Williams, E., McCarthy, C., Dosanjh, P., & Vogt, S. S. 1996, PASP, 108, 500
6. Butler, R. P., et al. 1999, ApJ, 526, 916
7. Cumming, A. 2004, MNRAS, 354, 1165
8. Cumming, A., Marcy, G. W., & Butler, R. P. 1999, ApJ, 526, 890
9. Cumming, A., Marcy, G. W., Butler, R. P., & Vogt, S. S. 2003, in ASP Conf. Ser. 294, Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets, ed. D. Deming & S. Seager (San Francisco: ASP), 27
10. Deming, D., Seager, S., Richardson, L. J., & Harrington, J. 2005, Nature, 434, 740
11. Ford, E. B. 2005a, AJ, 129, 1706 (Paper I)
12. _. 2005b, AJ, submitted
13. Ford, E. B., Lystad, V., & Rasio, F. A. 2005, Nature, 434, 873
14. Gelman, A., Carlin, J. B., Stern, H. S. & Rubin, D. B. 2003, Bayesian Data Analysis (New York: Chapman & Hall)
15. Gilks, W. R., Richardson, S., & Spiegelhalter, D. J. 1996, Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice (Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall)
16. Gregory, P. C. 2005a, ApJ, 631, 1198
17. _. 2005b, ApJ, 631, 1198
18. Kjeldsen, H., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 1483
19. Laughlin, G., Butler, R. P., Fischer, D. A., Marcy, G. W., Vogt, S. S., & Wolf, A. S. 2005, ApJ, 622, 1182
20. Laughlin, G., Marcy, G. W., Vogt, S. S., Fischer, D. A., & Butler, R. P. 2005, ApJ, 629, L121
21. Loredo, T. J. 2004, in AIP Conf. Proc. 707, Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering, ed. G. J. Erickson & Y. Zhai (Melville: AIP), 330
22. Marcy, G. W., Butler, R. P., Fischer, D., Vogt, S. S., Lissauer, J. J., & Rivera, E. J. 2001, ApJ, 556, 296
23. Marcy, G. W., Butler, R. P., Vogt, S. S., Fischer, D. A., Henry, G. W., Laughlin, G., Wright, J. T., & Johnson, J. A. 2005, ApJ, 619, 570
24. Murray, C. D., & Dermott, S. F. 1999, Solar System Dynamics (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press)
25. Pourbaix, D. 2002, A&A, 385, 686
26. Press, W. H., Teukolsky, S. A., Vetterling, W. T., & Flannery, B. P. 1992, Numerical Recipies in C: The Art of Sientific Computing (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press)
27. Rivera, E., et al. 2005, ApJ, 634, 625
28. Vogt, S. S., Butler, R. P., Marcy, G. W., Fischer, D. A., Henry, G. W., Laughlin, G., Wright, J. T., & Johnson, J. A. 2005, ApJ, 632, 638
29. Wittenmyer, R. 2004, Master's, San Diego State Univ.
30. Wright, J. T. 2005, PASP, 117, 657