On the detection of Lorentzian profiles in a power spectrum: A bayesian approach using ignorance priors

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 506, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1043-1053

  Gruberbauer, M ^a,b   Kallinger, T ^a   Weiss, W W ^a   Guenther, D B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Methods: statistical; Stars: individual: HD 49933; Stars: oscillations

Indexed keywords

AUSTRIA; BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; BELGIUM; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; ERROR ESTIMATES; GERMANY; LORENTZIAN PROFILE; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; METHODS: STATISTICAL; MODE LIFETIME; MODEL FITTING; PROBABILITY DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; SCIENCE PROGRAMS; SPACE MISSIONS; SPECTROSCOPIC DATA; STARS: INDIVIDUAL: HD 49933; STARS: OSCILLATIONS; TIME-RESOLVED;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POWER SPECTRUM; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPACE FLIGHT; STARS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 70350454951     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811203     Document Type: Article

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