An affine-invariant sampler for exoplanet fitting and discovery in radial velocity data

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 745, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Hou, Fengji ^a   Goodman, Jonathan ^b   Hogg, David W ^a,c   Weare, Jonathan ^b,d   Schwab, Christian ^e,f  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

methods: data analysis; methods: numerical; methods: statistical; planetary systems; stars: individual (HIP36616, HIP88048); techniques: radial velocities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855949172     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/745/2/198     Document Type: Article

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