An information theoretic algorithm for finding periodicities in stellar light curves

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 5135-5145

  Huijse, Pablo ^a   Estévez, Pablo A ^a   Protopapas, Pavlos ^b   Zegers, Pablo ^c   Prañcipe, José C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Correntropy; Information theory; Period detection; Period estimation; Time series analysis; Variable stars

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SURVEYS; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; CORRENTROPY; FALSE POSITIVE; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; GENERALIZED CORRELATION; INFORMATION THEORETIC ALGORITHM; LIGHT CURVES; PERIOD ESTIMATION; PERIODOGRAMS; RESAMPLING; TRUE POSITIVE; UNEVENLY SAMPLED; VARIABLE STARS;

ESTIMATION; STARS; SURVEYS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 84866502187     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2012.2204260     Document Type: Article

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