The generalised Lomb-Scargle periodogram. A new formalism for the floating-mean and Keplerian periodograms

Details The generalised Lomb-Scargle periodogram. A new formalism for the floating-mean and Keplerian periodograms The generalised Lomb-Scargle periodogram. A new formalism for the floating-mean and Keplerian periodograms

2009-01-16

arxiv.org/abs/0901.2573v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

8 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, accepted by A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:200811296

The Lomb-Scargle periodogram is a common tool in the frequency analysis of unequally spaced data equivalent to least-squares fitting of sine waves. We give an analytic solution for the generalisation to a full sine wave fit, including an offset and weights ($\chi^{2}$ fitting). Compared to the Lomb-Scargle periodogram, the generalisation is superior as it provides more accurate frequencies, is less susceptible to aliasing, and gives a much better determination of the spectral intensity. Only a few modifications are required for the computation and the computational effort is similar. Our approach brings together several related methods that can be found in the literature, viz. the date-compensated discrete Fourier transform, the floating-mean periodogram, and the "spectral significance" estimator used in the SigSpec program, for which we point out some equivalences. Furthermore, we present an algorithm that implements this generalisation for the evaluation of the Keplerian periodogram that searches for the period of the best-fitting Keplerian orbit to radial velocity data. The systematic and non-random algorithm is capable of detecting eccentric orbits, which is demonstrated by two examples and can be a useful tool in searches for the orbital periods of exoplanets.

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