Mathematics – Probability
Scientific paper
Dec 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005aas...207.6822d&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, #68.22; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1269
Mathematics
Probability
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Scientific paper
The orbit of an extrasolar planet is obtained by fitting a Keplerian orbit to radial velocity, or astrometric data. We present a comparison of Levenberg-Marquardt Monte Carlo (LMMC) residual fitting to the Bayesian method of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). The most challenging aspect of fitting orbits is quantifying the uncertainty in the orbital parameters. We investigate the ability of the two techniques to quantify the orbital parameters and their uncertainties for tens of synthetic radial velocity data sets with varying planetary periods, observation phase coverage, and time of first observation. We find that the LMMC best-fits correspond in general to the peaks of the MCMC posterior probability distributions for the orbital parameters. LMMC tends to under estimate the uncertainty in the orbital parameters, especially for data sets with large gaps, while the MCMC provides a more complete representation of the parameter posterior distributions. We acknowledge the NASA Grant NNG056G164G.
Driscoll Peter
Fischer Debra
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