Pablo Huijse, Pablo A. Estévez, Pablo Zegers, José Príncipe, Pavlos Protopapas
In this letter, we propose a method for period estimation in light curves
from periodic variable stars using correntropy. Light curves are astronomical
time series of stellar brightness over time, and are characterized as being
noisy and unevenly sampled. We propose to use slotted time lags in order to
estimate correntropy directly from irregularly sampled time series. A new
information theoretic metric is proposed for discriminating among the peaks of
the correntropy spectral density. The slotted correntropy method outperformed
slotted correlation, string length, VarTools (Lomb-Scargle periodogram and
Analysis of Variance), and SigSpec applications on a set of light curves drawn
from the MACHO survey.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2962
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