MODELING RADIAL VELOCITY SIGNALS FOR EXOPLANET SEARCH APPLICATIONS

Prabhu Babu, Petre Stoica, Jian Li

2010

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce an estimation technique for analyzing radial velocity data commonly encountered in extrasolar planet detection. We discuss the Keplerian model for radial velocity data measurements and estimate the 3D spectrum (power vs. eccentricity, orbital period and periastron passage time) of the radial velocity data by using a relaxation maximum likelihood algorithm (RELAX). We then establish the significance of the spectral peaks by using a generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT). Numerical experiments are carried out on a real life data set to evaluate the performance of our method.

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Babu P., Stoica P. and Li J. (2010). MODELING RADIAL VELOCITY SIGNALS FOR EXOPLANET SEARCH APPLICATIONS . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 3: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8425-02-7, pages 155-159. DOI: 10.5220/0002770601550159


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco10,
author={Prabhu Babu and Petre Stoica and Jian Li},
title={MODELING RADIAL VELOCITY SIGNALS FOR EXOPLANET SEARCH APPLICATIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 3: ICINCO,},
year={2010},
pages={155-159},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002770601550159},
isbn={978-989-8425-02-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 3: ICINCO,
TI - MODELING RADIAL VELOCITY SIGNALS FOR EXOPLANET SEARCH APPLICATIONS
SN - 978-989-8425-02-7
AU - Babu P.
AU - Stoica P.
AU - Li J.
PY - 2010
SP - 155
EP - 159
DO - 10.5220/0002770601550159