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arXiv 2004.10763astro-ph.HEastro-ph.IM
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从高斯过程看Blazar恒星光变曲线的周期性

Looking at Blazar Light Curve Periodicities with Gaussian Processes

Stefano Covino, Marco Landoni, Angela Sandrinelli, Aldo Treves

摘要:

耀变体通量的时间分析是推断这些源的发射过程和物理的有力工具。在大多数情况下,可用的光变曲线是不规则采样的,并且受到间隙的影响,此外还受到相关噪声的影响,使得它们的分析变得复杂。高斯过程可以提供一个可行的工具来评估由任何采样和噪声模式表征的光变曲线中的拟议周期的统计意义。我们推断了文献中提出的两个著名的耀变体周期的意义,这两个耀变体在高能和光学波段具有可能的一年周期:PG 1553 +113和PKS 2155 -304。在建模中添加周期性分量可以更好地对分析的光变曲线进行统计描述。对于PG 1553 +113,在高能量和光学中的改善是相当稳固的,而对于PKS 2155 -304,在高能量下的改善还不足以允许令人信服的声明,并且通过光学分析没有出现周期性的证据。通过高斯过程建模的光变曲线,尽管是相对计算要求,使我们能够获得大量的信息,研究中的数据,并提出了一个原始的分析框架的光变曲线的天体物理学的兴趣。

英文摘要:

Temporal analysis of blazar flux is a powerful tool to draw inferences about the emission processes and physics of these sources. In the most general case, the available light curves are irregularly sampled and influenced by gaps, and in addition are also affected by correlated noise, making their analysis complicated. Gaussian processes may offer a viable tool to assess the statistical significance of proposed periods in light curves characterized by any sampling and noise pattern. We infer the significance of the periods proposed in the literature for two well known blazars with multiple claims of possible year-long periodicity: PG1553+113 and PKS2155-304, in the high-energy and optical bands. Adding a periodic component to the modeling gives a better statistical description of the analyzed light curves. The improvement is rather solid for PG1553+113, both at high energies and in the optical, while for PKS2155-304 at high energies the improvement is not yet strong enough to allow cogent claims, and no evidence for periodicity emerged by the analysis in the optical. Modeling a light curve by means of Gaussian processes, in spite of being relatively computationally demanding, allows us to derive a wealth of information about the data under study and suggests an original analysis framework for light curves of astrophysical interest.

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