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A.A. 2011/2012<br />
Temporal Data Analysis<br />
3.5 Fast Fourier Transform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60<br />
4 Response Properties of Physical Systems 63<br />
4.1 Basic Dynamic Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63<br />
4.2 Frequency Response Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />
4.3 Single-Input Linear Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66<br />
II Procedures 69<br />
5 Procedures for Analyzing Random Data 71<br />
5.1 Procedures for Analyzing Individual Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71<br />
5.1.1 Mean and Mean Square Value Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71<br />
5.1.2 Autocorrelation Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />
5.1.3 Power Spectral Density Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />
5.1.4 Probability Density Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />
5.1.5 Nonstationary and Transient Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />
5.1.6 Periodic and Almost-Periodic Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74<br />
5.1.7 Specialized Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74<br />
5.2 Procedures for Analyzing a Collection of Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74<br />
5.2.1 Analysis of Individual Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74<br />
5.2.2 Test for Correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76<br />
5.2.3 Test for Equivalence of Uncorrelated Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76<br />
5.2.4 Pooling of Equivalent Uncorrelated Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76<br />
5.2.5 Cross Correlation Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77<br />
5.2.6 Cross Correlation Spectral Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77<br />
5.2.7 Coherence Function Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77<br />
5.2.8 Frequency Response Function Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />
5.2.9 Other Desired Multiple Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />
6 Temporal Analysis in X–ray Astronomy 79<br />
6.1 Power Spectra in X–ray Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79<br />
6.2 Power Spectral Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84<br />
6.2.1 The Probability Distribution of the Noise Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84<br />
6.2.2 The Detection Level: The Number of Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86<br />
6.3 The Signal Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87<br />
6.3.1 Sensitivity to Signal Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88<br />
6.3.2 The rms Variation in the Source Signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88<br />
6.4 Detection of Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89<br />
6.5 Power Spectral Searches Made Easy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89<br />
6.6 Type of Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91<br />
6.6.1 1/f Noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91<br />
6.6.2 Shot Noise Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92<br />
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