Astronomical Time Series: Proceedings of The Florence and George Wise Observatory 25th Anniversary Symposium held in Tel-Aviv, Israel, 30 December 1996–1 January 1997

311 Pages·1997·12.8 MB·English

by  Jeffrey D. Scargle (auth.)

ASTRONOMICAL TIME SERIES
ASTROPHYSICS AND
SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY
VOLUME218
Executive Committee
W. B. BURTON, Sterrewacht, Leiden, The Netherlands
J. M. E. KUIJPERS, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
E. P. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL, Astronomical Institute, University ofA msterdam,
The Netherlands
H. VAN DER LAAN, Astronomical Institute, University of Utrecht,
The Netherlands
Editorial Board
I. APPENZELLER, Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Konigstuhl, Germany
J. N. BAHCALL, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A.
F. BERTOLA, Universita di Padova, Italy
W. B. BURTON, Ste"ewacht, Leiden, The Netherlands
J.P. CASSINELLI, University ofWisconsin, Madison, U.S.A.
C. J. CESARSKY, Centred' Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yveue Cedex, France
0. ENGVOLD, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway
J. M. E. KUIJPERS, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
R. McCRAY, University of Colorado, JILA, Boulder, U.S.A.
P. G. MURDIN, Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cambridge, U.K.
F. PACINI, Istituto Astronomia Arcetri, Firenze, Italy
V. RADHAKRISHNAN, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
F. H. SHU, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
B. V. SOMOV, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia
R. A. SUNYAEV, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
S. TREMAINE, CITA, University of Toronto, Canada
Y. TANAKA, Institute ofS pace & Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan
E. P. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL,Astronomical Institute, University ofA msterdam,
The Netherlands
H. VANDERLAAN, Astronomical Institute, University of Utrecht,
The Netherlands
N. 0. WEISS, University of Cambridge, U.K.
ASTRONOMICAL
TIME SERIES
Proceedings of
The Florence and George Wise Observatory
25th Anniversary Symposium,
held in Tel-Aviv, Israel,
30 December 1996-1 January 1997
Edited by
DAN MAOZ, AMIEL STERNBERG and ELlA M. LEffiOWTIZ
School ofP hysics and Astronomy,
Tel-Aviv University,
Tel-Aviv, Israel
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
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ISBN 978-90-481-4895-0 ISBN 978-94-015-8941-3 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-8941-3
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface xi
Elia M. Leibowitz
List of Participants XV
I. INVITED PAPERS
Astronomical Time Series Analysis: New Methods for
Studying Periodic and Aperiodic Systems 1
Jeffrey D. Scargle
Time Series Analysis from a Statistical Viewpoint 13
Eric D. Feigel son
Observations of Millisecond Pulsars on Time Scales
from 10 Nanoseconds to 10 Years 25
V. M. Kaspi
Microlensing: Current Results and Future Prospects 37
Andrew Gould
Image Subtraction in Time Series Analysis:
Application to Microlensing and Light Echoes 49
A. P. S. Crotts
Desperately Seeking N on-Gaussianity: The Light Curve
of 0957+561 61
W. H. Press & G. B. Rybicki
VI
The Q0957+561 Time Delay, Quasar Structure,
and Microlensing 73
R. E. Schild & D. J. Thomson
Reverberation Mapping and the Physics
of Active Galactic Nuclei 85
Hagai Netzer & Bradley M. Peterson
Echo Mapping of X-ray Binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei 109
Keith Horne
Kilohertz Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in Low-Mass
X-Ray Binaries 121
M. Van der IGis
Radial Velocity Detections of Extra-Solar Planets 133
T. Mazeh
Time and Quantum Measurement 145
R. Edward Nather
Concluding Remarks 157
Eric D. Feigelson
II. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
Is AGN Variability Correlated with Other AGN Properties?
ZDCF Analysis of Small Samples of Sparse Light Curves 163
Tal Alexander
Tests of Irregularly Sampled Stochastic Time Series
for AGN 167
Roberto Vio & Willem Wamsteker
Measuring Variability in the Presence of Noise 171
W. F. Welsh
Wavelet Transforms of Flickering Light Curves in
Cataclysmic Variables 175
T. Fritz & A. Bruch
Vll
Fast Computation of Trigonometric Sums with Applications
to the Frequency Analysis of Astronomical Data 179
J. Pelt
Period Search: Comparison of the New and Old Methods 183
Alex Schwarzenberg-Czerny
Analyzing the X-Ray Variability of Cygnus X-1 187
Katja Pottschmidt & Michael Konig
Far Ultraviolet Rapid HST Photometry of U Gem
in Outburst and WZ Sge in Quiescence 191
F. H. Cheng, E. M. Sian, M. Huang,
J. Provencal, & P. Szkody
The New Ultrashort-Period Cataclysmic Variable:
RX J0757.0+6306 195
G. Tovmassian, J. Greiner, F.-J. Zickgraf, P. Kroll
J. Krautter, I. Thiering, & A. Serrano
Permanent Superhumps in Nova V1974 Cyg 1992 199
A. Retter, E.M. Leibowitz, & E.O. Ofek
Nova V1974 Cygni 1992: Variability of the Spectra
in the Nebular Phase 203
M. Contini, L. Collodel, & P. Rafanelli
On the Short-Time Scale Evolutionary History
of Contact Binary VW Cephei 207
I. Pustylnik & J .Kreiner
Statistics of Cataclysmic Variables from the
"Highly Evolved Close Binary Systems" Catalog 211
N. A. Katysheva & S. Yu.Shugarov
Nova Aquilae 1995 - A Photometric Resemblance
to Intermediate Polars 215
E. M. Leibowitz, A. Retter & 0. Kovo-Kariti
viii
The Analysis of Three Novae: Old Novae Q Cyg, DI Lac,
=
and N Cyg 1992 V1974 Cyg 219
V. P. Goransky, S. Yu. Shugarov, E. S. Dmitrienko,
& E. P. Pavlenko
What is the Magnetic Field of the DQ Herculis Binaries? 223
J. R G. Canalle & R. Opher
Application of Frequency Analysis in Searches for
Planets around Pulsars 227
Andrzej J. Maciejewski & Maciej Konacki
The Planetary Companions to PSR B1257+12 231
Myron Lecar
Period Variations in Six Galactic Cepheids 235
A. Arellano Ferro, Patricia Rosenzweig, & E. Rojo Arellano
Optical-to-Radio Time Delay in the Gravitationally
Lensed QSO 0957+561 239
V. L. Oknyanskij
Reverberation Mapping of High Luminosity AGN 243
S. Kaspi
Reverberation Modeling of the Broad Emission Line
Region in NGC 5548 247
M. C. Bottorff, K. T. Korista, I. Shlosman,
& R. D. Blandford
Principal Component Analysis of the C IV -X1549
Emission Line in Active Galactic Nuclei 251
M. Tiirler & T. J.-1. Courvoisier
X-ray Variability and Spectral Scaling:
A measure of BLR sizes in AGN 255
A. Wandel & Th. Boller
Variable High Energy Emission of Blazars 259
G. Madejski, T. Takahashi, H. Kubo, & M. Sikora
IX
Analyzing X-ray Variability by State Space Models 265
Michael Konig, Rudiger Staubert, & Jens Timmer
OJ 287: Wavelet Analysis of the 3-year light curve 269
Harry J. Lehto
Timescales of Optical Continuum Variability in NGC 4151 273
N. Solomos, I. Hatzilau, A. Mavrogonatos,
M. J. Whitehead. & I. Sakelliou
The X-ray Variability Properties of PG Quasars:
New ROSAT/HRI Results 277
F. Fiore, A. Laor, M. Elvis, F. Nicastro, & E. Giallongo
Auto- and Cross-Correlations of Gamma Ray Burst
Time Series 281
David L. Band
TAUVEX and its Contribution to Time Series Studies 285
N. Brosch
Author Index 291