Detecting abrupt changes in the spectra of high-energy astrophysical sources

DOI10.1214/16-AOAS933zbMath1397.62617arXiv1508.07083OpenAlexW2964243029MaRDI QIDQ312981

Vinay L. Kashyap, David A. van Dyk, Thomas C. M. Lee, Raymond K. W. Wong

Publication date: 9 September 2016

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.07083

zbMATH Keywords

starsastronomyminimum description length principlechange point estimationFK Comae Berenicesmarked Poisson processsemiparametric modelingstellar coronaestellar flareX-ray astronomy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Non-Markovian processes: hypothesis testing (62M07) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25)

Uses Software

• SemiPar
• glmnet
• seqCBS

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