Extending the $Z^2_n$ and $H$ statistics to generic pulsed profiles

no code implementations • 21 Dec 2020 • Matteo Bachetti, Maura Pilia, Daniela Huppenkothen, Scott M. Ransom, Stefano Curatti, Alessandro Ridolfi

In order to establish the significance of the pulsed profiles found at these trial frequencies, pulsed profiles are evaluated with a chi-squared test, to establish how much they depart from a null hypothesis where the signal is consistent with a flat distribution of noisy measurements.

Time Series Analysis Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena