Jake VanderPlas 6/13/2015

Fast Lomb-Scargle Periodograms in Python

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This technical article compares several Python implementations of the Lomb-Scargle periodogram, a key algorithm for detecting periodicity in irregularly-sampled data. It recommends the 'gatspy' package, specifically its 'LombScargleFast' algorithm, for its efficiency. The post includes a practical astronomy example using variable star data and discusses integration with the AstroPy library.

Fast Lomb-Scargle Periodograms in Python

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