paper

Measures of Variance on Windowed Gaussian Processes

arXiv:2212.10684

Abstract

The variance and fractional variance on a fixed time window (variously known as "rms percent" or "modulation index") are commonly used to characterize the variability of astronomical sources. We summarize properties of this statistic for a Gaussian process.

arXiv comment5 pages, 1 figure, submitted to RNAAS