A Multi-instrument Generalized Lomb-Scargle Periodogram Implementation

Abstract

We present an implementation of the well-known and broadly used Generalized Lomb-Scargle Periodogram (GLS) which simultaneously takes into account individual offsets introduced in the data by different instruments: a "multi-instrument" GLS periodogram. While the algorithm itself is not new, the simple closed form implementation we provide, to our knowledge, is. We showcase an application of our multi-instrument GLS on radial-velocity data of the hot Jupiter TOI-481 b, whose period is recovered with a higher significance compared to the standard GLS approach. The code is available on GitHub.

Accepted by the Research Notes of the American Astronominal Society

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