[ascl:1704.013]
Difference-smoothing: Measuring time delay from light curves
The Difference-smoothing MATLAB code measures the time delay from the light curves of images of a gravitationally lendsed quasar. It uses a smoothing timescale free parameter, generates more realistic synthetic light curves to estimate the time delay uncertainty, and uses X2 plot to assess the reliability of a time delay measurement as well as to identify instances of catastrophic failure of the time delay estimator. A systematic bias in the measurement of time delays for some light curves can be eliminated by applying a correction to each measured time delay.
- Code site:
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https://github.com/rathnakumars/difference-smoothing
- Used in:
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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017MNRAS.470.2918R
- Bibcode:
- 2017ascl.soft04013R