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5.11 Light Curves

Two light curves are constructed for each observation of each source; one is ``grouped'' (like spectra are grouped) to provide unequal time bins, the second is adaptively smoothed.

Time variability of the source both within and between observations is quantified by comparing a uniform flux model to the distribution of source event time stamps from all observations and computing the 1-sided Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic.



Patrick Broos
Penn State Department of Astronomy
2009-08-12