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Jennifer Bean
Missouri State University
Dr. Robert Patterson
Abstract
The intent of this study is to test available period search programs and evaluate which program is most useful for research projects involving variable stars. The programs that are compared are Phase Dispersion Minimization from IRAF, the Analisis de Variabilidad Estelar program, and Period04. The programs were used to find the periods of cosine curves with various levels of noise introduced. These light curves were produced using random noise added to a pure cosine curve. These light curves were retested after gaps were introduced to them.
Jennifer Bean is from Strafford, MO, and is a physics major at Missouri State University. Jennifer will be graduating in May 2011 plans to continue on to graduate school. This past fall she was a Euroscholar and participated in research at Leiden University in The Netherlands.
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