Help Needed with Software

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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:46:05 -0500
From: Thomas F. Droege <droege@fastmail.fm>
To: tass@tass-survey.org
Subject: Help Needed with Software

Hello all,

Since I am feeling better, I plan to spend some timer analyzing data.  I
want to do a search for periodic variables.  My bet is that in doing
this more data will beat out noise in the data.  By plotting it, one
should be able to see the period well into the noise.

I need software that takes a list of time/values and looks for any
periodic content.  I assume that this is some fft like thing that looks
at the data and finds the most probable period.  I suppose that this
cannot be automated very well, so I am willing to look at intermediate
data.

I am also interested in scripts and software for plotting.  I assume
gnuplot is what is used, so sample scripts would be most useful for me
to learn the process.

I will be running under Linux, so no Windows stuff, please.

Tom Droege
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  Thomas F. Droege
  droege@fastmail.fm