ywx649999311 / EzTao

A Python Toolkit for AGN Time Series Analysis using CARMA models
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New Error Model for simulated time series #45

Closed ywx649999311 closed 3 years ago

ywx649999311 commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/ywx649999311/EzTao/blob/4ae71174f9b0e6c079cf64fc4ef229e3a2f43114/src/eztao/ts/carma_sim.py#L49 The current distribution used seems still be the best empirically (after comparison with SDSS S82 quasar in both mag and flux scale). So will keep use this.

The lognormal distribution with \mu equals 0 centers at 1, so enables easy scaling (both median and spread) of the error bars to match different SNR.