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timedelay

Time Delay Estimation for Stochastic Time Series of Gravitationally Lensed Quasars

v1.0.11 · May 19, 2020 · GPL-2

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We provide a toolbox to estimate the time delay between the brightness time series of gravitationally lensed quasar images via Bayesian and profile likelihood approaches. The model is based on a state-space representation for irregularly observed time series data generated from a latent continuous-time Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Our Bayesian method adopts scientifically motivated hyper-prior distributions and a Metropolis-Hastings within Gibbs sampler, producing posterior samples of the model parameters that include the time delay. A profile likelihood of the time delay is a simple approximation to the marginal posterior distribution of the time delay. Both Bayesian and profile likelihood approaches complement each other, producing almost identical results; the Bayesian way is more principled but the profile likelihood is easier to implement. A new functionality is added in version 1.0.9 for estimating the time delay between doubly-lensed light curves observed in two bands. See also Tak et al. (2017) <doi:10.1214/17-AOAS1027>, Tak et al. (2018) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2017.1415911>, Hu and Tak (2020) <arXiv:2005.08049>.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies MASS mvtnorm timedelay

Version History

new 1.0.11 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.0.11 ← 1.0.10 diff May 18, 2020
updated 1.0.10 ← 1.0.9 diff May 4, 2020
updated 1.0.9 ← 1.0.8 diff May 2, 2020
updated 1.0.8 ← 1.0.7 diff May 15, 2018
updated 1.0.7 ← 1.0.6 diff May 26, 2017
updated 1.0.6 ← 1.0.5 diff Mar 22, 2017
updated 1.0.5 ← 1.0.4 diff Dec 12, 2016
updated 1.0.4 ← 1.0.3 diff Nov 29, 2016
updated 1.0.3 ← 1.0.2 diff Nov 3, 2016
updated 1.0.2 ← 1.0.1 diff Feb 10, 2016
updated 1.0.1 ← 1.0.0 diff Jan 4, 2016
new 1.0.0 Jul 19, 2015