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%Folds RR Lyrae
    infile='R_2816983974734205722.txt';
    P0=0.609210;
    T0=55926.891647;

    fprintf('Input file is %s\n',infile)
    fprintf('Period and zero-phase %f %f\n',P0,T0);

    fid=fopen(infile);
    A=textscan(fid,'%f %f %f');
    fclose(fid);
    tmjd=A{1}; magR=A{2}; emagR=A{3};

Input file is R_2816983974734205722.txt
Period and zero-phase 0.609210 55926.891647

Plot the input time series

    figure(1)
    errorbar(magR,emagR);
    title(['Time Series for file: ' infile],'interpreter','none')
    xlabel('sample index')
    ylabel('R mag')
    yl=ylim;

    figure(2)
    subplot(2,1,1)
        histogram(magR);
        xlabel('R band mag')
    subplot(2,1,2)
        histogram(emagR,0.0:0.01:0.05);
        xlabel('Error in R band mag')

    V=var(magR);
    E=mean(emagR.^2);
    medemag=median(emagR);
    fprintf('Variance V=%f   Mean of error-squared E=%f\n',V,E);
    fprintf('Median of mag error %0.3f\n',medemag);
    if(V>E), fprintf('V>E: Variable source\n'),end;

Variance V=0.028257   Mean of error-squared E=0.001159
Median of mag error 0.021
V>E: Variable source

    figure(3)
    subplot(3,1,1)
        phase=mod(tmjd-T0,P0)/P0;
        plot(phase,magR,'+')
        ylim(yl)
        axis ij         %higher mag is fainter!
        ylabel('R band mag')

    subplot(3,1,2)   %reorder the light curve with increasing phase
        [ph,ind]=sort(phase);
        mag=magR(ind);
        plot(ph,mag,'.')
        hold on
        smag=smooth(mag,20,'rloess');  %running average of 20 bins
        plot(ph,smag,'-k','LineWidth',2)
        ylim(yl)
        axis ij
        ylabel('R band mag')
        legend('All data','Smoothed','Location','SouthWest')
        hold off

    subplot(3,1,3)  %eliminate outliers (defined as twice median error mag
        dy=smag-mag;
        ind=abs(dy)>2*medemag;
        n=numel(ind);
        m=sum(ind);
        fprintf('eliminated %d points out of %d\n',m,n);
        mag(ind)=[];
        ph(ind)=[];
        plot(ph,mag,'+')
        hold on
        smag=smooth(mag,10,'rlowess');
        plot(ph,smag,'-k','LineWidth',2)
        axis ij
        hold off
        legend('outliers removed','smoothed','Location','SouthWest')
        xlabel('Phase')
        ylabel('R band mag')
        ylim(yl)

    figure(4)
        plot(ph,mag,'+k')
        hold on
        %plot(ph,smag,'--m')
        axis ij
        legend('outliers removed','Location','SouthWest')
        xlabel('Phase')
        ylabel('R band mag')
        ylim([-Inf Inf])
        hold off

eliminated 71 points out of 419

Published with MATLAB® R2016b