Issue |
A&A
Volume 477, Number 2, January II 2008
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Page(s) | 611 - 613 | |
Section | Stellar structure and evolution | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077425 | |
Published online | 12 November 2007 |
On the backwards difference filter
1
Laboratoire AIM, UMR 7158 CEA/DSM – CNRS – U. Paris Diderot, DAPNIA/SAp, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France e-mail: rafael.garcia@cea.fr
2
Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, Postfach 1317, 85741 Garching, Germany e-mail: jballot@mpa-garching.mpg.de
Received:
6
March
2007
Accepted:
15
October
2007
Context.It is usual in helioseismology to remove unwanted instrumental low-frequency trends by applying high-pass filters to the time series. However, the choice of the filter is very important because it can keep the periodic signals throughout the spectrum. At the same time, these filters should not introduce any spurious effects on the remaining signal, which would modify the periodic signatures in the Fourier domain.
Aims.One of the most used filters is the so-called backwards difference filter that can be applied when the time series are regularly sampled. The problem of this filter is that the amplitudes and the phases of the periodic signals in the Fourier domain are modified and, therefore, their extracted amplitudes are biased when the frequency of the periodic signals decreases. The objective of this research note is to give a correction that could be applied to the power spectrum to over come this problem.
Methods.We properly derive the transfer function of the backwards difference filter and we show how this can be applied to the power spectrum to correct the amplitudes. For the amplitude spectrum and the time series, we also derive a correction for the phase.
Results.The amplitudes of the periodic signals in the resultant power spectrum density are corrected from the cut-off frequency down to zero.
Key words: methods: data analysis / stars: oscillations / Sun: helioseismology
© ESO, 2007
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