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These are the proceedings of a symposium devoted to astronomical time series. With the rising quantity, quality and a variety of temporal data, increasingly higher levels of sophistication are required of astronomers analyzing time series. Many of the central questions in astrophysics hinge on their measurement and analysis. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss some of the many recent applications, discoveries, problems and techniques of astronomical time series, and to bring to light the similarity of time series problems arising in different sub-disciplines. Contributions by some of the foremost experts in astronomical time series include the fields of general mathematical and statistical techniques, interacting binaries, planet searches, pulsars, gravitational lensing, and active galactic nuclei. The volume is an interdisciplinary compilation on the topic of astronomical time series, and is suitable as a graduate-level introduction to the various topics, as well as a reference for time-series related work.
I: Invited Papers. Astronomical Time Series Analysis: New Methods for Studying Periodic and Aperiodic Systems; J.D. Scargle. Time Series Analysis from a Statistical Viewpoint; E.D. Feigelson. Observations of Millisecond Pulsars on Time Scales from 10 Nanoseconds to 10 Years; V.M. Kaspi. Microlensing: Current Results and Future Prospects; A. Gould. Image Subtraction in Time Series Analysis: Application to Microlensing and Light Echoes; A.P.S. Crotts. Desperately Seeking Non-Gaussianity: The Light Curve of 0957+561; W.H. Press, G.B. Rybicki. The Q0957+561 Time Delay, Quasar Structure, and Microlensing; R.E. Schild, D.J. Thomson. Reverberation Mapping and the Physics of Active Galactic Nuclei; H. Netzer, B.M. Peterson. Echo Mapping of X-Ray Binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei; K. Horne. Kilohertz Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries; M. van der Klis. Radial Velocity Detections of Extra-Solar Planets; T.. Mazeh. Time and Quantum Measurement; R.E. Nather. Concluding Remarks; E.D. Feigelson. II: Contributed Papers. Is AGN Variability Correlated with Other AGN Properties? ZDCF Analysis of Small Samples of Sparse Light Curves; T. Alexander. Test of Irregularly Sampled Stochastic Time Series for AGN; R. Vio, W. Wamsteker. Measuring Variability in the Presence of Noise; W.F. Welsh. Wavelet Transforms of Flickering Light Curves in Cataclysmic Variables; T. Fritz, A. Bruch. Fast Computation of Trigonometric Sums with Applications to the Frequency Analysis of Astronomical Data; J. Pelt. Period Search: Comparison of the New and Old Methods; A. Schwarzenberg-Czerny. Analyzing the X-Ray Variability of Cygnus X-1; K. Pottschmidt, M. Konig. Far Ultraviolet Rapid HST Photometry of U Gem in Outburst and WZ Sge in Quiescence; F.H. Cheng, et al. The New Ultrashort-Period Cataclysmic Variable: RX J0757.0+6306; G. Tovmassian, et al. Permanent Superhumps in Nova V1974 Cyg 1992; A. Retter, et al. Nova V1974 Cygni 1992: Variability of the Spectra in the Nebular Phase; M. Contini, et al. On the Short-Time Scale Evolutionary History of Contact Binary VW Cephei; I. Pustylnik, J. Kreiner. Statistics of Cataclysmic Variables from the "Highly Evolved Close Binary Systems" Catalog; N.A. Katysheva, S.Yu. Shugarov. Nova Aquilae 1995 - A Photometric Resemblance to Intermediate Polars; E.M. Leibowitz, et al. The Analysis of Three Novae: Old Novae Q Cyg, DI Lac, and N Cyg 1992 = V 1974 Cyg; V.P. Goransky, et al. What is the Magnetic Field of the DQ Herculis Binaries? J.B.G. Canalle, R. Opher. Application of Frequency Analysis in Searches for Planets Around Pulsars; A.J. Maciejewski, M. Konacki. The Planetary Companions to PSR B1257+12; M. Lecar. Period Variations in Six Galactic Cepheids; A.A. Ferro, et al. Optical-to-Radio Time Delay in the Gravitationally Lensed QSO 0957+561; V.L. Oknyanskij. Reverberation Mapping of High Luminosity AGN; S. Kaspi. Reverberation Modelling of the Broad Emission Line Region in NGC 5548; M.C. Botto.
