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Iglesias-Marzoa, R.; López-Morales, M.; Arévalo Morales, M. J.
Bibliographical reference
Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VIII, Proceedings of the XI Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on September 8-12, 2014, in Teruel, Spain, ISBN 978-84-606-8760-3. A. J. Cenarro, F. Figueras, C. Hernández-Monteagudo, J. Trujillo Bueno, and L. Valdivielso (eds.), p. 643-648
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2015
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Description
We present a new code for fitting radial velocities of stellar binaries
and exoplanets using an Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) global
minimisation method. ASA belongs to the family of Monte Carlo methods
and its main advantages are that it only needs evaluations of the
objective function, it does not rely on derivatives, and the parameters
space can be periodically redefined and rescaled for individual
parameters. ASA is easily scalable since the physics is concentrated in
only one function and can be modified to account for more complex
models. Our ASA code minimises the χ^2 function in the
multidimensional parameters space to obtain the full set of parameters
(P, T_p, e, ω, γ, K_1, K_2) of the keplerian radial velocity
curves which best represent the observations. As a comparison we checked
our results with the published solutions for several binary stars and
exoplanets with available radial velocities data. We achieve good
agreement within the limits imposed by the uncertainties.