“…The research literature on spectral analysis of gapped data is abundant ; see, e.g., Scargle (1997), Adorf (1995), Meisel (1979), Brown & Christensen-Dalsgaard (1990), Fahlman & Ulrych (1982), Swan (1982), Kuhn (1982), Roberts, Lehar, & Dreher (1987), Lomb (1976), Scargle (1982), Press & Rybicki (1989), Scargle (1989), and Rybicki & Press (1992) in astronomical journals and Isaksson (1993), Sacchi, Ulrych, & Walker (1998), and Bronez (1988) in signal processing journals. In the applications that motivated this literature, with astronomy as a notable example, the data come with gaps and hence require a di †erent set of analysis tools than those used to process full data sequences.…”