เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	การวิเคราะห์เส้นแสง	ทฤษฎีการรบกวนในจักรวาลวิทยา
สาขาวิชา	ฟิสิกส์ประยุกต์	ฟิสิกส์ประยุกต์
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1880	1902
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Edward Pickering	James Jeans
ประเภท	Signal processing and astronomical observation technique	Theoretical framework and computational method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Ricker, G. R., et al. (2015). TESS: Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 1(1), 014003.	Jeans, J. H. (1902). The stability of a spherical nebula. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 199, 1-53.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	photometric analysis, transit photometry, eclipsing binary analysis	structure formation theory, linear perturbations, growth of density fluctuations
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	3	3
สรุป	Light curve analysis is the study of the brightness variation of a celestial object over time, used to detect and characterize exoplanets, eclipsing binaries, and variable stars. When a planet transits in front of its host star, the star's brightness dips slightly. By analyzing these photometric signatures, astronomers can determine planetary radii, orbital periods, and atmospheric properties. This method has discovered thousands of exoplanets and revealed the structure of stellar systems.	Cosmological perturbation theory describes how small density fluctuations in the early universe grow into galaxies, clusters, and large-scale structure under gravity. Originating from James Jeans's 1902 stability analysis and extended by Lifshitz, Bardeen, and others, this theory is the foundation of structure formation cosmology. It explains how quantum fluctuations in the early universe—amplified by inflation—seeded the growth of all cosmic structures.