Online availability

The ANSI-C code of COMBINE is available online at

http://www.astro.univie.ac.at/SigSpec.

For further information, please contact P. Reegen,

[email protected].

Acknowledgments. PR received financial support from the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF, projects P14546-PHY, P17580-N2) and the BM:BWK (project COROT). Furthermore, it is a pleasure to thank M. Gruberbauer, M. Hareter, D. Huber, D.Punz (Univ. Vienna), G.A.H. Walker (UBC, Vancouver), and W.W. Weiss (Univ. Vienna) for their help. I acknowledge the anonymous referee for a detailed examination of both this publication and the corresponding software, as well as for the constructive feedback that helped to improve the overall quality a lot. Finally, I address my very special thanks to J.D. Scargle for his valuable support.

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