Rotational Brownian motion (astronomy) that the rotation axis of the binary is oriented at angle θ at time "t". The evolution equation for "F" is formula_17 If <Δξ>, "a", ρ and σ are constant in time, this becomes formula_18 where μ = cos θ and τ is the time in units of the relaxation time "t", where formula_19 The solution to this equation states that the expectation value of μ decays with time as formula_20 Hence, "t" is the time constant for the binary's orientation to be randomized by torques from field stars. Rotational Brownian motion was first discussed in the context of binary
Fractional Brownian motion stochastic integrals". In general though, unlike integrals with respect to regular Brownian motion, fractional stochastic integrals are not semimartingales. Just as Brownian motion can be viewed as white noise filtered by formula_8 (i.e. integrated), fractional Brownian motion is white noise filtered by formula_9 (corresponding to fractional integration). Practical computer realisations of an "fBm" can be generated, although they are only a finite approximation. The sample paths chosen can be thought of as showing discrete sampled points on an "fBm" process. Three realizations are shown below, each with 1000 points of an "fBm" with Hurst parameter 0.75. Realizations of three different