Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... A Parallel Procedure for the Analysis of Long­term Sequences of Light Curves A. F. Lanza, M. Rodon‘o 1 , U. Becciani and V. Antonuccio Delogu Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Viale A. Doria, 6 ­ I 95125 Catania, Italy Abstract. ... 1995, Lanza et al. ... The minimization of the function Q for all the light curves of a given se­ quence, for fixed values of the system parameters, represents a cycle of the procedure. ...