Sparse Box-fitting Least Squares

We present a new implementation of the commonly used Box-fitting Least Squares (BLS) algorithm, for detection transiting exoplanets in photometric data. Unlike BLS, our - Sparse BLS (SBLS), does not use binning data into phase bins, nor it any kind grid. Thus, its efficiency depend on transit phase, and is therefore slightly better than that BLS. For sparse data, also significantly faster It perfectly suitable large surveys producing unevenly-sampled light curves, such as Gaia.