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Has anyone studied a statistical scaling law for the universe? [closed]
How do named objects in the universe scale? Is there a predictable curve for an ordered list, say {atom, animal, planet, solar system, galaxy, etc}? Can you then use the analysis to predict when the ...
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Initial separation of neutron star/black hole binaries?
How would I go about finding the distribution of initial separations (i.e. the lengths between the centres of mass) of stars that make up binary systems. I am interested in neutron stars and stellar ...
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What is the Schechter luminosity function's domain of support?
I'm trying to fit a Schechter luminosity function to some data points, but it's not clear from this definition what the domain of support of the PDF should be. I'm familiar with the standard Pareto ...
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Astronomical detection significance from magnitude error
At this website:
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/swift/analysis/threads/uvot_thread_afterglows.html
The passage at the bottom states that a V-band magnitude of 17.62, with an error $\pm$0.02 is a ...
