Testing the randomness in the sky-distribution of gamma-ray bursts

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 391, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1741-1748

  Vavrek, R ^a   Balazs L G ^b   Meszaros A ^c   Horvath I ^d   Bagoly, Z ^e  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

^b KONKOLY OBSERVATORY   (Hungary)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d Bolyai Military University   (Hungary)

^e EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Gamma rays: bursts; Methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; FRACTALS; GAMMA RAYS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STARS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

COSMOLOGY OBSERVATIONS; GAMMA RAYS BURSTS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; MINIMAL SPANNING TREE; MONTE CARLO'S SIMULATION; MULTIFRACTAL SPECTRUM; NON-RANDOMNESS; SKY DISTRIBUTION; SQUARED EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; VORONOI TESSELATION;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 57649098408     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13635.x     Document Type: Article

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