Re:Why isn't everything normally distributed?
by teraflop on Thursday July 20, 2017 @07:25PM
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Not to mention that the distributions from three different sky surveys (in your first link) look dramatically different. Which means the histograms are saying at least as much about the measurement process as they are about what's actually out there in the universe.
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Re:Why isn't everything normally distributed?
by privong on Thursday July 20, 2017 @09:23PM
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To add to that, the sharp cutoff at faint (large number) magnitudes is almost certainly a reflection of the fact that astronomical surveys and images have a flux limit, below which objects cannot be individually detected.