Dipole and quadrupole tests of the isotropy of gamma-ray burst locations

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Apr 1993

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 407, no. 1, p. 126-134.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

44

Gamma Ray Astronomy, Gamma Ray Bursts, Statistical Analysis, Astronomical Models, Milky Way Galaxy, Spherical Coordinates

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Dipole and quadrupole tests of the isotropy of locations on the sphere are discussed. The statistics (cos theta), the dipole moment to the Galactic center, and mean (sin-squared b - 1/3), the quadrupole moment about the Galactic plane, can be used to search for significant anisotropies in galactic coordinates. Such coordinate-system-based tests are the most powerful tests of dipole and quadrupole anisotropies in the particular coordinate system. Two statistics which have not been previously applied to gamma-ray burst data are described. The Rayleigh-Watson statistic measures the size of the dipole moment of the locations and the Bingham statistic measures the deviation of the eigenvalues of a quadrupole-like matrix from the values expected for isotropy. Tests based upon these two statistics search for dipole and quadrupole moments in spherical location data in a coordinate-system-independent, and thus model-independent, manner. They can detect an anisotropy in any direction and yield an analytic statistical significance to any detected anisotropy. The statistical tests are demonstrated herein using a variety of data sets.

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