Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jul 1988
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988a%26a...201..194b&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 201, no. 1, July 1988, p. 194-198.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
5
Cluster Analysis, Computerized Simulation, Gamma Ray Astronomy, Light Curve, Pulsars, Cos-B Satellite, High Resolution, Links (Mathematics), Microstructure, Normal Density Functions
Scientific paper
The authors describe a non-parametric, binning-free, adaptive method for the detection and the analysis of structures in the light curves of gamma-ray pulsars, based on a clustering technique. They use computer simulated data and a sample of COS-B data relative to the Vela pulsar to show its behavior and robustness. As a main result they find that the method is able to detect microstructures as narrow as the time resolution of the experiment down to very low signal-to-noise values and counting statistics. This important advantage with respect to the usual histogram technique, together with the conceptual simplicity, suggests its use in gamma-ray astronomy, both in the low energy (high counting statistics) and in the high energy range (low counting statistics).
Buccheri Rosolino
di Gesu Vito
Maccarone Maria Concetta
Sacco Bruno
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