Butterfly statistics, astronomical surveys, and the discovery of new classes of objects

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Mar 1988

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Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Publications (ISSN 0004-6280), vol. 100, March 1988, p. 398-401. Research supported by the

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Astronomical Photometry, Faint Objects, Statistical Analysis, Galactic Radiation, Surveys, Telescopes

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It is possible to calculate how many new "species" one expects to find when resampling a previously sampled population. By applying the statistical method of Fisher, Corbett, and Williams (1943) to the important Palomar Green (PG) survey, a survey of faint blue objects which has found several interesting classes of objects, we show that a similar survey would probably discover two new classes, while each new class, in addition, would require an observational effort equal to that of the PG survey. The McGraw Transit Telescope on Kitt Peak will also sample the sky, and the statistical analysis suggests that about a dozen new species might be found among galaxy-like objects.

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