Nearest neighbour analysis of random distributions on a sphere

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Nov 1989

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 241, Nov. 1, 1989, p. 109-117. Research supported by SE

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Computational Astrophysics, Probability Distribution Functions, Spheres, Poisson Density Functions, X Ray Sources

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The distribution of nearest neighbor separations of points placed randomly on the surface of a sphere is useful in deciding whether objects in real data are random or occur in pairs. In the past, a Poisson distribution has been used. A more natural spherical analysis of this problem, obtaining the probability distribution function and the mean separation of random points, is presented. It is shown that for a large number of points this distribution is equivalent to the Poisson form and can be extended to give the 2nd and Mth nearest neighbor distributions. To illustrate the application to astronomical data, the distribution of X-ray clusters, which are found to occur in pairs, is considered.

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