Astroparticle Physics 144, p. 102761 .
ISSN/ISBN: Not available at this time. DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2022.102761
Abstract: We check if the first significant digit of the dispersion measure of pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts (using the CHIME catalog) is consistent with the Benford distribution. We find a large disagreement with Benford’s law with χ2 close to 80 for 8 degrees of freedom for both these aforementioned datasets. This corresponds to a discrepancy of about 7σ. Therefore, we conclude that the dispersion measures of pulsars and FRBs do not obey Benford’s law.
Bibtex:
@article{,
title = {Do pulsar and Fast Radio Burst dispersion measures obey Benford’s law?},
journal = {Astroparticle Physics},
volume = {144},
pages = {102761},
year = {2023},
issn = {0927-6505},
doi = {10.1016/j.astropartphys.2022.102761},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927650522000640},
author = {Pragna Mamidipaka and Shantanu Desai},
}
Reference Type: Journal Article
Subject Area(s): Natural Sciences, Physics