Preprint arXiv:2207.09696 [astro-ph.HE]; last accessedAugust 8, 2022.
ISSN/ISBN: Not available at this time. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2207.09696
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:
@misc{,
doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2207.09696},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09696},
author = {Mamidipaka, Pragna and Desai, Shantanu},
title = {Do Pulsar and Fast Radio Burst dispersion measures obey Benford's law?},
publisher = {arXiv},
year = {2022},
copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International}
},
Reference Type: Preprint
Subject Area(s): Physics