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- Wed Jul 22, 2015 10:06 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Gamma-ray Rain from 3C 279 (2015 Jul 22)
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Re: APOD: Gamma-ray Rain from 3C 279 (2015 Jul 22)
Why do the gammas appear to arrive in clumps? There seems to be about a half to 3/4 second pulsing in the arrival of the little buggers. Most likely the timing is described by a modulated Poisson distribution, which generally shows such clumping. It is statistically insignificant, but our brains ar...