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A new test of uniformity for object orientations in astronomy

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-07-21 v1

Abstract

We briefly present a new coordinate-invariant statistical test dedicated to the study of the orientations of transverse quantities of non-uniformly distributed sources on the celestial sphere. These quantities can be projected spin-axes or polarization vectors of astronomical sources.

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@article{arxiv.1507.05427,
  title  = {A new test of uniformity for object orientations in astronomy},
  author = {Vincent Pelgrims},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05427},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 306, 2014