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Power-law statistics and stellar rotational velocities in the Pleiades

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2009-08-03 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

In this paper we will show that, the non-gaussian statistics framework based on the Kaniadakis statistics is more appropriate to fit the observed distributions of projected rotational velocity measurements of stars in the Pleiades open cluster. To this end, we compare the results from the κ\kappa and qq-distributions with the Maxwellian.

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@article{arxiv.0903.0836,
  title  = {Power-law statistics and stellar rotational velocities in the Pleiades},
  author = {J. C. Carvalho and R. Silva and J. D. Jr. do Nascimento and J. R. De Medeiros},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.0836},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages, 3 figures