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A Well-Characterized Survey for Centaurs in Pan-STARRS1

  • Authors: Jacob A. Kurlander, Matthew J. Holman, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Mario Jurić, Aren Heinze, Matthew J. Payne

Jacob A. Kurlander et al 2025 The Astronomical Journal 169 .

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Caption: Figure 7.

A toy example showing realizations of two distinct distributions that share identical marginal distributions in two quantities of interest (“x” and “y”), but have distinct two-dimensional distributions. A one-dimensional test such as the KS test would fail to distinguish between these two populations, motivating a need for multivariate statistics.

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