2005-07-30

statistics of stellar quadrangles

I worked out and wrote up a short note on the statistics of stellar quadrangles. As one might expect, their number on the sky goes as the angular size allowed for the largest star–star separation to the sixth power, and as the total density of stars on the sky to the fourth power.

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