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Not to mention that the distributions from three different sky surveys (in your first link) look dramatically different. Which means the histograms are saying a
by teraflop 9y ago
Not to mention that the distributions from three different sky surveys (in your first link) look dramatically different. Which means the histograms are saying at least as much about the measurement process as they are about what's actually out there in the universe.
- privong 9y agoTo add to that, the sharp cutoff at faint (large number) magnitudes is almost certainly a reflection of the fact that astronomical surveys and images have a flux limit, below which objects cannot be individually detected.