| Savitribai Phule Pune University |
| Title | Neutron stars in the light of SKA: Data, statistics, and science |
| Author/s |
Mihir Arjunwadkar
Centre for Modeling and Simulation, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 411 007, India Akanksha Kashikar Department of Statistics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 411 007, India Manjari Bagchi The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Taramani, Chennai 600113, India |
| Abstract | The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), when it becomes functional, is expected to enrich neutron star (NS) catalogues by at least an order of magnitude over their current state. This includes the discovery of new NS objects leading to better sampling of under-represented NS categories, precision measurements of intrinsic properties such as spin period and magnetic field, as also data on related phenomena such as microstructure, nulling, glitching, etc. This will present a unique opportunity to seek answers to interesting and fundamental questions about the extreme physics underlying these exotic objects in the universe. In this paper, we first present a meta-analysis (from a methodological viewpoint) of statistical analyses performed using existing NS data, with a two-fold goal: First, this should bring out how statistical models and methods are shaped and dictated by the science problem being addressed. Second, it is hoped that these analyses will provide useful starting points for deeper analyses involving richer data from SKA whenever it becomes available. We also describe a few other areas of NS science which we believe will benefit from SKA which are of interest to the Indian NS community. |
| Keywords | Square-kilometer array (SKA), neutron stars, statistical science, statistical data modeling and analysis |
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| Citing This Document | Mihir Arjunwadkar, Akanksha Kashikar, and Manjari Bagchi , Neutron stars in the light of SKA: Data, statistics, and science . Technical Report CMS-TR-20160515 of the Centre for Modeling and Simulation, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 411007, India (2016); available at http://scms.unipune.ac.in/reports/. |
| Notes, Published Reference, Etc. | Published in the special issue "Science with the SKA: an Indian perspective" of the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy as J. Astrophys. Astr. (2016) 37:28 |
| Contact |
mihir AT scms.unipune.ac.in
akanksha.kashikar AT gmail.com manjari AT imsc.res.in |
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