PNe 10 - running random box (with/without stipulated or unstipulated) PNe on the theoretical PNe positions

Armed with the PNe coordinates from the PNe8alpha methods, we try to do statistics on this data, which DOES have a correlation between PNe and light, in it (since we generated it that way!)
For this we used the PNe coordinates from alpha_2.5 = 23 x 10^-9, and subsampled the catalog according to the number of PNe found by Feldmeier/Okamura, as described on this page.

The statistics applied are similiar to this page: PNe8. We used 3 histograms, and they are all based on selecting random boxes:
        For the 1+ PNe, make sure random boxes have at least 1 PNe in them, otherwise select a new box.
        For 0 PNe, make sure randoms have 0 PNe in them, or throw them out.
        For Randoms, just pick random boxes.

For the fields, the # of PNe (and therefore the number of boxes, it is set to the number observed) are:
Field 3 : 75
Field 4 : 11
Field 7 : 141
Field Sub : 34

Boxes are allowed to overlap and the program is restricted not to try more than 1,000 unsuccessful times on each histogram method for each PN in the field


     
     



     
     



     
     



     
     




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