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Beyond the central limit theorem

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We study the effect of the non-Gaussian galaxy clustering on the statistics of pencil beam surveys. We derive the probability distribution for the power spectrum peaks by means of the Edgeworth expansion and find that the higher order moments of the galaxy distribution raise the probability to obtain the 128h āˆ’1 Mpc periodicity by more than one order of magnitude, up to 1%.

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  1. NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Center, PO Box 500, 60510, Batavia, IL, USA

    Luca Amendola

  2. Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Viale del Parco Mellini 84, 00136, Roma, Italy

    Luca Amendola

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Amendola, L. (1995). Beyond the central limit theorem. In: Occhionero, F. (eds) Birth of the Universe and Fundamental Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 455. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60024-8_109

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