#gamma‑ray telescopes

Statistical treatment of searches for counterparts of positionally-uncertain astrophysical sources: from flux upper limits to detection

Julian Sitarek, Abelardo Moralejo, Juan Jiménez Quiles +3

The paper compares frequentist, Bayesian, and agnostic statistical methods for analyzing follow‑up observations of poorly localized astrophysical alerts, such as gravitational‑wave…