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Journal
Description: 
We show that, in particular experimental conditions, the time course of the radiant fluxes, measured from a bioluminescent emission of a Vibrio harveyi related strain, collapse after suitable rescaling onto the Gumbel distribution of extreme value theory. We argue that the activation times of the strain luminous emission follow the universal behavior described by this statistical law, in spite of the fact that no extremal process is known to occur.
Publisher: 
American Institute of Physics
Publication date: 
16 Dec 2013
Authors: 

Domenico Delle Side, Luciano Velardi, Vincenzo Nassisi, Cecilia Pennetta, Pietro Alifano, Adelfia Talà, Maurizio Salvatore Tredici

Biblio References: 
Volume: 103 Issue: 25 Pages: 253702
Origin: 
Applied Physics Letters