We investigate the photon statistics of light whose intensity fluctuations are due to shot noise, such as occurs in certain kinds of luminescence involving multiplied-Poisson processes. The degrees of freedom and degeneracy parameters are obtained and contrasted with those for thermal light. The excess count variance for shot-noise light exhibits particle-like fluctuations and is maximized for large counting times. Radioluminescence photons produced in glass obey the Neyman type-A counting distribution predicted by the theory.
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