Bandwidth selection is an unresolved (and possibly unsolvable) problem in smoothing, so you're perfectly justified in trying/choosing an arbitrary value if it produces good pictures!
-- Adrian Baddeley (answering a user's question about the choice of smoothing parameter when using the density.ppp() function from the spatstat package)
private communication (March 2013) #Rstats
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