Products of (spatial) non-homogenous Poisson random variables.

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I have a non-homogeneous Poisson point process $X = (x_k, y_k)$ with intensity parameter $\lambda(x,y)$. For any two random points $(x_i,y_i)$ and $(x_j, y_j)$, I am forming the (product) random variables, $R_1 = x_ix_j+y_iy_j$, basically a dot product, and $R_2 = x_iy_j-x_jy_i$. I am trying to understand the distribution of $R1$ and $R2$.

In the case of homogenous Poisson process with a constant intensity $\lambda$, I get the following density plot for $R1$:

Density of R1 in the case of constant intensity

This resonates with the following post that suggests approximating the PDF of the product of normal random variables by modified Bessel function of the second kind. If $\lambda$ is sufficiently large, then homogenous Poisson is approximately normal and so this kinda makes sense. But for small $\lambda$ or in the case of non-homogenous Poisson, I am not sure if there is an analytic formula (or distribution) for the PDF of $R1$ and $R2$.

Disclaimer: I am not a mathematician/statistician but a biologist trying to learn some stats through programming. Thanks!