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Reconstructing cosmological fields using tessellation methods

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Astronomical observations, physical experiments as well as computer simulations often involve discrete data sets supposed to represent a fair sample of an underlying smooth and continuous field. Reconstructing the underlying fields from a set of irregularly sampled data is therefore a recurring key issue in operations on astronomical data sets. Conventional methods involve artificial filtering through a grid or a smoothing kernel and fail to achieve an optimal result. Here we describe a fully self-adaptive geometric method which does not make use of artificial filtering, and which makes optimal use of the available information.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0108493,
  title  = {Reconstructing cosmological fields using tessellation methods},
  author = {W. E. Schaap and R. van de Weygaert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0108493},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

2 pages, 2 figures, contribution to ``Where's the Matter? Tracing Dark and Bright Matter with the New Generation of Large Scale Surveys'', Eds. Treyer & Tresse, 2001, Frontier Group