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The Interstellar Medium has a fractal structure, in the sense that gas and dust distribute in a hierarchical and self-similar manner. Stars in new-born cluster probably follow the same fractal patterns of their parent molecular clouds.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-08-02 Nestor Sanchez , Emilio J. Alfaro

Fractals are a basic tool to phenomenologically describe natural objects having a high degree of temporal or spatial variability. From a physical point of view the fractal properties of natural systems can also be interpreted by using the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 C. S. Leung , J. Y. Wei , A. K. H. Kong , Z. Kovács , T. Harko

The multifractal geometry remains an under-exploited approach to describe and quantify the large-scale structure of interstellar clouds. In this paper, the typical tools of multifractal analysis are applied to Herschel far-infrared (70-500…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-09 D. Elia , F. Strafella , S. Dib , N. Schneider , P. Hennebelle , S. Pezzuto , S. Molinari , E. Schisano , S. E. Jaffa

This paper provides a new model to compute the fractal dimension of a subset on a generalized-fractal space. Recall that fractal structures are a perfect place where a new definition of fractal dimension can be given, so we perform a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-23 M. A. Sánchez-Granero , Manuel Fernández-Martínez

The image fractal analysis is actively used in all science branches. In particular in materials science the fractal analysis is applied to study microstructure of deformed metals because its structure can be interpreted as the fractal…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-01 Anatoliy Zavdoveev , Yan Beygelzimer , Victor Varyukhin , Boris Efros

Three-dimensional fractal models on grids of 200**3 pixels are generated from the inverse Fourier transform of noise with a power law cutoff, exponentiated to give a log normal distribution of density. The fractals are clipped at various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. G. Elmegreen

The fractal structure of real world objects is often analyzed using digital images. In this context, the compression fractal dimension is put forward. It provides a simple method for the direct estimation of the dimension of fractals stored…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-08-15 P. Chamorro-Posada

Several studies have investigated the fractal and multifractal nature of magnetic features in the solar photosphere and its variation with the solar magnetic activity cycle. Here we extend those studies by examining the fractal geometry of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Serena Criscuoli , Mark Rast , Ilaria Ermolli , Mauro Centrone

We study domain walls in 2d Ising spin glasses in terms of a minimum-weight path problem. Using this approach, large systems can be treated exactly. Our focus is on the fractal dimension $d_f$ of domain walls, which describes via $<\ell…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Melchert , A. K. Hartmann

We provide a rigorous study on dimensions of fractal interpolation function defined on a closed and bounded interval of $\mathbb{R}$ which is associated to a continuous function with respect to a base function, scaling functions and a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-01 S. Verma , S. Jha

We present a study of the structure of the Galactic interstellar medium through the Delta-variance technique, related to the power spectrum and the fractal properties of infrared/sub-mm maps. Through this method, it is possible to provide…

The structure of the large scale distribution of the galaxies have been widely studied since the publication of the first catalogs. Since large redshift samples are available, their analyses seem to show fractal correlations up to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marie-Noelle Celerier , Reuben Thieberger

The gas clouds of the interstellar medium have a fractal structure, the origin of which has generally been thought to lie in turbulence. The energy of turbulence could come from galactic rotation at large-scale, then cascade down to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 H. J. de Vega , N. Sánchez , F. Combes

We propose a novel method to measure the fractal dimension of a submonolayer metal adatom system grown under conditions of limited diffusivity on a surface. The method is based on measuring the specular peak attenuation of He atoms…

chem-ph · Physics 2009-10-28 D. A. Hamburger , A. T. Yinnon , R. B. Gerber

We describe the fractal solid by a special continuous medium model. We propose to describe the fractal solid by a fractional continuous model, where all characteristics and fields are defined everywhere in the volume but they follow some…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-03-12 Vasily E. Tarasov

Fractal geometry provides a powerful tool for scale-free spatial analysis of cities, but the fractal dimension calculation results always depend on methods and scopes of study area. This phenomenon has been puzzling many researchers. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-07 Yanguang Chen

Due to the fractal nature of retinal blood vessels, the retinal fractal dimension is a natural parameter for researchers to explore and has garnered interest as a potential diagnostic tool. This review aims to summarize the current…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-25 Sam Yu , Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

Quantitative analysis of the structure of star clusters is crucial for understanding their formation and evolution. In this article, we explore the application of fractal dimension analysis to study the evolution of star clusters, also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-01 N. Ussipov , A. Akhmetali , M. Zaidyn , A. Akniyazova , A. Sakan , M. Kalambay , B. Shukirgaliyev

Recent results from a number of redshift surveys suggest that the Universe is well described by an inhomogeneous, fractal distribution on the largest scales probed. This distribution has been found to have fractal dimension, D,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. J. Hatton

In this work we quantify the degree to which star-forming events are clumped. We apply a precise and accurate technique to calculate the correlation dimension Dc of the distribution of HII regions in a sample of disk galaxies. Our reliable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-08 Nestor Sanchez , Emilio J. Alfaro