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We consider the problem of estimating a sparse precision matrix of a multivariate Gaussian distribution, including the case where the dimension $p$ is large. Gaussian graphical models provide an important tool in describing conditional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Sayantan Banerjee , Subhashis Ghosal

Context. An automatic tool to derive structural parameters of semi-resolved star clusters located in crowded stellar fields in nearby galaxies is needed for homogeneous processing of archival frames. Aims. We have developed a program that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-31 D. Narbutis , D. Semionov , R. Stonkutė , P. de Meulenaer , T. Mineikis , A. Bridžius , V. Vansevičius

Current models of galaxy formation applied to understanding the large-scale structure of the universe have two parts. The first is an accurate solution of the equations of motion for the dark matter due to gravitational clustering. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Roman Scoccimarro , Ravi K. Sheth

A statistical study of global galaxy parameters can help to improve our understanding of galaxy formation processes. In this paper we present the analysis of global galaxy parameters based on optical and near-infrared observations of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. de Grijs

We propose a novel approach to estimating the precision matrix of multivariate Gaussian data that relies on decomposing them into a low-rank and a diagonal component. Such decompositions are very popular for modeling large covariance…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-18 Noirrit Kiran Chandra , Peter Mueller , Abhra Sarkar

I review the standard paradigm for understanding the formation and evolution of cosmic structure, based on the gravitational instability of dark matter, but many variations on this basic theme are viable. Despite the great progress that has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Coles

We demonstrate that generative deep learning can translate galaxy observations across ultraviolet, visible, and infrared photometric bands. Leveraging mock observations from the Illustris simulations, we develop and validate a supervised…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 Youssef Zaazou , Alex Bihlo , Terrence S. Tricco

This work proposes $\mu$GUIDE: a general Bayesian framework to estimate posterior distributions of tissue microstructure parameters from any given biophysical model or MRI signal representation, with exemplar demonstration in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Maëliss Jallais , Marco Palombo

I introduce $Profiler$, a new, user-friendly program written in $Python$ and designed to analyse the radial surface brightness profiles of galaxies. With an intuitive graphical user interface, $Profiler$ can accurately model a wide range of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Bogdan C. Ciambur

Graph pattern mining (GPM) is an important application that identifies structures from graphs. Despite the recent progress, the performance gap between the state-of-the-art GPM systems and an efficient algorithm--pattern decomposition--is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Jingji Chen , Xuehai Qian

The analysis of large molecular line surveys of the Galactic plane is essential for our understanding of the gas kinematics on Galactic scales, in particular its link with the formation and evolution of dense structures in the interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-25 M. Riener , J. Kainulainen , H. Beuther , J. D. Henshaw , J. H. Orkisz , Y. Wang

Cosmological galaxy formation simulations are still limited by their spatial/mass resolution and cannot model from first principles some of the processes, like star formation, that are key in driving galaxy evolution. As a consequence they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-02 Andrea V. Macciò , Mohamad Ali-Dib , Pavle Vulanović , Hind Al Noori , Fabian Walter , Nico Krieger , Tobias Buck

We present a new approach to constrain galaxy physical parameters from the combined interpretation of stellar and nebular emission in wide ranges of observations. This approach relies on the Bayesian analysis of any type of galaxy spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Camilla Pacifici , Stephane Charlot , Jeremy Blaizot , Jarle Brinchmann

Decaying or annihilating dark matter particles could be detected through gamma-ray emission from the species they decay or annihilate into. This is usually done by modelling the flux from specific dark matter-rich objects such as the Milky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-01 Deaglan J. Bartlett , Andrija Kostić , Harry Desmond , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux

Deep imaging programs, such as MATLAS which has just been completed at the CFHT, allows us to study with their diffuse light the outer stellar populations around large number of galaxies. We have carried out a systematic census of their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Pierre-Alain Duc

The gravitational microlensing method of discovering exoplanets and multi-star systems can produce degenerate solutions, some of which require in-depth analysis to uncover. We propose a new parameter space that can be used to sample…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-16 Kylie E. Hall , Jennifer C. Yee , In-Gu Shin , Hongjing Yang , Jiyuan Zhang

A number of theories, spanning a wide range of mass scales, predict dark matter candidates that have lifetimes much longer than the age of the universe, yet may produce a significant flux of gamma rays in their decays today. We constrain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hasan Yuksel , Matthew D. Kistler

The large-scale imaging survey will produce massive photometric data in multi-bands for billions of galaxies. Defining strategies to quickly and efficiently extract useful physical information from this data is mandatory. Among the stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-04 Xiaotong Guo , Guanwen Fang , Haicheng Feng , Rui Zhang

Modern galaxy surveys demand extensive survey volumes and resolutions surpassing current dark matter-only simulations' capabilities. To address this, many methods employ effective bias models on the dark matter field to approximate object…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 Daniel Forero-Sánchez , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Francesco Sinigaglia , Jose María Coloma-Nadal , Jean-Paul Kneib