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This paper describes a new approach to the optimization of information extraction in multi-wavelength image cubes of cosmological fields. The objective is to create a framework for the automatic identification and tagging of sources…

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We present a new method for the analysis of images, a fundamental task in observational astronomy. It is based on the linear decomposition of each object in the image into a series of localised basis functions of different shapes, which we…

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Extracting cosmological parameters from galaxy/halo catalogues with sub-percent level accuracy is an important aspect of modern cosmology, especially in view of ongoing and upcoming surveys such as Euclid, DESI, and LSST. While traditional…

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Continuous wavelet analysis is gaining popularity in science and engineering for its ability to analyze data across spatial and scale domains simultaneously. In this study, we introduce a wavelet-based method to identify halos and assess…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 Minxing Li , Yun Wang , Ping He

Clustering of high-dimensional data sets is a growing need in artificial intelligence, machine learning and pattern recognition. In this paper, we propose a new clustering method based on a combinatorial-topological approach applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Mauricio Toledo-Acosta , Luis Ángel Ramos-García , Jorge Hermosillo-Valadez

We measure the clustering of dark matter halos in a large set of collisionless cosmological simulations of the flat LCDM cosmology. Halos are identified using the spherical overdensity algorithm, which finds the mass around isolated peaks…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jeremy L. Tinker , Brant E. Robertson , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Anatoly Klypin , Michael S. Warren , Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottlober

In this paper we explore the use of spatial clustering algorithms as a new computational approach for modeling the cosmic web. We demonstrate that such algorithms are efficient in terms of computing time needed. We explore three distinct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Dimitrios Kelesis , Spyros Basilakos , Vicky Papadopoulou Lesta , Dimitris Fotakis , Andreas Efstathiou

Over the last few years, crystalline topology has been used in photonic crystals to realize edge- and corner-localized states that enhance light-matter interactions for potential device applications. However, the band-theoretic approaches…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-23 Alexander Cerjan , Terry A. Loring , Hermann Schulz-Baldes

This work explores the ability of computer vision algorithms to characterise dark matter haloes formed in different models of structure formation. We produce surface mass density maps of the most massive haloes in a suite of eight numerical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Julian Merten , Quim Llorens , Hans Winther

The Materials Project crystal structure database has been searched for materials possessing layered motifs in their crystal structures using a topology-scaling algorithm. The algorithm identifies and measures the sizes of bonded atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-08 Michael Ashton , Joshua Paul , Susan B. Sinnott , Richard G. Hennig

We present a novel method to significantly speed up cosmological parameter sampling. The method relies on constructing an interpolation of the CMB-log-likelihood based on sparse grids, which is used as a shortcut for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mona Frommert , Dirk Pflueger , Thomas Riller , Martin Reinecke , Hans-Joachim Bungartz , Torsten Ensslin

Universe models with compact spatial sections smaller than the observable universe produce a topological lens effect. Given a catalog of cosmic sources, we estimate the number of topological images in locally hyperbolic and locally elliptic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Lehoucq , Jean-Pierre Luminet , Jean-Philippe Uzan

We describe the topological cluster classification (TCC) algorithm. The TCC detects local structures with bond topologies similar to isolated clusters which minimise the potential energy for a number of monatomic and binary simple liquids…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-25 Alex Malins , Stephen R. Williams , Jens Eggers , C. Patrick Royall

Context. Medium-resolution IFS, such as MUSE at the VLT, are equipped to detect the emission lines of faint accreting companions when associated with dedicated stellar halo subtraction methods. We recently proposed a new approach based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 R. Julo , M. Bonnefoy , F. Chatelain , O. Flasseur , O. J. J. Michel , S. Jorquera , P. Delorme , G. Chauvin

We use machine learning algorithms to detect the crystalline phase in undercooled melts in molecular dynamics simulations. Our classification method is based on local conformation and environmental fingerprints of individual monomers. In…

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We present a new algorithm for identifying dark matter halos, substructure, and tidal features. The approach is based on adaptive hierarchical refinement of friends-of-friends groups in six phase-space dimensions and one time dimension,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-15 Peter S. Behroozi , Risa H. Wechsler , Hao-Yi Wu

We describe a new method (\textsc{CompaSO}) for identifying groups of particles in cosmological $N$-body simulations. \textsc{CompaSO} builds upon existing spherical overdensity (SO) algorithms by taking into consideration the tidal radius…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Daniel Eisenstein , Sownak Bose , Lehman H. Garrison , Nina Maksimova

We demonstrate the capabilities of probabilistic diffusion models to reduce dramatically the computational cost of expensive hydrodynamical simulations to study the relationship between observable baryonic cosmological probes and dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Satvik Mishra , Roberto Trotta , Matteo Viel

Despite compelling theoretical arguments, the use of clusters as cosmological probes is, in practice, frequently questioned because of the many uncertainties impinging on cluster mass estimates. Our aim is to develop a fully self-consistent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 M. Pierre , A. Valotti , L. Faccioli , N. Clerc , R. Gastaud , E. Koulouridis , F. Pacaud

We present a modified version of the cosmic crystallography method, especially useful for testing closed models of negative spatial curvature. The images of clusters of galaxies in simulated catalogs are ``pulled back'' to the fundamental…

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