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The rarefied flow and multi-scale flow are crucial for the aerodynamic design of spacecraft, ultra-low orbital vehicles and plumes. By introducing a discrete velocity space, the Boltzmann method, such as the discrete velocity method and…

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Conditional flow matching (CFM) has emerged as a powerful framework for training continuous normalizing flows due to its computational efficiency and effectiveness. However, standard CFM often produces paths that deviate significantly from…

We introduce an ingenious approach to explore cosmological implications of higher-derivative gravity theories. The key novelty lies in the characterization of the additional massive spin-0 modes constructed from Hubble derivatives as an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 H. Khodabakhshi , M. Farhang , F. Shojai , H. Lü

Cosmological inflation is a popular paradigm for understanding Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR); however, it faces many conceptual challenges. An alternative mechanism to inflation for generating an almost scale-invariant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 S. Mahesh Chandran , S. Shankaranarayanan

Although bulk peculiar motions are commonplace in the universe, most theoretical studies either bypass them, or take the viewpoint of the idealised Hubble-flow observers. As a result, the role of these peculiar flows remains largely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-24 C. G. Tsagas , M. I. Kadiltzoglou , K. Asvesta

We apply the Velocity Distribution Function (VDF) to a sample of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ)-selected clusters, and we report preliminary cosmological constraints in the $\sigma_8$-$\Omega_m$ cosmological parameter space. The VDF is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Michelle Ntampaka , Ken Rines , Hy Trac

We introduce a new estimator of the peculiar velocity of a galaxy or group of galaxies from redshift and distance estimates. This estimator results in peculiar velocity estimates which are statistically unbiased and that have errors that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Richard Watkins , Hume A. Feldman

We analyze the origin of the large-scale bulk flow using the CosmicFlows-4 (CF4) peculiar-velocity catalog. We decompose the observed motions into internal components, generated by mass fluctuations within 200 Mpc/h, and external ones…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Richard Watkins , Hume A. Feldman

Bulk flow velocities are typically estimated in the idealised picture where observers are moving within a perfectly homogeneous and isotropic space-time. This picture is consistent within standard perturbation theory up to relativistic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-22 Asta Heinesen

We have investigated the possibility of inferring peculiar velocities for clusters of galaxies from the Doppler shift of scattered cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons. We find that if the core radius of the gas distribution or the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Martin G. Haehnelt , Max Tegmark

I review the recent developments in the analysis of cosmic flow data, in particular, latest results of bulk flow measurements, comparison between redshift and peculiar velocity catalogs with emphasis on the measured value of the $\beta…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Saleem Zaroubi

This is a somewhat extended version of the original July 93 report. It is proved that the cosmological density perturbation is associated with a peculiar velocity field. This allows a simple formulation of cosmological perturbation theory,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-01 Marco Bruni , David H. Lyth

Estimation, recognition, and near-future prediction of 3D trajectories based on their two dimensional projections available from one camera source is an exceptionally difficult problem due to uncertainty in the trajectories and environment,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Haitham Bou Ammar , Luis Puig , Eric Eaton , Antonio Liotta

Variational Bayes (VB), also known as independent mean-field approximation, has become a popular method for Bayesian network inference in recent years. Its application is vast, e.g. in neural network, compressed sensing, clustering, etc. to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Viet Hung Tran

An extended framework of gravity, in which the first Friedmann equation is satisfied up to some constant due to violation of gauge invariance, is tested against astrophysical data: Supernovae Type-Ia, Cosmic Chronometers, and Gamma-ray…

General Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Balakrishna S. Haridasu , S. L. Cherkas , V. L. Kalashnikov

Cosmological linear perturbation theory predicts that the peculiar velocity $V(x)$ and the matter overdensity $\delta(x)$ at a same point $x$ are statistically independent quantities, as log as the initial density fluctuations are random…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Naoki Seto

We present analysis of local large scale flows using the Surface Brightness Fluctuation (SBF) Survey for the distances to 300 early-type galaxies. Our models of the distribution function of mean velocity and velocity dispersion at each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-04 John L. Tonry , John P. Blakeslee , Edward A. Ajhar , Alan Dressler

We present a new Unbiased Minimal Variance (UMV) estimator for the purpose of reconstructing the large--scale structure of the universe from noisy, sparse and incomplete data. Similar to the Wiener Filter (WF), the UMV estimator is derived…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Saleem Zaroubi

Surveys of galaxy distances and radial peculiar velocities can be used to reconstruct the large scale structure. Other than systematic errors in the zero-point calibration of the galaxy distances the main source of uncertainties of such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Yehuda Hoffman , Adi Nusser , Aurelien Valade , Noam I. Libeskind , R. Brent Tully

A formalism that simultaneously searches for the monopolar and dipolar peculiar velocities is presented. The formalism is applied to (1) the Mark III catalogue, (2) Lauer and Postman's Abell cluster catalogue, and (3) Riess et al.'s Type Ia…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Xiangdong Shi