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A stochastic model relating the parameters of astrophysical structures to the parameters of their granular components is applied to the formation of hierarchical, large-scale structures from galaxies assumed as point-like objects. If the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-20 S. Capozziello , S. Funkhouser

This article deals with the estimation of fractal dimension of spatio-temporal patterns that are generated by numerically solving the Swift Hohenberg (SH) equation. The patterns were converted into a spatial series (analogous to time…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-11-03 Debasmita Banerjee , Amit Kumar Jha , A. N. Sekar Iyengar , M. S. Janaki

Most of the known methods for estimating the fractal dimension of fractal sets are based on the evaluation of a single geometric characteristic, e.g. the volume of its parallel sets. We propose a method involving the evaluation of several…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Evgeny Spodarev , Peter Straka , Steffen Winter

The classification of galaxies as spirals or ellipticals is a crucial task in understanding their formation and evolution. With the arrival of large-scale astronomical surveys, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), astronomers now…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Anusha Guruprasad

The universe is composed of galaxies that have diverse shapes. Once the structure of a galaxy is determined, it is possible to obtain important information about its formation and evolution. Morphologically classifying galaxies means…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-23 N. M. Cardoso , G. B. O. Schwarz , L. O. Dias , C. R. Bom , L. Sodré , C. Mendes de Oliveira

Estimates of the fractal dimension $D$ of the set of galaxies in the universe, based on ever improving data sets, tend to settle on $D\approx 2$. This result raised a raging debate due to its glaring contradiction with astrophysical models…

Morphological classification is a key piece of information to define samples of galaxies aiming to study the large-scale structure of the universe. In essence, the challenge is to build up a robust methodology to perform a reliable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-05 P. H. Barchi , R. R. de Carvalho , R. R. Rosa , R. Sautter , M. Soares-Santos , B. A. D. Marques , E. Clua , T. S. Gonçalves , C. de Sá-Freitas , T. C. Moura

Morphological classification conveys abundant information on the formation, evolution, and environment of galaxies. In this work, we refine the two-step galaxy morphological classification framework ({\tt\string USmorph}), which employs a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-25 Jie Song , GuanWen Fang , Shuo Ba , Zesen Lin , Yizhou Gu , Chichun Zhou , Tao Wang , Cai-Na Hao , Guilin Liu , Hongxin Zhang , Yao Yao , Xu Kong

We present here a new method, MMF, for automatically segmenting cosmic structure into its basic components: clusters, filaments, and walls. Importantly, the segmentation is scale independent, so all structures are identified without…

By applying our previously developed two-step scheme for galaxy morphology classification, we present a catalog of galaxy morphology for H-band selected massive galaxies in the COSMOS-DASH field, which includes 17292 galaxies with stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-07 Yao Dai , Jun Xu , Jie Song , Guanwen Fang , Chichun Zhou , Shuo Ba , Yizhou Gu , Zesen Lin , Xu Kong

The main goal of this paper has a double purpose. On the one hand, we propose a new definition in order to compute the fractal dimension of a subset respect to any fractal structure, which completes the theory of classical box-counting…

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

This paper discusses if large scale galaxy distribution samples containing almost one million objects can be characterized as fractal systems. The analysis performed by Teles et al. (2021; arXiv:2012.07164) on the UltraVISTA DR1 survey is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Sharon Teles , Amanda R. Lopes , Marcelo B. Ribeiro

Observations of galaxies over large distances reveal the possibility of a fractal distribution of their positions. The source of fractal behavior is the lack of a length scale in the two body gravitational interaction. However, even with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruce N. Miller , Jean-Louis Rouet , Emmanuel Le Guirriec

A fractal is in essence a hierarchy with cascade structure, which can be described with a set of exponential functions. From these exponential functions, a set of power laws indicative of scaling can be derived. Hierarchy structure and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-07-13 Yanguang Chen

Building upon [1], this study aims to introduce fractal geometry into graph theory, and to establish a potential theoretical foundation for complex networks. Specifically, we employ the method of substitution to create and explore…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Nero Ziyu Li

The distribution of visible matter in the universe, such as galaxies and galaxy clusters, has its origin in the week fluctuations of density that existed at the epoch of recombination. The hierarchical distribution of the universe, with its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-21 Bruce N. Miller , Jean-Louis Rouet , Yui Shiozawa

The present work shows a novel fractal dimension method for shape analysis. The proposed technique extracts descriptors from the shape by applying a multiscale approach to the calculus of the fractal dimension of that shape. The fractal…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-03 André R. Backes , João B. Florindo , Odemir M. Bruno

We study algorithmic problems on subsets of Euclidean space of low fractal dimension. These spaces are the subject of intensive study in various branches of mathematics, including geometry, topology, and measure theory. There are several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Anastasios Sidiropoulos , Vijay Sridhar

We present an application of Mathematical Morphology (MM) for the classification of astronomical objects, both for star/galaxy differentiation and galaxy morphology classification. We demonstrate that, for CCD images, 99.3 +/- 3.8 % of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Jason A. Moore , Kevin A. Pimbblet , Michael J. Drinkwater

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