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We analyze the fractal dimension of open clusters using 3D spatial data from Gaia DR3 for 93 open clusters from Pang et al. (2024) and 127 open clusters from Hunt & Reffert (2024) within 500 pc. The box-counting method is adopted to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-05 Chang Qin , Xiaoying Pang , Mario Pasquato , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Antonella Vallenari

Many statistical methods have been proposed in the last years for analyzing the spatial distribution of galaxies. Very few of them, however, can handle properly the border effects of complex observational sample volumes. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Enn Saar , Vicent J. Martinez , Jean-Luc Starck , David L. Donoho

This work tests if the large-scale galaxy distribution can be characterized as a fractal system. The $\Lambda$CDM cosmology with $H_0=(70\pm 5)$ km/s/Mpc is adopted to study the UltraVISTA DR1, COSMOS2015 and SPLASH surveys, alongside the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Sharon Teles

Considering the GAIA data for {$\approx 10^6$} stars around the {barycenter,} we estimate the fractal dimension for different regions in the Milky Way. Then we use those fractal dimensions to calculate the gravitational potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-04 T Canavesi

Fractal structures emerge from statistical and hierarchical processes in urban development or network evolution. In a class of efficient and robust geographical networks, we derive the size distribution of layered areas, and estimate the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-20 Yukio Hayashi

We describe an image analysis supervised learning algorithm that can automatically classify galaxy images. The algorithm is first trained using a manually classified images of elliptical, spiral, and edge-on galaxies. A large set of image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Lior Shamir

About two-thirds of disk galaxies host spiral arms, ranging from well-delineated grand-design spirals to fragmented flocculent spiral galaxies. We introduce fractal dimension $D_B$ as a non-parametric measure to distinguish between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-07 Biju Saha , Subhadip Dutta , Arunima Banerjee

We devise improved photometric parameters for the morphological classification of galaxies using a bright sample from the First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In addition to using an elliptical aperture concentration index…

A class of simplified measures is constructed to capture the key features of generic spatio-temporally chaotic systems. A combined analytical and numerical investigation allows us to extablish the scaling beahviour of the fractal dimension…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Antonio Politi , Annette Witt

The traditional method of morphological classification, by visual inspection of images of uniform quality and by reference to standards for each type, is critically examined. The rate of agreement among traditional morphologists on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefano Andreon , Emmanuel Davoust

In this paper we explore the application of the pointwise dimension (PD) analysis as a large-scale structure descriptor to the RC3 catalog of galaxies (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991). This technique, which originated in the field of fractal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jason S. Best , Jane C. Charlton , Gottfried Mayer-Kress

We present a new non-parametric method to quantify morphologies of galaxies based on a particular family of learning machines called support vector machines. The method, that can be seen as a generalization of the classical CAS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Huertas-Company , D. Rouan , L. Tasca , G. Soucail , O. Le Fevre

Fractal behaviour, i.e. scale invariance in spatio-temporal dynamics, have been found to describe and model many systems in nature, in particular fluid mechanics and geophysical related geometrical objects, like the convective boundary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 S. de Franciscis , J. Pascual-Granado , J. C. Suárez , A. García Hernández , R. Garrido

Fractal surfaces are ubiquitous in nature as well as in the sciences. The examples range from the cloud boundaries to the corroded surfaces. Fractal dimension gives a measure of the irregularity in the object under study. We present a…

Geophysics · Physics 2014-12-10 Kiran M. Kolwankar , Nakul N. Karle

There are various notions of dimension in fractal geometry to characterise (random and non-random) subsets of $\mathbb R^d$. In this expository text, we discuss their analogues for infinite subsets of $\mathbb Z^d$ and, more generally, for…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Markus Heydenreich

An algorithm for calculating generalized fractal dimension of a time series using the general information function is presented. The algorithm is based on a strings sort technique and requires $O(N \log_2 N)$ computations. A rough estimate…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Yosef Ashkenazy

It is known that the gas has a fractal structure in a wide range of spatial scales with a fractal dimension that seems to be a constant around Df = 2.7. It is expected that stars forming from this fractal medium exhibit similar fractal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Nestor Sanchez , Emilio J. Alfaro

Fractal geometry proved to be an effective mathematical tool for exploring real geographical space based on digital maps and remote sensing images. Whether the fractal theory tool can be applied to abstract geographical space has not been…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-06 Yanguang Chen

Fractal dimension is widely adopted in spatial databases and data mining, among others as a measure of dataset skewness. State-of-the-art algorithms for estimating the fractal dimension exhibit linear runtime complexity whether based on…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-05-27 Christos Attikos , Michael Doumpos

Tissues are fractal due to its self-similar structure, and the fractal dimension change with the abnormalities such as in disease like cancer. The optical imaging of thin slices of tissue using transmission microscopy can produce an…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 Liam Elkington , Prakash Adhikari , Prabhakar Pradhan