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Fractal dimension constitutes the main tool to test for fractal patterns in Euclidean contexts. For this purpose, it is always used the box dimension, since it is easy to calculate, though the Hausdorff dimension, which is the oldest and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-08-07 Magdalena Nowak , Manuel Fernández-Martínez , Miguel Angel Sánchez-Granero

A novel fractal analysis of the cosmic web structure is carried out, employing the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, data release 7. We consider the large-scale stellar mass distribution, unlike other analyses, and determine its multifractal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Jose Gaite

We address the problem of morphological classification of galaxies from the Galaxy Zoo DECaLS dataset using classical machine learning techniques. Our approach employs a dimensionality reduction method followed by a classical classifier to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-23 Vasyl Semenov , Vitalii Tymchyshyn , Volodymyr Bezguba , Maksym Tsizh , Andrii Khlevniuk

In this work we explore the possibility of applying machine learning methods designed for one-dimensional problems to the task of galaxy image classification. The algorithms used for image classification typically rely on multiple costly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 F. Tarsitano , C. Bruderer , K. Schawinski , W. G. Hartley

The aim of this review article is to give a comprehensive description of the scaling properties detected for the distribution of cosmic structures. Due to the great variety of statistical methods to describe the large-scale structure of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefano Borgani

Holographic particle characterization uses quantitative analysis of holographic microscopy data to precisely and rapidly measure the diameter and refractive index of individual colloidal spheres in their native media. When this technique is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-19 Rafe Abdulali , Lauren E. Altman , David G. Grier

In this work, we propose a novel technique for obtaining descriptors of gray-level texture images. The descriptors are provided by applying a multiscale transform to the fractal dimension of the image estimated through the probability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-30 João Batista Florindo , Odemir Martinez Bruno

This study builds a bridge between two well-studied but distant topics: fractal dimension and Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS). DGGSs are used as covering sets for geospatial vector data to calculate the Minkowski-Bouligand dimension.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Pramit Ghosh

Algorithmic fractal dimensions quantify the algorithmic information density of individual points and may be defined in terms of Kolmogorov complexity. This work uses these dimensions to bound the classical Hausdorff and packing dimensions…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Neil Lutz

We describe new families of random fractals, referred to as "V-variable", which are intermediate between the notions of deterministic and of standard random fractals. The parameter V describes the degree of "variability" : at each…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Barnsley , John E. Hutchinson , Örjan Stenflo

Many young star clusters appear to be fractal, i.e. they appear to be concentrated in a nested hierarchy of clusters within clusters. We present a new algorithm for statistically analysing the distribution of stars to quantify the level of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-20 S. E. Jaffa , A. P. Whitworth , O. Lomax

We present the results of an exhaustive analysis of the morphological segregation of galaxies in the CfA and SSRS catalogs through the scaling formalism. Morphological segregation between ellipticals and spirals has been detected at scales…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 R. Dominguez-Tenreiro , A. Campos , M. A. Gómez-Flechoso , G. Yepes

Topological defects in the framework of effective quantum gravity model are investigated, based on the hypothesis of an effective fractal dimension of the universe. This is done by using Caputo fractional derivatives to determine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-29 Sebastien Fumeron , Malte Henkel , Alexander Lopez

We study the physical properties derived from interstellar cloud complexes having a fractal structure. We first generate fractal clouds with a given fractal dimension and associate each clump with a maximum in the resulting density field.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nestor Sanchez , Emilio J. Alfaro , Enrique Perez

We report our analysis of the properties of galaxy clustering for a new redshift sample of galaxies, the CfA2-South catalog, using statistical methods which do not rely on the assumption of homogeneity. We find that, up to ~ 20 Mpc/h, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Joyce , M. Montuori , F. Sylos Labini

We applied computer analysis to classify the broad morphological type of ~3,000,000 SDSS galaxies. The catalog provides for each galaxy the DR8 object ID, right ascension, declination, and the certainty of the automatic classification to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-20 Evan Kuminski , Lior Shamir

Modern redshift surveys such as the 2 degree field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) reveal the fully 3 dimensional distribution of a million or so galaxies over a large cosmological volume. Visually…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Jatush V. Sheth , Varun Sahni

Hausdorff dimension of level sets of generic continuous functions defined on fractals can give information about the "thickness/narrow cross-sections" "network" corresponding to a fractal set, $F$. This lead to the definition of the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Zoltán Buczolich , Balázs Maga

We apply four statistical learning methods to a sample of $7941$ galaxies ($z<0.06$) from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to test the feasibility of using automated algorithms to classify galaxies. Using $10$ features measured…

Quantitative morphological classification of galaxies is important for understanding the origin of type frequency and correlations with environment. But galaxy morphological classification is still mainly done visually by dedicated…