English
Related papers

Related papers: The Anatomy of the Column Density Probability Dist…

200 papers

A new and simple statistical approach is performed to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon in terms of light-front kinematic variables. We do not put in any extra arbitrary parameter or corrected term by hand,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-12 Yunhua Zhang , Lijing Shao , Bo-Qiang Ma

We show that the parton distribution functions (PDF) described by the statistical model have very interesting physical properties which help to understand the structure of partons. The role of the quark helicity components is emphasized as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-28 Claude Bourrely

I propose a method to fit the probability distribution function (hereafter PDF) of the large scale density field rho, motivated by a Lagrangian version of the continuity equation. It consists in applying the Edgeworth expansion to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 S. Colombi

Determining the atomic and molecular content of the interstellar medium (ISM) as a function of environmental parameters is of fundamental importance to understand the star-formation process across the epochs. Although there exist various…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Thomas G. Bisbas , Ewine F. van Dishoeck , Chia-Yu Hu , Andreas Schruba

We present a neural network classification (NNC) method for photometric redshift estimation that produces well-calibrated redshift probability density functions (PDFs). The method discretizes the redshift space into ordered bins and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-08 Da-Chuan Tian , Zhong-Lue Wen , Jun-Qing Xia

Container ships encounter large roll angles and high acceleration, and container loss remains a problem. This study proposes a method for calculating the probability density function~(PDF) of roll angular and cargo lateral accelerations.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Yuuki Maruyama , Atsuo Maki , Leo Dostal , Naoya Umeda

The statistical properties of the $E \times B$ flux in different types of plasma turbulence simulations are investigated using probability density distribution functions (PDF). The physics included in the models ranges from two dimensional…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Volker Naulin , Odd Erik Garcia , Anders Henry Nielsen , Jens Juul Rasmussen

I apply the well controlled Hydro-PM approximation of Gnedin & Hui to model the column density distribution of the Lyman-alpha forest for 25 different flat cosmological scenarios, including variants of the standard CDM, tilted CDM, CDM with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Nickolay Y. Gnedin

The interstellar medium (ISM) exhibits complex, multi-scale structures that are challenging to study due to their projection into two-dimensional (2D) column density maps. We present the Volume Density Mapper, a novel algorithm based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Guang-Xing Li , Mengke Zhao

Reliable density estimation is fundamental for numerous applications in statistics and machine learning. In many practical scenarios, data are best modeled as mixtures of component densities that capture complex and multimodal patterns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mustafa Musab , Joseph K. Chege , Arie Yeredor , Martin Haardt

We analyse the distribution of CO brightness temperature and integrated intensity in M51 at ~40 pc resolution using new CO data from the Plateau de Bure Arcsecond Whirlpool Survey (PAWS). We present probability distribution functions (PDFs)…

This paper delves into the significance of the tomographic probability density function (pdf) representation of quantum states, shedding light on the special classes of pdfs that can be tomograms. Instead of using wave functions or density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 L. A. Markovich , J. Urbanetz , V. I. Man'ko

Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) model the parton content of the proton. Among the many collaborations which focus on PDF determination, NNPDF pioneered the use of Neural Networks to model the probability of finding partons (quarks and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Juan M Cruz-Martinez , Stefano Carrazza , Roy Stegeman

We introduce the state-of-the-art deep learning Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) as a method to infer the volume or number density of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) from projected mass surface density maps. We adopt…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Duo Xu , Jonathan C. Tan , Chia-Jung Hsu , Ye Zhu

We present a method for predicting the space group of a structure given a calculated or measured atomic pair distribution function (PDF) from that structure. The method utilizes machine learning models trained on more than 100,000 PDFs…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-21 Chia-Hao Liu , Yunzhe Tao , Daniel Hsu , Qiang Du , Simon J. L. Billinge

Time series analysis allows for the determination of the Power Spectral Density (PSD) and Probability Density Function (PDF) for astrophysical sources. The former of these illustrates the distribution of power at various timescales,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Paul J. Morris , Nachiketa Chakraborty , Garret Cotter

Mathematical models based on probability density functions (PDF) have been extensively used in hydrology and subsurface flow problems, to describe the uncertainty in porous media properties (e.g., permeability modelled as random field).…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-01 Matteo Icardi , Marco Dentz

The determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) is crucial for a complete understanding of the protons and neutrons that make most of the visible matter in the universe. Years of dedicated studies have yielded a quite precise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-02 Pia Zurita

We develop a method to calculate the column density distribution of the Lyman-alpha forest for column densities in the range $10^{12.5} - 10^{14.5} cm^{-2}$. The Zel'dovich approximation, with appropriate smoothing, is used to compute the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Lam Hui , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Yu Zhang

Granular column collapses result in an array of flow phenomena and deposition morphologies, the understanding of which brings insights into studying granular flows in both natural and engineering systems. Guided by experiments, we carried…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Teng Man , Herbert E. Huppert , Ling Li , Sergio Andres Galindo-Torres