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We construct a filament catalogue using an extension of the halo based filament finder of Zhang et al.(2009), in a 250 Mpc/h side N-body simulation, and study the properties of filaments ending upon or surrounding galaxy clusters (within 10…

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The skeleton formalism aims at extracting and quantifying the filamentary structure of the universe is generalized to 3D density fields; a numerical method for computating a local approximation of the skeleton is presented and validated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Sousbie , C. Pichon , S. Colombi , D. Novikov , D. Pogosyan

We present a method for determining directions of magnetic field vectors in a spiral galaxy using two synchrotron polarization maps, an optical image, and a velocity field. The orientation of the transverse magnetic field is determined with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-18 Hiroyuki Nakanishi , Kohei Kurahara , Kenta Anraku

Considering the spatially separated polarization radiation and Faraday rotation regions to simulate complex interstellar media, we study synchrotron polarization gradient techniques' measurement capabilities. We explore how to trace the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Ru-Yue Wang , Jian-Fu Zhang , Alex Lazarian , Hua-Ping Xiao , Fu-Yuan Xiang

Edge detection is widely and fundamental feature used in various algorithms in computer vision to determine the edges in an image. The edge detection algorithm is used to determine the edges in an image which are further used by various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Victor Bogdan , Cosmin Bonchiş , Ciprian Orhei

We present a new algorithm to detect inter-cluster galaxy filaments based upon the assumption that the orientations of constituent galaxies along such filaments are non-isotropic. We apply the algorithm to the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kevin A. Pimbblet

In the cosmic web, filaments play a crucial role in connecting walls to clusters and also act as an important stage for galaxy formation and evolution. Recent observational studies claim that filaments have spin. In this study, we examined…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Xiao-Xiao Tang , Peng Wang , Wei Wang , Ming-Jie Sheng , Hao-Ran Yu , Haojie Xu

Quantitative analysis methods based on the usage of a scanning electron microscope (SEM), such as energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy, often require specimens to have a flat surface oriented normal to the electron beam. In-situ procedures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Clay Klein , Chunfei Li

Context. Filaments are ubiquitous in the Galaxy, and they host star formation. Detecting them in a reliable way is therefore key towards our understanding of the star formation process. Aims. We explore whether supervised machine learning…

Super-resolution imaging based on single molecule localization allows accessing nanometric-scale information in biological samples with high precision. However, complete measurements including molecule orientation are still challenging.…

In this study, we classify the magnetic chirality of solar filaments from H-Alpha observations using state-of-the-art image classification models. We establish the first reproducible baseline for solar filament chirality classification on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Alexis Chalmers , Azim Ahmadzadeh

Solar filaments are well-known tracers of polarity inversion lines that separate two opposite magnetic polarities on the solar photosphere. Because observations of filaments began long before the systematic observations of solar magnetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 V. Kisielius , E. Illarionov

External magnetic fields are known to attract and orient magnetically responsive colloidal particles. In the case of 2D microplatelets, rotating magnetic fields are typically used to orient them parallel to each other in a brick-and-mortar…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-14 Hortense Le Ferrand , Andres F. Arrieta

We present 850 $\mu$m polarimetric observations toward the Serpens Main molecular cloud obtained using the POL-2 polarimeter on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) as part of the B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-02 Woojin Kwon , Kate Pattle , Sarah Sadavoy , Charles L. H. Hull , Doug Johnstone , Derek Ward-Thompson , James Di Francesco , Patrick M. Koch , Ray Furuya , Yasuo Doi , Valentin J. M. Le Gouellec , Jihye Hwang , A-Ran Lyo , Archana Soam , Xindi Tang , Thiem Hoang , Florian Kirchschlager , Chakali Eswaraiah , Lapo Fanciullo , Kyoung Hee Kim , Takashi Onaka , Vera Könyves , Ji-hyun Kang , Chang Won Lee , Motohide Tamura , Pierre Bastien , Tetsuo Hasegawa , Shih-Ping Lai , Keping Qiu , David Berry , Doris Arzoumanian , Tyler L. Bourke , Do-Young Byun , Wen Ping Chen , Huei-Ru Vivien Chen , Mike Chen , Zhiwei Chen , Tao-Chung Ching , Jungyeon Cho , Yunhee Choi , Minho Choi , Antonio Chrysostomou , Eun Jung Chung , Simon Coudé , Sophia Dai , Pham Ngoc Diep , Yan Duan , Hao-Yuan Duan , David Eden , Jason Fiege , Laura M. Fissel , Erica Franzmann , Per Friberg , Rachel Friesen , Gary Fuller , Tim Gledhill , Sarah Graves , Jane Greaves , Matt Griffin , Qilao Gu , Ilseung Han , Jennifer Hatchell , Saeko Hayashi , Martin Houde , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Kazunari Iwasaki , Il-Gyo Jeong , Miju Kang , Janik Karoly , Akimasa Kataoka , Koji Kawabata , Francisca Kemper , Kee-Tae Kim , Gwanjeong Kim , Mi-Ryang Kim , Shinyoung Kim , Jongsoo Kim , Jason Kirk , Masato I. N. Kobayashi , Takayoshi Kusune , Jungmi Kwon , Kevin Lacaille , Chi-Yan Law , Chin-Fei Lee , Yong-Hee Lee , Hyeseung Lee , Jeong-Eun Lee , Sang-Sung Lee , Dalei Li , Di Li , Hua-bai Li , Sheng-Jun Lin , Sheng-Yuan Liu , Hong-Li Liu , Junhao Liu , Tie Liu , Xing Lu , Steve Mairs , Masafumi Matsumura , Brenda Matthews , Gerald Moriarty-Schieven , Tetsuya Nagata , Fumitaka Nakamura , Hiroyuki Nakanishi , Nguyen Bich Ngoc , Nagayoshi Ohashi , Geumsook Park , Harriet Parsons , Nicolas Peretto , Felix Priestley , Tae-Soo Pyo , Lei Qian , Ramprasad Rao , Jonathan Rawlings , Mark G. Rawlings , Brendan Retter , John Richer , Andrew Rigby , Hiro Saito , Giorgio Savini , Masumichi Seta , Yoshito Shimajiri , Hiroko Shinnaga , Mehrnoosh Tahani , Ya-Wen Tang , Kohji Tomisaka , Le Ngoc Tram , Yusuke Tsukamoto , Serena Viti , Hongchi Wang , Jia-Wei Wang , Anthony Whitworth , Jintai Wu , Jinjin Xie , Hsi-Wei Yen , Hyunju Yoo , Jinghua Yuan , Hyeong-Sik Yun , Tetsuya Zenko , Yapeng Zhang , Chuan-Peng Zhang , Guoyin Zhang , Jianjun Zhou , Lei Zhu , Ilse de Looze , Philippe André , C. Darren Dowell , Stewart Eyres , Sam Falle , Jean-François Robitaille , Sven van Loo

The problem of detecting dark matter filaments in the cosmic web is considered. Weak lensing is an ideal probe of dark matter, and therefore forms the basis of particularly promising detection methods. We consider and develop a number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 James M. G. Mead , Lindsay J. King , Ian G. McCarthy

Research on magnetic particles dispersed in a fluid medium, actuated by a rotating magnetic field, is becoming increasingly active for both lab-on-chip and bio-sensing applications. In this study, we experimentally investigate the behaviour…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-25 Abdelqader Zaben , Guntars Kitenbergs , Andrejs Cēbers

High-spatial-resolution HI observations have led to the realisation that the nearby (within few hundreds of parsecs) Galactic atomic filamentary structures are aligned with the ambient magnetic field. Enabled by the high quality data from…

This paper describes a novel method for the estimation of the trajectory curve and orientation of a rigid body moving along a railway track. Compared to other recent developments in the literature, the presented approach has the significant…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-15 J. González-Carbajal , Pedro Urda , Sergio Muñoz , José L. Escalona

We present a new approach for matching regular surfaces in a Riemannian setting. We use a Sobolev type metric on deformation vector fields which form the tangent bundle to the space of surfaces. In this article we compare our approach with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-22 Martin Bauer , Martins Bruveris

Filaments are a key step on the path that leads from molecular clouds to star formation. However, their characteristics are heavily debated, and the exact processes that lead to their formation and fragmentation into dense cores still…