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We present a new cluster detection algorithm designed for finding high-redshift clusters using optical/infrared imaging data. The algorithm has two main characteristics. First, it utilises each galaxy's full redshift probability function,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Caroline van Breukelen , Lee Clewley

The super-parametric density estimators and its related algorism were suggested by Y. -S. Tsai et al [7]. The number of parameters is unlimited in the super- parametric estimators and it is a general theory in sense of unifying or…

Computation · Statistics 2008-11-07 Yeong-Shyeong Tsai , Ying-Lin Hsu , Mung-Chung Shung

Face clustering plays an essential role in exploiting massive unlabeled face data. Recently, graph-based face clustering methods are getting popular for their satisfying performances. However, they usually suffer from excessive memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Junfu Liu , Di Qiu , Pengfei Yan , Xiaolin Wei

We present a new method for measuring the projected mass distributions of galaxy clusters. The gravitational amplification is measured by comparing the joint distribution in redshift and magnitude of galaxies behind the cluster with that of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 T. J. Broadhurst , A. N. Taylor , J. A. Peacock

Star-forming regions presenting a density gradient experience a higher star formation rate than if they were of uniform density. We refer to the ratio between the star formation rate of a spherical centrally-concentrated gas clump and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Genevieve Parmentier

Most star complexes are in fact complexes of stars, clusters and gas clouds; term "star complexes" was introduced as general one disregarding the preferential content of a complex. Generally the high rate of star formation in a complex is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. N. Efremov

In order to study the status and the possible evolution of clusters of galaxies at intermediate redshifts (z ~ 0.1 - 0.3), as well as their spatial correlation and relationship with the local environment, we built a sample of candidate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Zanichelli , M. Vigotti , R. Scaramella , G. Grueff , G. Vettolani

Galaxy clusters are one of the most powerful probes to study extensions of General Relativity and the Standard Cosmological Model. Upcoming surveys like the Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time are expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 Markus Michael Rau , Florian Kéruzoré , Nesar Ramachandra , Lindsey Bleem

In this work, we propose to use a local clustering approach based on the sparse solution technique to study the medical image, especially the lung cancer image classification task. We view images as the vertices in a weighted graph and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jackson Hamel , Ming-Jun Lai , Zhaiming Shen , Ye Tian

We identify cosmic voids from galaxy density fields under the theory of void-cluster correspondence. We extend the previous novel void-identification method developed for the matter density field to the galaxy density field for practical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Junsup Shim , Changbom Park , Juhan Kim , Sungwook E. Hong

In this paper, we consider feature screening for ultrahigh dimensional clustering analyses. Based on the observation that the marginal distribution of any given feature is a mixture of its conditional distributions in different clusters, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-05 Changhu Wang , Zihao Chen , Ruibin Xi

We describe a new open source package for calculating properties of galaxy clusters, including NFW halo profiles with and without the effects of cluster miscentering. This pure-Python package, cluster-lensing, provides well-documented and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Jes Ford , Jake VanderPlas

Clusters of galaxies can be identified from peaks in weak lensing aperture mass maps constructed from weak lensing shear catalogs. Such purely gravitational cluster selection considerably differs from traditional cluster selections based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 Masamune Oguri , Satoshi Miyazaki

We have used a star-count algorithm based the Panoramic Survey Telescope And Rapid Response System 3$\pi$ survey data aim to identify and characterize uncharted open clusters (OCs). With limiting magnitudes of about 22 mag in \gps, \rps,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-09-04 C. C. Lin , W. P. Chen

Owing to the remarkable photometric precision of space observatories like Kepler, stellar and planetary systems beyond our own are now being characterized en masse for the first time. These characterizations are pivotal for endeavors such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-03 Earl P. Bellinger , George C. Angelou , Saskia Hekker , Sarbani Basu , Warrick Ball , Elisabeth Guggenberger

The discrete distribution is often used to describe complex instances in machine learning, such as images, sequences, and documents. Traditionally, clustering of discrete distributions (D2C) has been approached using Wasserstein barycenter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Zixiao Wang , Dong Qiao , Jicong Fan

Dense star clusters are spectacular self-gravitating stellar systems in our Galaxy and across the Universe - in many respects. They populate disks and spheroids of galaxies as well as almost every galactic center. In massive elliptical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-22 Rainer Spurzem , Albrecht Kamlah

Combined observations from UV to IR wavelengths are necessary to fully account for the star-formation in galaxy clusters. Low mass (log M/Msun<10) galaxies are typically not individualy detected, particularly at higher redshifts (z~1-2)…

The ACS Survey of Globular Clusters has used HST's Wide-Field Channel to obtain uniform imaging of 65 of the nearest globular clusters to provide an extensive homogeneous dataset for a broad range of scientific investigations. The survey…

Aims: We study galaxy clustering and explore the dependence of galaxy properties on the the environment up to a redshift z~1, on the basis of a deep multi-band survey in the Chandra Deep Field South. Methods: We have developed a new method…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dario Trevese , Marco Castellano , Adriano Fontana , Emanuele Giallongo