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Cosmic voids, vast underdensities in the large-scale structure, offer unique sensitivity to cosmological parameters. However, traditional 3D galaxy-based void finding is limited by many factors, including uncertainties in the galaxy-halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 C. T. Davies , M. Klein , A. Fumagalli , J. J. Mohr

We study the formation and evolution of filamentary configurations of dark matter haloes in voids. Our investigation uses the high-resolution LambdaCDM simulation CosmoGrid to look for void systems resembling the VGS_31 elongated system of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-22 Steven Rieder , Rien van de Weygaert , Marius Cautun , Burcu Beygu , Simon Portegies Zwart

We develop a method for analyzing spatial and spatiotemporal anomalies in geospatial data using topological data analysis (TDA). To do this, we use persistent homology (PH), which allows one to algorithmically detect geometric voids in a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-01 Abigail Hickok , Deanna Needell , Mason A. Porter

The large-scale structure of the universe is comprised of virialized blob-like clusters, linear filaments, sheet-like walls and huge near empty three-dimensional voids. Characterizing the large scale universe is essential to our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Nithin Shivshankar , Pratyush Pranav , Vijay Natarajan , Rien van de Weygaert , E G Patrick Bos , Steven Rieder

We identify voids as maximal non-overlapping spheres within the haloes of the Uchuu simulation and three smaller halo simulation boxes with smaller volume and different $\sigma_{8}$ values, and galaxies with redshift in the range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Elena Fernández-García , Juan E. Betancort-Rijo , Francisco Prada , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Anatoly Klypin

The predictions of mean-field electrodynamics can now be probed using direct numerical simulations of random flows and magnetic fields. When modelling astrophysical MHD, it is important to verify that such simulations are in agreement with…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-09-12 Irina Makarenko , Paul Bushby , Andrew Fletcher , Robin Henderson , Nikolay Makarenko , Anvar Shukurov

Persistent homology (PH) studies the topology of data across multiple scales by building nested collections of topological spaces called filtrations, computing homology and returning an algebraic object that can be vizualised as a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-14 David Beers , Heather A Harrington , Jacob Leygonie , Uzu Lim , Louis Theran

Features such as photon rings, jets, or hot. spots can leave particular topological signatures in a black hole image. As such, topological data analysis can be used to characterize images resulting from high resolution observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-11 Pierre Christian , Chi-kwan Chan , Anthony Hsu , Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis , Iniyan Natarajan

Voids have emerged as a novel probe of cosmology and large-scale structure. These regions of extreme underdensity are sensitive to physics beyond the standard model of cosmology, and can potentially be used as a testing ground to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-23 Drew Jamieson , Marilena Loverde

Context. Cosmic voids are vast underdense regions in the cosmic web that encode crucial information about structure formation, the composition of the Universe, and its expansion history. Due to their lower density, these regions are less…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 M. D. Lepinzan , C. T. Davies , T. Castro , N. Schuster , J. Mohr , P. Monaco

We construct a catalogue for filaments using a novel approach called SCMS (subspace constrained mean shift; Ozertem & Erdogmus 2011; Chen et al. 2015). SCMS is a gradient-based method that detects filaments through density ridges (smooth…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Yen-Chi Chen , Shirley Ho , Jon Brinkmann , Peter E. Freeman , Christopher R. Genovese , Donald P. Schneider , Larry Wasserman

We present a new method for the statistical process control of lattice structures using tools from Topological Data Analysis. Motivated by applications in additive manufacturing, such as aerospace components and biomedical implants, where…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-15 Yulin An , Xueqi Zhao , Enrique del Castillo

Real data is often given as a point cloud, i.e. a finite set of points with pairwise distances between them. An important problem is to detect the topological shape of data --- for example, to approximate a point cloud by a low-dimensional…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Sara Kalisnik Verovsek , Vitaliy Kurlin , Davorin Lesnik

Continuous wavelet analysis is gaining popularity in science and engineering for its ability to analyze data across spatial and scale domains simultaneously. In this study, we introduce a wavelet-based method to identify halos and assess…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 Minxing Li , Yun Wang , Ping He

Cosmic void has been proven to be an effective cosmological probe of the large-scale structure (LSS). However, since voids are usually identified in spectroscopic galaxy surveys, they are generally limited to low number density and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Yingxiao Song , Yan Gong , Qi Xiong , Kwan Chuen Chan , Xuelei Chen , Qi Guo , Yun Liu , Wenxiang Pei

Persistent homology is a natural tool for probing the topological characteristics of weighted graphs, essentially focusing on their $0$-dimensional homology. While this area has been substantially studied, we present a new approach to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Omer Bobrowski , Primoz Skraba

We study evolution of voids in cosmological simulations using a new method for tracing voids over cosmic time. The method is based on tracking watershed basins (contiguous regions around density minima) of well developed voids at low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Radosław Wojtak , Devon Powell , Tom Abel

We develop a method to identify cosmic voids from the matter density field by adopting a physically-motivated concept that voids are the counterpart of massive clusters. To prove the concept we use a pair of $\Lambda$CDM simulations, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-16 Junsup Shim , Changbom Park , Juhan Kim , Ho Seong Hwang

Using a set of $\Lambda$CDM simulations of cosmic structure formation, we study the evolving connectivity and changing topological structure of the cosmic web using state-of-the-art tools of multiscale topological data analysis (TDA). We…