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Our goal is to see how density waves of different scale combine to form voids between galaxy systems of various scale. We perform numerical simulations of structure formation in cubes of size 100 and 256 Mpc/h, with resolutions 256^3 and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-13 J. Einasto , I. Suhhonenko , G. Hütsi , E. Saar , M. Einasto , L. J. Liivamägi , V. Müller , A. A. Starobinsky , E. Tago , E. Tempel

Cosmological simulations are the key tool for investigating the different processes involved in the formation of the universe from small initial density perturbations to galaxies and clusters of galaxies observed today. The identification…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Steffen R. Knollmann , Alexander Knebe

The major uncertainties in studies of the multi-scale structure of the Universe arise not from observational errors but from the variety of legitimate definitions and detection methods for individual structures. To facilitate the study of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. J. Way , P. R. Gazis , Jeffrey D. Scargle

We apply discrete Morse theory, global topology, and persistent homology to characterize the impact of massive neutrinos on the multiscale cosmic web, focusing on filaments. The topology of the cosmic web is sensitive to neutrino imprints,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Graziano Rossi , Hogyun Yu , Michaël Michaux

This paper introduces ASTRA (Algorithm for Stochastic Topological RAnking), a new method for classifying galaxies into cosmic web structures -- voids, sheets, filaments, and knots -- specifically designed for large spectroscopic surveys.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Alejandro Palomino , Felipe Leonardo Gómez-Cortés , Xiao-Dong Li

We introduce a linear dimensionality reduction technique preserving topological features via persistent homology. The method is designed to find linear projection $L$ which preserves the persistent diagram of a point cloud $\mathbb{X}$ via…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-15 Byeongsu Yu , Kisung You

This work is related to different questions within cosmology. The principal idea herein is to develop cosmological knowledge making use of the analyses of observational data in order to find the values of the matter density Omega_m and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Harun-or-Rashid

We present the second paper in our program characterizing the impact of massive neutrinos on the multiscale cosmic web using global topology and persistent homology. Building on the methodology established in Paper I, based on discrete…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Hogyun Yu , Michaël Michaux , Donghyun Kim , Changhee Song , Ingyu Yun , Donghyeon Lee , Yoonyoung Lee , Graziano Rossi

We study large-scale structures from numerical simulations, paying particular attention to supercluster-like structures. A grid-density-contour based algorithm is adopted to locate connected groups. With the increase of the linking density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Heling Yan , Zuhui Fan

Cosmic voids are effective cosmological probes to discriminate among competing world models. Their identification is generally based on density or geometry criteria that, because of their very nature, are prone to shot noise. We propose two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Andrii Elyiv , Federico Marulli , Giorgia Pollina , Marco Baldi , Enzo Branchini , Andrea Cimatti , Lauro Moscardini

Cosmic voids provide a powerful probe of the origin and evolution of structures in the Universe because their dynamics can remain near-linear to the present day. As a result they have the potential to connect large scale structure at late…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-26 Stephen Stopyra , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen

Persistent Homology (PH) offers stable, multi-scale descriptors of intrinsic shape structure by capturing connected components, loops, and voids that persist across scales, providing invariants that complement purely geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Prachi Kudeshia , Jiju Poovvancheri , Amr Ghoneim , Dong Chen

We demonstrate how to use persistent homology for cosmological parameter inference in a tomographic cosmic shear survey. We obtain the first cosmological parameter constraints from persistent homology by applying our method to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Sven Heydenreich , Benjamin Brück , Pierre Burger , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Sandra Unruh , Tiago Castro , Klaus Dolag , Nicolas Martinet

A topological shape analysis is proposed and utilized to learn concepts that reflect shape commonalities. Our approach is two-fold: i) a spatial topology analysis of point cloud segment constellations within objects. Therein constellations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Christian A. Mueller , Andreas Birk

Halo is one of the most important basic elements in cosmology simulation, which merges from small clumps to ever larger objects. The processes of the birth and merging of the halos play a fundamental role in studying the evolution of large…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Guihua Shan , Maojin Xie , FengAn Li , Yang Gao , Xuebin Chi

We present a novel method for analyzing geospatial trajectory data using topological data analysis (TDA) to identify a specific class of anomalies, commonly referred to as crop circles, in AIS data. This approach is the first of its kind to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Kyle Evans-Lee , Kevin Lamb

Preprocessing a 2D image often produces a noisy cloud of interest points. We study the problem of counting holes in unorganized clouds in the plane. The holes in a given cloud are quantified by the topological persistence of their boundary…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Vitaliy Kurlin

Persistent homology (PH) is a popular tool for topological data analysis that has found applications across diverse areas of research. It provides a rigorous method to compute robust topological features in discrete experimental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Manu Aggarwal , Vipul Periwal

We explore the capability of deep learning to classify cosmic structures. In cosmological simulations, cosmic volumes are segmented into voids, sheets, filaments and knots, according to the distribution and kinematics of dark matter (DM),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Shigeki Inoue , Xiaotian Si , Takashi Okamoto , Moka Nishigaki

Cosmic voids are key elements in our understanding of the large-scale structure of the Universe. They are crucial to constrain cosmological parameters, understand the structure formation and evolution of our Universe, and they could also be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Óscar Monllor-Berbegal , David Vallés-Pérez , Susana Planelles , Vicent Quilis