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Both observational and theoretical research over the past decade has demonstrated that the probability distribution function (PDF) of the gas density in turbulent molecular clouds is a key ingredient for understanding star formation. It has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 Bastian Körtgen , Christoph Federrath , Robi Banerjee

We study how primordial non-Gaussianity affects the pairwise velocity probability density function (PDF) using an analytical model and cosmological N-body simulations. We adopt the local type non-Gaussian models characterized by f_{nl}, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Tsz Yan Lam , Takahiro Nishimichi , Naoki Yoshida

The probability density function (PDF) plays a central role in statistical and machine learning modeling. Real-world data often deviates from Gaussian assumptions, exhibiting skewness and exponential decay. To evaluate how well different…

Computation · Statistics 2025-12-05 Shantanu Sarkar , Mousumi Sinha , Dexter Cahoy

We derive the sampling probability density function (pdf) of an ideal localized random electromagnetic field, its amplitude and intensity in an electromagnetic environment that is quasi-statically time-varying statistically homogeneous or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. R. Arnaut

We study roughness probability distribution functions (PDFs) of the time signal for a critical interface model, which is known to provide a good description of Barkhausen noise in soft ferromagnets. Starting with time ``windows'' of data…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. L. A. de Queiroz

We study the effect on the parton distribution functions (PDFs) from the inclusion of projected measurements in the Drell-Yan (DY) di-lepton production neutral channel of the angular coefficient associated to the $Z$-boson longitudinal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-06 Juri Fiaschi

While second and higher order correlations of the light distribution have received extensive study, the lowest order probability distribution function (PDF) -- the probability that a unit volume of space will emit a given amount of light --…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Kentaro Nagamine , Renyue Cen , Masataka Fukugita

We present the first prediction of the probability distribution function (PDF) for self-organization of shear flows modeled by a nonlinear diffusion equation with a stochastic forcing. A novel non-perturbative method based on a coherent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-04-26 Eun-jin Kim , Han-Li Liu , Johan Anderson

We consider the distributed detection problem of a temporally correlated random radio source signal using a wireless sensor network capable of measuring the energy of the received signals. It is well-known that optimal tests in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Juan Augusto Maya , Leonardo Rey Vega , Andrea M. Tonello

We conduct numerical experiments to determine the density probability distribution function (PDF) produced in supersonic, isothermal, self-gravitating turbulence of the sort that is ubiquitous in star-forming molecular clouds. Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-10 Shivan Khullar , Christoph Federrath , Mark R. Krumholz , Christopher D. Matzner

The probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass surface density is an essential characteristic of the structure of molecular clouds or the interstellar medium in general. Observations of the PDF of molecular clouds indicate a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Joerg Fischera

In this paper, we study the statistical evolution of the large-scale structure (LSS), focusing on the joint probability distribution function (PDF) of the coarse-grained cosmic field and its role in constructing effective dynamics. As the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Xin Wang

In this paper, we present an analytical approach in obtaining the probability density function (pdf) of the random decision variable Y, formed at the output of power-cubic all-optical nonlinear preprocessor followed by the photodetector.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Mahdi Ranjbar Zefreh , Jawad A. Salehi

Supersonic turbulence occurs in many environments, particularly in astrophysics. In the crucial case of isothermal turbulence, the probability density function (PDF) of the logarithmic density, $s$, is well measured, but a theoretical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-31 Evan Scannapieco , Liubin Pan , Edward Buie , Marcus Brüggen

The non-Gaussian normal diffusion, i.e., the probability distribution function (PDF) is non-Gaussian but the mean squared displacement (MSD) depends on time linearly, has been observed in particle motions. Here we show by numerical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-04-06 Jianjin Wang , Yong Zhang , Hong Zhao

Time series of observables measured from complex systems do often exhibit non-normal statistics, their statistical distributions (PDF's) are not gaussian and often skewed, with roughly exponential tails. Departure from gaussianity is…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-06-29 F. Sattin

One-point probability distribution functions (PDFs) of the cosmic matter density are powerful cosmological probes that extract non-Gaussian properties of the matter distribution and complement two-point statistics. Computing the covariance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-09 Cora Uhlemann , Oliver Friedrich , Aoife Boyle , Alex Gough , Alexandre Barthelemy , Francis Bernardeau , Sandrine Codis

Many astrophysical analyses depend on estimates of redshifts (a proxy for distance) determined from photometric (i.e., imaging) data alone. Inaccurate estimates of photometric redshift uncertainties can result in large systematic errors.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 Biprateep Dey , Jeffrey A. Newman , Brett H. Andrews , Rafael Izbicki , Ann B. Lee , David Zhao , Markus Michael Rau , Alex I. Malz

The extraction of parton distribution functions (PDFs) from experimental or lattice QCD data is an ill-posed inverse problem, where regularization strongly impacts both systematic uncertainties and the reliability of the results. We study a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-02-11 Yamil Cahuana Medrano , Hervé Dutrieux , Joseph Karpie , Kostas Orginos , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

Perturbation Theory (PT) applied to a cosmological density field with Gaussian initial fluctuations suggests a specific hierarchy for the correlation functions when the variance is small. In particular quantitative predictions have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Munshi , F. Bernardeau , A. L. Melott , R. Schaeffer