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It is known that the gas has a fractal structure in a wide range of spatial scales with a fractal dimension that seems to be a constant around Df = 2.7. It is expected that stars forming from this fractal medium exhibit similar fractal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Nestor Sanchez , Emilio J. Alfaro

We study the distribution of stars, HII regions, molecular gas, and individual giant molecular clouds in M33 over a wide range of spatial scales. The clustering strength of these components is systematically estimated through the fractal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-08 Nestor Sanchez , Neyda Anez , Emilio J. Alfaro , Mary Crone Odekon

The fractal structure of star formation on large scales in disk galaxies is studied using the size distribution function of stellar aggregates in kpc-scale star fields. Achival HST images of 10 galaxies are Gaussian smoothed to define the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bruce G. Elmegreen , Debra Meloy Elmegreen

In this work we quantify the degree to which star-forming events are clumped. We apply a precise and accurate technique to calculate the correlation dimension Dc of the distribution of HII regions in a sample of disk galaxies. Our reliable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-08 Nestor Sanchez , Emilio J. Alfaro

Quantitative analysis of the structure of star clusters is crucial for understanding their formation and evolution. In this article, we explore the application of fractal dimension analysis to study the evolution of star clusters, also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-01 N. Ussipov , A. Akhmetali , M. Zaidyn , A. Akniyazova , A. Sakan , M. Kalambay , B. Shukirgaliyev

Considering the GAIA data for {$\approx 10^6$} stars around the {barycenter,} we estimate the fractal dimension for different regions in the Milky Way. Then we use those fractal dimensions to calculate the gravitational potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-04 T Canavesi

We use fractal analysis to systematically study the clustering strength of the distribution of stars, HII regions, molecular gas, and individual giant molecular clouds in M33 over a wide range of spatial scales. We find a clear transition…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-09-15 Nestor Sanchez , Neyda Anez , Emilio Alfaro , Mary Crone Odekon

We analyze the fractal dimension of open clusters using 3D spatial data from Gaia DR3 for 93 open clusters from Pang et al. (2024) and 127 open clusters from Hunt & Reffert (2024) within 500 pc. The box-counting method is adopted to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-05 Chang Qin , Xiaoying Pang , Mario Pasquato , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Antonella Vallenari

Estimates of the fractal dimension $D$ of the set of galaxies in the universe, based on ever improving data sets, tend to settle on $D\approx 2$. This result raised a raging debate due to its glaring contradiction with astrophysical models…

The interstellar medium seems to have an underlying fractal structure which can be characterized through its fractal dimension. However, interstellar clouds are observed as projected two-dimensional images, and the projection of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nestor Sanchez , Emilio J. Alfaro , Enrique Perez

In this report we present experimental results using \emph{Haussdorf-Besicovich} fractal dimension for performing morphological galaxy classification. The fractal dimension is a topological, structural and spatial property that give us…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Jorge de la Calleja , Elsa M. de la Calleja , Hugo Jair Escalante

Fractal dimensions can be used to characterize the clustering and lacunarities in density distributions. We use generalized fractal dimensions to study the neutral hydrogen distribution (HI) during the epoch of reionization. Using a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Bidisha Bandyopadhyay , T. Roy Choudhury , T. R. Seshadri

The main goal of this paper has a double purpose. On the one hand, we propose a new definition in order to compute the fractal dimension of a subset respect to any fractal structure, which completes the theory of classical box-counting…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-23 M. Fernández-Martínez , M. A Sánchez-Granero

The Interstellar Medium seems to have an underlying fractal structure, which can be characterized through its fractal dimension (Df). However, several factors may affect the determination of Df, such as distortions due to projection, low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-11 Nestor Sanchez , Emilio J. Alfaro , Enrique Perez

The geometric characteristics of dust clouds provide important information on the physical processes that structure such clouds. One of such characteristics is the $2D$ fractal dimension $D$ of a cloud projected onto the sky plane. In…

Using a sample of 133 991 galaxies distributed in the sky region $100^{\circ} <\alpha<270^{\circ}$ and $7^{\circ}<\delta<65^{\circ}$, extracted from the SDSS NASA/AMES Value Added Galaxy Catalog (AMES-VAGC), we estimate the fractal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-07 T. Canavesi , T. E. Tapia

The structure of the large scale distribution of the galaxies have been widely studied since the publication of the first catalogs. Since large redshift samples are available, their analyses seem to show fractal correlations up to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marie-Noelle Celerier , Reuben Thieberger

Evidence is presented that the galaxy distribution can be described as a fractal system in the redshift range of the FDF galaxy survey. The fractal dimension $D$ was derived using the FDF galaxy volume number densities in the spatially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-22 G. Conde-Saavedra , A. Iribarrem , Marcelo B. Ribeiro

The fractal dimension $D$ is used to map the large-scale galaxy distribution in the Universe by color types: blue, green and red. Using a $NUVrK$-complete COSMOS2020 subsample of 618,952 galaxies observed up to $z=4$, number densities were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Ana Elisa Lima , Julianne C. Soares , Ana Carolina S. Tavares , Mariana V. Taveira , Sharon Teles , Amanda R. Lopes , Marcelo B. Ribeiro

This paper provides a new model to compute the fractal dimension of a subset on a generalized-fractal space. Recall that fractal structures are a perfect place where a new definition of fractal dimension can be given, so we perform a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-23 M. A. Sánchez-Granero , Manuel Fernández-Martínez
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