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It is known that the large-scale structure (LSS) mapped by a galaxy redshift survey is subject to distortions by galaxies' peculiar velocities. Besides the signatures generated in common N-point statistics, such as the anisotropy in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Aoxiang Jiang , Wei Liu , Wenjuan Fang , Wen Zhao

The Minkowski functionals are useful statistics to quantify the morphology of various random fields. They have been applied to numerous analyses of geometrical patterns, including various types of cosmic fields, morphological image…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Takahiko Matsubara , Satoshi Kuriki

The second-order formula of Minkowski functionals in weakly non-Gaussian fields is compared with the numerical $N$-body simulations. Recently, weakly non-Gaussian formula of Minkowski functionals is extended to include the second-order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-03 Takahiko Matsubara , Chiaki Hikage , Satoshi Kuriki

Here we introduce the Delaunay Density Estimator Method. Its purpose is rendering a fully volume-covering reconstruction of a density field from a set of discrete data points sampling this field. Reconstructing density or intensity fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. E. Schaap , R. van de Weygaert

Minkowski functionals quantify the morphology of smooth random fields. They are widely used to probe statistical properties of cosmological fields. Analytic formulae for ensemble expectations of Minkowski functionals are well known for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Pravabati Chingangbam , Fazlu Rahman

We use Minkowski functionals to analyse weak lensing convergence maps from the first-year data release of the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC-Y1) survey. Minkowski functionals provide a description of the morphological properties of a field,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-13 Joaquin Armijo , Gabriela A. Marques , Camila P. Novaes , Leander Thiele , Jessica A. Cowell , Daniela Grandón , Masato Shirasaki , Jia Liu

Minkowski functionals provide a novel tool to characterize the large-scale galaxy distribution in the Universe. Here we give a brief tutorial on the basic features of these morphological measures and indicate their practical application for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 J. Schmalzing , M. Kerscher , T. Buchert

This paper focuses on extending the use of Minkowski Tensors to analyze anisotropic signals in cosmological data, focusing on those introduced by redshift space distortion. We derive the ensemble average of the two translation-invariant,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Stephen Appleby , Christophe Pichon , Pravabati Chingangbam , Dmitri Pogosyan , Changbom Park

In this work, we propose a powerful probe of neutrino effects on the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe, i.e., Minkowski functionals (MFs). The morphology of LSS can be fully described by four MFs. This tool, with strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-23 Yu Liu , Yu Yu , Hao-Ran Yu , Pengjie Zhang

In the conference presentation we have reviewed the theory of non-Gaussian geometrical measures for the 3D Cosmic Web of the matter distribution in the Universe and 2D sky data, such as Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps that was…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Dmitri Pogosyan , Sandrine Codis , Christophe Pichon

We present a first morphometric investigation of a preliminary sample from the SDSS of 154287 galaxies with apparent magnitude 14.5<m_r<17.5 and redshift 0.001<z<0.4. We measure the Minkowski Functionals, which are a complete set of…

Minkowski functionals are summary statistics that capture the geometric and morphological properties of fields. They are sensitive to all higher order correlations of the fields and can be used to complement more conventional statistics,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Jan Hamann , Yuqi Kang

We apply the morphological descriptions of two-dimensional contour map, the so-called Minkowski functionals (the area fraction, circumference, and Euler characteristics), to the convergence field $\kappa(\bm{\theta})$ of the large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Jun'ichi Sato , Masahiro Takada , Y. P. Jing , Toshifumi Futamase

In the context of upcoming large-scale structure surveys such as Euclid, it is of prime importance to quantify the effect of peculiar velocities on geometric probes. Hence the formalism to compute in redshift space the geometrical and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-13 Sandrine Codis , Christophe Pichon , Dmitry Pogosyan , Francis Bernardeau , Takahiko Matsubara

Analytic formulas of Minkowski functionals in two-dimensional random fields are derived, including effects of second-order non-Gaussianity in the presence of both the bispectrum and trispectrum. The set of formulas provides a promising…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-14 Takahiko Matsubara

The characteristic signatures of massive neutrinos on large-scale structure (LSS), if fully captured, can be used to put a stringent constraint on their mass sum, $M_{\nu}$. Previous work utilizing N-body simulations has shown the Minkowski…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Wei Liu , Aoxiang Jiang , Wenjuan Fang

We apply the Minkowski tensor statistics to three dimensional Gaussian random fields. Minkowski tensors contain information regarding the orientation and shape of excursion sets, that is not present in the scalar Minkowski functionals. They…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Stephen Appleby , Pravabati Chingangbam , Changbom Park , K. P. Yogendran , P. K. Joby

We propose a novel method for the description of spatial patterns formed by a coverage of point sets representing galaxy samples. This method is based on a complete family of morphological measures known as Minkowski functionals, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. R. Mecke , T. Buchert , H. Wagner

The Minkowski functionals are a mathematical tool to quantify morphological features of patterns. Some applications to the matter distribution in galaxy catalogues and N-body simulations are reviewed, with an emphasis on the effects of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alvaro Dominguez

We present new and accurate measurements of the cosmic distance-redshift relation, spanning 0.2 < z < 1, using the topology of large-scale structure as a cosmological standard ruler. Our results derive from an analysis of the Minkowski…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Chris Blake , J. Berian James , Gregory B. Poole