English
Related papers

Related papers: The four cosmic tidal web elements from the $\beta…

200 papers

We use network theory to study topological features in the hierarchical clustering of dark matter halos. We use public halo catalogs from cosmological N-body simulations and construct tree graphs that connect halos within main halo systems.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Daneng Yang , Hai-Bo Yu

We investigate the evolution of cosmic web since $z=5$ in grid based cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, focusing on the mass and velocity field of both baryonic and cold dark matter. The tidal tensor of density is used as the main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-05 Weishan Zhu , Long-Long Feng

We propose a variant of residual networks (ResNets) for galaxy morphology classification. The variant, together with other popular convolutional neural networks (CNNs), are applied to a sample of 28790 galaxy images from Galaxy Zoo 2…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Jia-Ming Dai , Jizhou Tong

Throughout cosmological simulations, the properties of the matter density field in the initial conditions have a decisive impact on the features of the structures formed today. In this paper we use a random-forest classification algorithm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-20 Jazhiel Chacón , J. Alberto Vázquez , Erick Almaraz

We present a statistical study of the filamentary structures of the cosmic web in the large hydro-dynamical simulations Illustris-TNG, Illustris, and Magneticum at redshift z=0. We focus on the radial distribution of the galaxy density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa , Nabila Aghanim , Mathieu Langer , Céline Gouin , Nicola Malavasi

We introduce a new clustering algorithm, MulGuisin (MGS), that can identify distinct galaxy over-densities using topological information from the galaxy distribution. This algorithm was first introduced in an LHC experiment as a Jet Finder…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-20 Young Ju , Inkyu Park , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Sungwook E. Hong

Galaxy clusters are located at the nodes of the filamentary network known as the cosmic web. A more comprehensive understanding of galaxy clusters can be achieved by considering their environment, in particular, the filamentary structures…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Sara Santoni , Marco De Petris , Gustavo Yepes , Weiguang Cui , Daniel de Andrés , Antonio Ferragamo , Raphaël Wicker

Automating classification of galaxy components is important for understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies. Traditionally, only the larger galaxy structures such as the spiral arms, bulge, and disc are classified. Here we use…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-10 Robin J. Kwik , Jinfei Wang , Pauline Barmby , Benne W. Holwerda

Terrestrial laser scanning technology provides an efficient and accuracy solution for acquiring three-dimensional information of plants. The leaf-wood classification of plant point cloud data is a fundamental step for some forestry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Zichu Liu , Qing Zhang , Pei Wang , Yaxin Li , Jingqian Sun

One of the important unknowns of current cosmology concerns the effects of the large scale distribution of matter on the formation and evolution of dark matter haloes and galaxies. One main difficulty in answering this question lies in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones , Carlos S. Frenk , Wojcieh A. Hellwing

Mechanical exfoliation of graphene and its identification by optical inspection is one of the milestones in condensed matter physics that sparked the field of 2D materials. Finding regions of interest from the entire sample space and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-19 Woon Hyung Cho , Jiseon Shin , Young Duck Kim , George J. Jung

Understanding the structure of the matter distribution in the Universe due to the action of the gravitational instability -- the cosmic web -- is complicated by lack of direct analytic access to the nonlinear domain of structure formation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sergei Shandarin , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann

Clusters, filaments, sheets and voids are the building blocks of the cosmic web. In this study, we present and compare two distinct algorithms for finding cosmic filaments and sheets, a task which is far less well established than the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Andreas Faltenbacher , Volker Springel , Weipeng Lin , Huiyuan Wang

We present a convolutional neural network to classify distinct cosmological scenarios based on the statistically similar weak-lensing maps they generate. Modified gravity (MG) models that include massive neutrinos can mimic the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Austin Peel , Florian Lalande , Jean-Luc Starck , Valeria Pettorino , Julian Merten , Carlo Giocoli , Massimo Meneghetti , Marco Baldi

We revise and extend the stochastic approach to cumulative weak lensing (hereafter the sGL method) first introduced in Ref. [1]. Here we include a realistic halo mass function and density profiles to model the distribution of mass between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-19 Kimmo Kainulainen , Valerio Marra

Ridges in galaxy density fields measured by photometric surveys are 2D projections of filaments in the cosmic web, and so should lens light from background galaxies. We report on a detection of this effect in Dark Energy Survey Year 3 data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Mehraveh Nikjoo , Joe Zuntz , Ben Moews

In this paper, a deep convolutional neural network architecture for galaxies classification is presented. The galaxy can be classified based on its features into main three categories Elliptical, Spiral, and Irregular. The proposed deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Nour Eldeen M. Khalifa , Mohamed Hamed N. Taha , Aboul Ella Hassanien , I. M. Selim

Weak gravitational lensing has become a powerful probe of large-scale structure and cosmological parameters. Precision weak lensing measurements require an understanding of the intrinsic alignment of galaxy ellipticities, which can in turn…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Jonathan Blazek , Matthew McQuinn , Uros Seljak

We introduce a spectral hierarchy of cosmic-web classifications obtained by applying simple scale-weighting kernels to the density field before performing a standard eigenvalue-based web classification. This unifies and extends several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Francesco Sinigaglia

In hierarchical models of galaxy formation, stellar tidal streams are expected around most, if not all, galaxies. Although these features may provide useful diagnostics of the $\Lambda$CDM model, their observational properties remain poorly…