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Gravitational clustering broadens the count-in-cells distribution of galaxies for surveys along uncorrelated (well-separated) lines of sight beyond Poisson noise. A number of methods have proposed to measure this excess "cosmic" variance to…

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Measuring and calibrating relations between cluster observables is critical for resource-limited studies. The mass-richness relation of clusters offers an observationally inexpensive way of estimating masses. Its calibration is essential…

Percolation analysis has long been used to quantify the connectivity of the cosmic web. Most of the previous work is based on density fields on grids. By smoothing into fields, we lose information about galaxy properties like shape or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Jiajun Zhang , Dalong Cheng , Ming-Chung Chu

We present a brief review of the history of optical searches of galaxy clusters, starting from that of Abell. The traditional application of this survey method suffers from contamination due to projection of galaxies along the line of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 H. K. C. Yee , M. D. Gladders

Differences in clustering properties between galaxy subpopulations complicate the cosmological interpretation of the galaxy power spectrum, but can also provide insights about the physics underlying galaxy formation. To study the nature of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Molly E. C. Swanson , Max Tegmark , Michael Blanton , Idit Zehavi

In this paper we present a novel method to identify and characterize stellar clusters deeply embedded in a dark molecular cloud. The method is based on measuring stellar surface density in wide-field infrared images using star counting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Marco Lombardi , Charles J. Lada , Joao Alves

We present an innovative and widely applicable approach for the detection and classification of stellar clusters, developed for the PHANGS-HST Treasury Program, an $NUV$-to-$I$ band imaging campaign of 38 spiral galaxies. Our pipeline first…

We present a deep-learning-based approach for identifying dark matter haloes in cosmological N-body simulations. Our framework consists of a volumetric Convolutional Neural Network to classify individual simulation particles as either halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Soumadeep Maiti , Carlos M. Correa , Andrea Fiorilli , Andrés N. Ruiz , Dante J. Paz , Alejandro Pérez Fernández , Ariel G. Sánchez

We discuss an algorithm whereby the massive galaxy clusters detected in the SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey are identified and their photometric redshifts are estimated. For this purpose, we use photometric redshift estimates for galaxies and…

In order to study the galaxy population of galaxy clusters with photometric data one must be able to accurately discriminate between cluster members and non-members. The redMaPPer cluster finding algorithm treats this problem…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Eduardo Rozo , Eli S. Rykoff , Matthew Becker , Rachel M. Reddick , Risa H. Wechsler

This article is the second in a series in which we perform an extensive comparison of various galaxy-based cluster mass estimation techniques that utilise the positions, velocities and colours of galaxies. Our aim is to quantify the…

Clustering of high-dimensional data sets is a growing need in artificial intelligence, machine learning and pattern recognition. In this paper, we propose a new clustering method based on a combinatorial-topological approach applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Mauricio Toledo-Acosta , Luis Ángel Ramos-García , Jorge Hermosillo-Valadez

This chapter provides an overview of past and present techniques for optical detection of galaxy clusters. It follows the progression of cluster detection techniques through time, allowing readers to understand the development of the field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roy R. Gal

Selecting an appropriate clustering method as well as an optimal number of clusters in road accident data is at times confusing and difficult. This paper analyzes shortcomings of different existing techniques applied to cluster…

In the theoretical framework of hierarchical structure formation, galaxy clusters evolve through continuous accretion and mergers of substructures. Cosmological simulations have revealed the best picture of the Universe as a 3-D filamentary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-18 Tejas Oak , Surajit Paul

We use the two-point correlation function in redshift space, $\xi(s)$, to study the clustering of the galaxies and groups of the Nearby Optical Galaxy (NOG) Sample, which is a nearly all-sky, complete, magnitude-limited sample of \~7000…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Giuricin , S. Samurovic , M. Girardi , M. Mezzetti , C. Marinoni

We present cosmology results obtained from a blind joint analysis of the abundance, projected clustering, and weak lensing of galaxy clusters measured from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) redMaPPer cluster catalog and the Hyper-Suprime…

Galaxy clusters are powerful probes of the growth of cosmic structure through measurements of their abundance as a function of mass and redshift. Extracting precise cosmological constraints from cluster surveys is challenging, as we must…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 Constantin Payerne , Calum Murray , Hugo Simon

Visual feature clustering is one of the cost-effective approaches to segment objects in videos. However, the assumptions made for developing the existing algorithms prevent them from being used in situations like segmenting an unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 A. M. R. R. Bandara , L. Ranathunga , N. A. Abdullah