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We present and discuss a method to identify substructures in combined angular-redshift samples of galaxies within Clusters. The method relies on the use of Discrete Wavelet Transform (hereafter DWT) and has already been applied to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Pagliaro , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , U. Becciani , M. Gambera

Graph mining analyzes real-world graphs to find core substructures (connected subgraphs) in applications modeled as graphs. Substructure discovery is a process that involves identifying meaningful patterns, structures, or components within…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Arshdeep Singh , Abhishek Santra , Sharma Chakravarthy

We present a new algorithm for identifying dark matter halos, substructure, and tidal features. The approach is based on adaptive hierarchical refinement of friends-of-friends groups in six phase-space dimensions and one time dimension,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-15 Peter S. Behroozi , Risa H. Wechsler , Hao-Yi Wu

We use large cosmological N-body simulations to study the subhalo population in galaxy group sized halos. In particular, we look for fossil group candidates with typical masses ~10-25% of Virgo cluster but with an order of magnitude less…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. D'Onghia , A. V. Maccio' , G. Lake , J. Stadel , B. Moore

We describe a new method (\textsc{CompaSO}) for identifying groups of particles in cosmological $N$-body simulations. \textsc{CompaSO} builds upon existing spherical overdensity (SO) algorithms by taking into consideration the tidal radius…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Daniel Eisenstein , Sownak Bose , Lehman H. Garrison , Nina Maksimova

Cosmological N-body simulations are among the primary tools for studying structure formation in the Universe. Analyses of these simulations critically depend on accurately identifying and tracking dark matter subhalos over time. In recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Demao Kong , Hai-Bo Yu , Ethan O. Nadler , Philip Mansfield , Andrew Benson

The analysis of cosmological galaxy surveys requires realistic simulations for their interpretation. Forward modelling is a powerful method to simulate galaxy clustering without the need for an underlying complex model. This approach…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-07 Pascale Berner , Alexandre Refregier , Raphael Sgier , Tomasz Kacprzak , Luca Tortorelli , Pierluigi Monaco

Context. New-generation cosmological simulations are providing huge amounts of data, whose analysis becomes itself a cutting-edge computational problem. In particular, the identification of gravitationally bound structures, known as halo…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 David Vallés-Pérez , Susana Planelles , Vicent Quilis

Modern studies of galaxy formation rely heavily on numerical simulations, which in turn require tools to identify and track self-bound structures in stars and dark matter. In this paper, we present Bloodhound, a new halo tracking algorithm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-01 Hyunsu Kong , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , James S. Bullock

This is the first of a series of three Papers devoted to the study of halo substructure in hierarchical cosmologies by means of the CUSP formalism. In the present Paper we derive the properties of subhaloes and diffuse dark matter (dDM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 Eduard Salvador-Solé , Alberto Manrique , Ignacio Botella

Computer simulations are invaluable tools for scientific discovery. However, accurate simulations are often slow to execute, which limits their applicability to extensive parameter exploration, large-scale data analysis, and uncertainty…

Due to poor observational constraints on the low-mass end of the subhalo mass function, the detection of dark matter (DM) subhalos on sub-galactic scales would provide valuable information about the nature of DM. Stellar wakes, induced by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-22 Sven Põder , Joosep Pata , María Benito , Isaac Alonso Asensio , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

Hydrodynamical simulations are the most accurate way to model structure formation in the universe, but they often involve a large number of astrophysical parameters modeling subgrid physics, in addition to cosmological parameters. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Benjamin Horowitz , Zarija Lukic

We present a new algorithm for identifying superbubbles in HI column density maps of both observed and simulated galaxies that has only a single adjustable parameter. The algorithm includes an automated galaxy-background separation step to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-19 Brock Wallin , Benjamin D. Wibking , G. Mark Voit

We present a novel method to differentiate stream-like and shell-like tidal remnants of stellar systems in galactic halos using the density-based approach of the clustering algorithm AstroLink. While previous studies lean on observation,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-17 Viraj Ekanayaka , Smrithi Gireesh Babu , William H. Oliver , Geraint F. Lewis

We investigate the efficacy of using the cosmic web nodes identified by the DisPerSE topological filament finder to systematically identify galaxy groups in the infall regions around massive clusters. The large random motions and infall…

A fundamental prediction of the cold dark matter cosmology is the existence of a large number of dark subhalos around galaxies, most of which should be entirely devoid of stars. Confirming the existence of dark substructures stands among…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-01 Andrew S. Graus , James S. Bullock , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Anna M. Nierenberg

Hydrodynamical simulations play a fundamental role in modern cosmological research, serving as a crucial bridge between theoretical predictions and observational data. However, due to their computational intensity, these simulations are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Andrés Caro , Daniel de Andres , Weiguang Cui , Gustavo Yepes , Marco De Petris , Antonio Ferragamo , Félicien Schiltz , Amélie Nef

With the ever increasing resolution of N-body simulations, accurate subhalo detection is becoming essential in the study of the formation of structure, the production of merger trees and the seeding of semi-analytic models. To investigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Stuart I. Muldrew , Frazer R. Pearce , Chris Power

[abridged] We present a detailed comparison of fundamental dark matter halo properties retrieved by a substantial number of different halo finders. These codes span a wide range of techniques including friends-of-friends (FOF),…