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In this study, we obtain the size distribution of voids as a 3-parameter redshift independent log-normal void probability function (VPF) directly from the Cosmic Void Catalog (CVC). Although many statistical models of void distributions are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Jean-Renaud Pycke , Esra Russell

Recent work on distinct multicellular organisms has revealed a hitherto unknown type of biological noise; rather than a regular arrangement, cellular neighborhood volumes, obtained by Voronoi tessellations of the cell locations, are broadly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-12 Anand Srinivasan , Steph S. M. H. Hohn , Raymond E. Goldstein

Modern detectors of cosmic gamma-rays are a special type of imaging telescopes (air Cherenkov telescopes) supplied with cameras with a relatively large number of photomultiplier-based pixels. For example, the camera of the TAIGA-IACT…

We have developed a novel method of determining 2D radial density profiles for astronomical systems of discrete objects using Voronoi tessellations. This Voronoi-based method was tested against the standard annulus-based method on 5…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-04 Veronika Dornan , William E. Harris

Cosmic voids as typical under-density regions in the large scale Universe are known for their hyperbolic properties as an ability to deviate the photon beams. The under-density then is acting as the negative curvature in the hyperbolic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 M. Samsonyan , A. A. Kocharyan , A. Stepanian , V. G. Gurzadyan

Cosmic voids, the under-dense regions of the cosmic web, are widely used to constrain cosmology. Voids contain few, isolated galaxies, presumably expected to be less evolved and preserving memory of the pristine Universe. We use the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-12 Melanie Habouzit , Alice Pisani , Andy Goulding , Yohan Dubois , Rachel S. Somerville , Jenny E. Greene

votess is a library for computing parallel 3D Voronoi tessellations on heterogeneous platforms, from CPUs and GPUs, to future accelerator architectures. To do so, it leverages the SYCL abstraction layer to achieve portability and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Samridh Dev Singh , Chris Byrohl , Dylan Nelson

For the analysis of systems consisting of small, regular objects, the methods of mathematical morphology applied to images of these systems are well-suited. One of these methods is the use of Voronoi polygons. It was found that the Voronoi…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-05-24 M. Montserrat Alonso Ferrero

We present a cosmic void catalog using the large-scale structure galaxy catalog from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This galaxy catalog is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 12 and is the final…

A novel algorithm to detect coherent structures with sparse Lagrangian particle tracking data, using Voronoi tessellation and techniques from spectral graph theory, is tested. Neighbouring tracer particles are naturally identified through…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-29 F. A. C. Martins , D. E. Rival

In this work, we show how a genetic algorithm (GA) can be used to find step-by-step solutions to introductory physics problems. Our perspective is that the underlying task for this is one of finding a sequence of equations that will lead to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Tom Bensky , Justin Kopcinski

We present a public catalogue of voids in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 11 LOWZ and CMASS galaxy surveys. This catalogue contains information on the location, sizes, densities, shapes and bounding surfaces…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-02 Seshadri Nadathur

The Zone of Avoidance makes it difficult for astronomers to catalogue galaxies at low latitudes to our galactic plane due to high star densities and extinction. However, having a complete sky map of galaxies is important in a number of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-21 David Jones , Anja Schroeder , Geoff Nitschke

Discoveries of gaps in data have been important in astrophysics. For example, there are kinematic gaps opened by resonances in dynamical systems, or exoplanets of a certain radius that are empirically rare. A gap in a data set is a kind of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Gabriella Contardo , David W. Hogg , Jason A. S. Hunt , Joshua E. G. Peek , Yen-Chi Chen

Analyzing large datasets to select optimal features is one of the most important research areas in machine learning and data mining. This feature selection procedure involves dimensionality reduction which is crucial in enhancing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhila Yaseen Taha , Abdulhady Abas Abdullah , Tarik A. Rashid

This paper describes a new approach to the optimization of information extraction in multi-wavelength image cubes of cosmological fields. The objective is to create a framework for the automatic identification and tagging of sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Maria Jose Marquez

We analyze photometry from deep B-band images of 59 void galaxies in the Void Galaxy Survey (VGS), together with their near-infrared 3.6$\mu$m and 4.5$\mu$m Spitzer photometry. The VGS galaxies constitute a sample of void galaxies that were…

We present a new definition of cosmic void and a publicly available code with the algorithm that implements it. Underdense regions are defined as free-form objects, called popcorn voids, made from the union of spheres of maximum volume with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Dante J. Paz , Carlos M. Correa , Sebastián R. Gualpa , Andres N. Ruiz , Carlos S. Bederián , R. Dario Graña , Nelson D. Padilla

Accurate evaluation of human aesthetic preferences represents a major challenge for creative evolutionary and generative systems research. Prior work has tended to focus on feature measures of the artefact, such as symmetry, complexity and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Jon McCormack , Andy Lomas