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The joint probability distribution function (PDF) of the density within multiple concentric spherical cells is considered. It is shown how its cumulant generating function can be obtained at tree order in perturbation theory as the Legendre…

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The probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass surface density of molecular clouds provides essential information about the structure of molecular cloud gas and condensed structures out of which stars may form. In general, the PDF…

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The 1-point matter density probability distribution function (PDF) captures some of the non-Gaussian information lost in standard 2-point statistics. The matter PDF can be well predicted at mildly non-linear scales using large deviations…

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Supersonic turbulence occurs in many environments, particularly in astrophysics. In the crucial case of isothermal turbulence, the probability density function (PDF) of the logarithmic density, $s$, is well measured, but a theoretical…

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The structure of molecular clouds can be characterized with the probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass surface density. In particular, the properties of the distribution can reveal the nature of the turbulence and star…

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We develop a new computational framework to solve the partial differential equations (PDEs) governing the flow of the joint probability density functions (PDFs) in continuous-time stochastic nonlinear systems. The need for computing the…

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The acceleration parameter defined through the local volume expansion is negative for a pressureless, irrotational fluid with positive energy density. In the presence of inhomogeneities or anisotropies the volume expansion rate results from…

We present results of the investigations of the statistical properties of a joint density and velocity divergence probability distribution function (PDF) in the mildly non-linear regime. For that purpose we use both perturbation theory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Bernardeau , M. J. Chodorowski , E. L. Lokas , R. Stompor , A. Kudlicki

At any given scale, 3$\times$2-point statistics extract only three numbers from the joint distribution of the cosmic matter density and galaxy density fluctuations: their variances and their covariance. It is well known that the full shape…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Oliver Friedrich , Lina Castiblanco , Anik Halder , Cora Uhlemann

We use the Delaunay Tessellation Field Estimator (DTFE) to study the one-point density distribution functions of the Millennium (MS) and Millennium-II (MS-II) simulations. The DTFE technique is based directly on the particle positions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Biswajit Pandey , Simon D. M. White , Volker Springel , Raul Angulo

We examine local Lagrangian approximations for the gravitational evolution of the density distribution function. In these approximations, the final density at a Lagrangian point q at a time t is taken to be a function only of t and of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Zacharias A. M. Protogeros , Robert J. Scherrer

We present a general method for the reconstruction of the one-point Probability Distribution Function of the local aperture mass in weak lensing maps. Exact results, that neglect the lens-lens coupling and departure form the Born…

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We investigate the evolution of matter density perturbations within a fractional cosmological framework inspired by fractal space-time constructions in field theory, where a deformation of the integration measure induces non-locality and…

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In probability density function (PDF) methods a transport equation is solved numerically to compute the time and space dependent probability distribution of several flow variables in a turbulent flow. The joint PDF of the velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-06-04 J. Bakosi , P. Franzese , Z. Boybeyi

We discuss the generation and statistics of the density fluctuations in highly compressible polytropic turbulence, based on a simple model and one-dimensional numerical simulations. Observing that density structures tend to form in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Thierry Passot , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

(Abridged) We discuss the probability distribution function (PDF) of column density resulting from density fields with lognormal PDFs, applicable to isothermal gas (e.g., probably molecular clouds). We suggest that a ``decorrelation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Nieves Garcia

We present an analytical model for density-split correlation functions, that probe galaxy clustering in different density environments. Specifically, we focus on the cross-correlation between density-split regions and the tracer density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-23 Mathilde Pinon , Arnaud de Mattia , Étienne Burtin , Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider , Sandrine Codis , Enrique Paillas , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro

We present a simple and intuitive approximation for solving perturbation theory (PT) of small cosmic fluctuations. We consider only the spherically symmetric or monopole contribution to the PT integrals, which yields the exact result for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Fosalba , E. Gaztanaga

We present a public code to generate random fields with an arbitrary probability distribution function (PDF) and an arbitrary correlation function. The algorithm is cosmology-independent, applicable to any stationary stochastic process over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Federico Tosone , Mark C. Neyrinck , Benjamin R. Granett , Luigi Guzzo , Nicola Vittorio

We focus on the probability distribution function (pdf) $P(\Delta \gamma; \gamma)$ where $\Delta \gamma$ are the {\em measured} strain intervals between plastic events in an athermal strained amorphous solids, and $\gamma$ measures the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-20 H. G. E. Hentschel , Prabhat K. Jaiswal , Itamar Procaccia , Srikanth Sastry