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In this paper, we propose a machine vision algorithm for automatically detecting defects in patterned textures with the help of gradient space and its energy. Experiments on real fabric images with defects show that the proposed method can…

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In order to retrieve cosmological parameters from photometric surveys, we need to estimate the distribution of the photometric redshift in the sky with excellent accuracy. We use and apply three different machine learning methods to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Elcio Abdalla , Filipe B. Abdalla , Alessandro Marins , Amilcar Queiroz , Rafael M. Ribeiro , Alex S. C. Souza

The network of filaments with embedded clusters surrounding voids seen in maps derived from redshift surveys and reproduced in simulations has been referred to as the cosmic web. A complementary description is provided by considering the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Daniel Pomarede , Yehuda Hoffman , Helene M Courtois , R. Brent Tully

Eigenmode analysis is one of the most promising methods of analyzing large data sets in ongoing and near-future galaxy surveys. In such analyses, a fast evaluation of the correlation matrix in arbitrary cosmological models is crucial. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takahiko Matsubara , Alexander S. Szalay , Adrian C. Pope

This work uses hierarchical logistic Gaussian processes to infer true redshift distributions of samples of galaxies, through their cross-correlations with spatially overlapping spectroscopic samples. We demonstrate that this method can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-30 Markus Michael Rau , Simon Wilson , Rachel Mandelbaum

We investigate the distribution of missing baryons in the cosmic filaments by stacking $\sim 30,700$ filaments across the northern and southern SDSS sky regions using Planck Compton-$y$ and CMB lensing maps. Filaments are identified using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Jianzhuo Li , Yi Zheng , Weishan Zhu

The cross-correlation of cosmic voids with the lensing convergence ($\kappa$) map of the CMB fluctuations offers a powerful tool to refine our understanding of the dark sector in the consensus cosmological model. Our principal aim is to…

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We investigated the widths and profiles of cosmic filaments using the IllustrisTNG simulations. Filaments were identified with DisPerSE, using galaxy samples in simulations as input. Since the width of an individual filament can vary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 Qi-Rui Yang , Weishan Zhu , GuangYao Yu , Jian-Feng Mo , Yi Zheng , Long-Long Feng

We present the first statistical observational study detecting filaments in the immediate surroundings of galaxies, i.e. the local web of galaxies. Simulations predict that cold gas, the fuel for star formation, is channeled through…

We discuss a method to build up and study a sample of distant galaxies, with 2<z<5, using the gravitational amplification effect in cluster-lenses for which the mass distribution is well known. The candidates are selected close to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Pello , J. P. Kneib , G. Bruzual , J. M. Miralles

With the availability of thousands of type Ia supernovae in the near future the magnitude scatter induced by lensing will become a major issue as it affects parameter estimation. Current N-body simulations are too time consuming to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-10 Valerio Marra , Miguel Quartin , Luca Amendola

Numerous methods for finding clusters at moderate to high redshifts have been proposed in recent years, at wavelengths ranging from radio to X-rays. In this paper we describe a new method for detecting clusters in two-band optical/near-IR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael D. Gladders , H. K. C. Yee

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging observational method to study the large-scale structure of the Universe and its evolution. LIM does not resolve individual sources but probes the fluctuations of integrated line emissions. A…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Kana Moriwaki , Nina Filippova , Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida

We provide a method for estimating the projected density distribution $\bar{n}_2w_p(r_p)$ of photometric objects around spectroscopic objects in a redshift survey. This quantity describes the distribution of Photometric sources with certain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-27 Kun Xu , Yun Zheng , Yipeng Jing

We investigate how well the redshift distributions of galaxies sorted into photometric redshift bins can be determined from the galaxy angular two-point correlation functions. We find that the uncertainty in the reconstructed redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Schneider , L. Knox , H. Zhan , A. Connolly

A reliable extraction of filament data from microscopic images is of high interest in the analysis of acto-myosin structures as early morphological markers in mechanically guided differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Benjamin Eltzner , Carina Wollnik , Carsten Gottschlich , Stephan Huckemann , Florian Rehfeldt

Images of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field are analyzed to obtain a catalog of galaxies for which the angular sizes, surface brightness, photometric redshifts, and absolute magnitudes are found. The catalog contains a total of about 4000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Nikita V. Nabokov , Yuriy V. Baryshev

The number density of galaxy clusters across mass and redshift has been established as a powerful cosmological probe. Cosmological analyses with galaxy clusters traditionally employ scaling relations. However, many challenges arise from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 M. Kosiba , N. Cerardi , M. Pierre , F. Lanusse , C. Garrel , N. Werner , M. Shalak

Studying the structures (halos and galaxies) within the cosmic environments (void, sheet, filament, and node) where they reside is an ongoing attempt in cosmological studies. The link between the properties of structures and the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Mohadese Khoshtinat , Hossein Hatamnia , Shant Baghram