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The emergence of cosmic structure is commonly considered one of the most complex phenomena in Nature. However, this complexity has never been defined nor measured in a quantitative and objective way. In this work we propose a method to…

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The angular correlation is a method for measuring the distribution of structure in the Universe, through the statistical properties of the angular distribution of galaxies on the sky. We measure the angular correlation of galaxies from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Brandon Venville , David Parkinson , Natasha Hurley-Walker , Tim Galvin , Kathryn Ross

Our aim in this work is to answer, using simulated narrow-band photometry data, the following general question: What can we learn about galaxies from these new generation cosmological surveys? For instance, can we estimate stellar age and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-29 William Schoenell , Roberto Cid Fernandes , Narciso Benítez , Natalia Vale Asari

Combining redshift and galaxy shape information offers new exciting ways of exploiting the gravitational lensing effect for studying the large scales of the cosmos. One application is the three-dimensional reconstruction of the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Patrick Simon , Andy Taylor , Jan Hartlap

We investigate the Faraday rotation measure (RM) due to the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) through the cosmic web up to cosmological distances, using a model IGMF based on turbulence dynamo in the large-scale structure of the universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Takuya Akahori , Dongsu Ryu

The matrix-based R\'enyi's entropy allows us to directly quantify information measures from given data, without explicit estimation of the underlying probability distribution. This intriguing property makes it widely applied in statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yuxin Dong , Tieliang Gong , Shujian Yu , Hong Chen , Chen Li

The main goal of galaxy surveys is to map the distribution of the galaxies, for the purpose of understanding the properties of this distribution and its implications for the content and the evolution of the universe. However, in order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-17 Didam Duniya

The next generation of galaxy surveys, aiming to observe millions of galaxies, are expensive both in time and cost. This raises questions regarding the optimal investment of this time and money for future surveys. In a previous work, it was…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 P. Paykari , S. Pires , J. -L. Starck , A. H. Jaffe

A novel fractal analysis of the cosmic web structure is carried out, employing the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, data release 7. We consider the large-scale stellar mass distribution, unlike other analyses, and determine its multifractal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Jose Gaite

Handling big data has largely been a major bottleneck in traditional statistical models. Consequently, when accurate point prediction is the primary target, machine learning models are often preferred over their statistical counterparts for…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-02 Arindam Fadikar , Stefan M. Wild , Jonas Chaves-Montero

Filaments are one of the most prominent features visible in the galaxy distribution. Considering the Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Seven (SDSS DR7), we have analyzed the filamentarity in 11 nearly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Biswajit Pandey , Gauri Kulkarni , Somnath Bharadwaj , Tarun Souradeep

This project uses the 2MASS all-sky image database to study the structure of galaxies over a range of luminosities, sizes and morphological types. This first paper in this series will outline the techniques, reliability and data products to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 James Schombert , Anna K. Smith

The angular power spectrum is a natural tool to analyse the observed galaxy number count fluctuations. In a standard analysis, the angular galaxy distribution is sliced into concentric redshift bins and all correlations of its harmonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Guglielmo Faggioli , Konstantinos Tanidis , Stefano Camera

In recent years, radio interferometric observations have achieved high accuracy in determining the absolute values of trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions of maser radiation sources and radio stars. The error in determining the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-09 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova

We present a maximum-likelihood analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing effects in galaxy clusters and in the field. The aim is to determine the accuracy and robustness of constraints that can be obtained on galaxy halo properties in both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marceau Limousin , Jean Paul Kneib , Priyamvada Natarajan

Recent observations using several different telescopes and sky surveys showed patterns of asymmetry in the distribution of galaxies by their spin directions as observed from Earth. These studies were done with data imaged from the Northern…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Lior Shamir

In this paper have written the results of the information analysis of structures. The obtained information estimation (IE) are based on an entropy measure of C. Shannon. Obtained IE is univalent both for the non-isomorphic and for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Alexander Shaydurov

Using the 2MASS Photometric Redshift catalogue we perform a number of statistical tests aimed at detecting possible departures from statistical homogeneity and isotropy in the large-scale structure of the Universe. Making use of the angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 David Alonso , Ana Isabel Salvador , Francisco Javier Sánchez , Maciej Bilicki , Juan García-Bellido , Eusebio Sánchez

The nature of galaxy spin is still not fully known. Iye et al (2021) applied a 3D analysis to a dataset of bright SDSS galaxies that was used in the past for photometric analysis. They showed that the distribution of spin directions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Lior Shamir

In this paper we derive explicit formulas of the R\'enyi information, Shannon entropy and Song measure for the invariant density of one dimensional ergodic diffusion processes. In particular, the diffusion models considered include the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-13 Alessandro De Gregorio , Stefano Iacus