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The redshift distribution of galactic-scale lensing systems provides a laboratory to probe the velocity dispersion function (VDF) of early-type galaxies (ETGs) and measure the evolution of early-type galaxies at redshift z ~ 1. Through the…

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The probability distribution functions of the circulation of velocity in three-dimensional decaying isotropic turbulence are examined by the database of the numerical simulation based on the pseudospectral method. It is shown that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Makoto Umeki

Conditional statistics of homogeneous isotropic turbulent flow is investigated by means of high-Reynolds number direct numerical simulations performed with $2048^3$ collocation points. Eulerian as well as Lagrangian velocity increment…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Holger Homann , Daniel Schulz , Rainer Grauer

The probability distribution functions (PDF) of density of the ISM in galactic disks and global star formation rate are discussed. Three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations show that the PDFs in globally stable, inhomogeneous ISM in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Keiichi Wada , Colin Norman

Primordial, non-Gaussian perturbations can generate scale-dependent bias in the galaxy distribution. This in turn will modify correlations between galaxy positions and peculiar velocities at late times, since peculiar velocities reflect the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yin-Zhe Ma , James E. Taylor , Douglas Scott

Within the framework of hierarchical clustering we show that a simple Press-Schechter-like approximation, based on spherical dynamics, provides a good estimate of the evolution of the density field in the quasi-linear regime up to $\Sigma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Valageas

The one-point probability distribution function (PDF) is a powerful summary statistic for non-Gaussian cosmological fields, such as the weak lensing (WL) convergence reconstructed from galaxy shapes or cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Leander Thiele , J. Colin Hill , Kendrick M. Smith

The purpose of the present paper is to derive a partial differential equation (PDE) for the single-time single-point probability density function (PDF) of the velocity field of a turbulent flow. The PDF PDE is a highly non-linear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-07-08 Jiawei Li , Zhongmin Qian , Mingrui Zhou

Basing our discussion on the Lagrangian description of hydrodynamics, we studied the evolution of density fluctuation for nonlinear cosmological dynamics. Adhesion approximation (AA) is known as a phenomenological model that describes the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takayuki Tatekawa

Velocity distributions in a vibrated granular monolayer are investigated experimentally. Non-Gaussian velocity distributions are observed at low vibration amplitudes but cross over smoothly to Gaussian distributions as the amplitude is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 J. S. Olafsen , J. S. Urbach

We study the evolution of the mass autocorrelation function by describing the growth of density fluctuations through the Zel'dovich approximation. The results are directly compared with the predictions of the scaling hypothesis for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Cristiano Porciani

In a search for the signature of turbulence in the diffuse interstellar medium in gas density distributions, we determined the probability distribution functions (PDFs) of the average volume densities of the diffuse gas. The densities were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. M. Berkhuijsen , A. Fletcher

We derive the asymptotic behaviour of the one point probability density for the inhomogeneous shock slopes in the turbulent regime, when a Gaussian fluctuating flux at origin derives the system. We also calculate the time dependence of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Jahanshah Davoudi , Shahin Rouhani

We study the one-dimensional Burgers equation in the inviscid limit for Brownian initial velocity (i.e. the initial velocity is a two-sided Brownian motion that starts from the origin x=0). We obtain the one-point distribution of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-03 P. Valageas

We report on probability-density-functions (PDF) of the mass density in numerical simulations of highly compressible hydrodynamic flows and the corresponding structure formation of Lagrangian particles advected by the flows. Numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christoph Beetz , Christian Schwarz , Jürgen Dreher , Rainer Grauer

While second and higher order correlations of the light distribution have received extensive study, the lowest order probability distribution function (PDF) -- the probability that a unit volume of space will emit a given amount of light --…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Kentaro Nagamine , Renyue Cen , Masataka Fukugita

Consider randomly picked points inside the n-dimensional unit hypersphere centered at the origin of the Cartesian coordinate system. The Cartesian coordinates of the points are random variables, which form an n-dimensional vector for each…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-04 Argyn Kuketayev

Random advection of Lagrangian tracer scalar field $\theta (t,x)$ by a one-dimensional, spatially smooth and short-correlated in time velocity field is considered. Scalar fluctuations are maintained by a source concentrated at the integral…

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We present a first principle approach to obtain analytical predictions for spherically-averaged cosmic densities in the mildly non-linear regime that go well beyond what is usually achieved by standard perturbation theory. A large deviation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Cora Uhlemann , Sandrine Codis , Christophe Pichon , Francis Bernardeau , Paulo Reimberg

We present N-body cosmological numerical simulations including a primordial non-Gaussianity in the density fluctuation field quantified by the non-linear parameter $f_{NL}$. We have used MPGRAFIC code to produce initial conditions and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Fraschetti , J. M. Alimi , J. Courtin , P. S. Corasaniti