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This series of papers is dedicated to a new technique to select galaxies that can act as standard rods and standard candles in order to perform geometrical tests on large samples of high redshift galaxies to constrain different cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Saintonge , K. L. Masters , C. Marinoni , K. Spekkens , R. Giovanelli , M. P. Haynes

The purpose of this work is to perform a statistical analysis of the location of compact groups in the Universe from observational and semi-analytical points of view. We used the velocity-filtered compact group sample extracted from the Two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-10 Eugenia Diaz-Gimenez , Ariel Zandivarez

We present a data-driven method to infer the redshift distribution of an arbitrary dataset based on spatial cross-correlation with a reference population and we apply it to various datasets across the electromagnetic spectrum to show its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-31 Brice Ménard , Ryan Scranton , Samuel Schmidt , Chris Morrison , Donghui Jeong , Tamas Budavari , Mubdi Rahman

A galaxy group catalog is constructed from the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) with the use of a halo-based group finder. The halo mass associated with a group is estimated using a `GAP' method based on the luminosity of the central galaxy and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-23 Yi Lu , Xiaohu Yang , Feng Shi , H. J. Mo , Dylan Tweed , Huiyuan Wang , Youcai Zhang , Shijie Li , S. H. Lim

Recent social recommender systems benefit from friendship graph to make an accurate recommendation, believing that friends in a social network have exactly the same interests and preferences. Some studies have benefited from hard clustering…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Marzieh Pourhojjati-Sabet , Azam Rabiee

The alignment of clusters of galaxies with their nearest neighbours and between clusters within a supercluster is investigated using simulations of 512^{3} dark matter particles for \LambdaCDM and \tauCDM cosmological models. Strongly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. I. Onuora , P. A. Thomas

We investigate structures in the D1 CFHTLS deep field in order to test the method that will be applied to generate homogeneous samples of clusters and groups of galaxies in order to constrain cosmology and detailed physics of groups and…

We analyse a catalogue of simulated clusters within the theoretical framework of the Spherical Collapse Model (SCM), and demonstrate that the relation between the infall velocity of member galaxies and the cluster matter overdensity can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Guido Cupani , Marino Mezzetti , Fabio Mardirossian

Machine learning techniques offer a precious tool box for use within astronomy to solve problems involving so-called big data. They provide a means to make accurate predictions about a particular system without prior knowledge of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-01 J. Elliott , R. S. de Souza , A. Krone-Martins , E. Cameron , E. E. O. Ishida , J. Hilbe

Complex real-world networks commonly reveal characteristic groups of nodes like communities and modules. These are of value in various applications, especially in the case of large social and information networks. However, while numerous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Lovro Šubelj , Marko Bajec

In machine learning and computer vision, mean shift (MS) qualifies as one of the most popular mode-seeking algorithms used for clustering and image segmentation. It iteratively moves each data point to the weighted mean of its neighborhood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Abhishek Kumar , Oladayo S. Ajani , Swagatam Das , Rammohan Mallipeddi

We present a new algorithm to detect inter-cluster galaxy filaments based upon the assumption that the orientations of constituent galaxies along such filaments are non-isotropic. We apply the algorithm to the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kevin A. Pimbblet

Understanding the physical and evolutionary properties of Hot Stellar Systems (HSS) is a major challenge in astronomy. We studied the dataset on 13456 HSS of Misgeld and Hilker (2011) that includes 12763 candidate globular clusters using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 Souradeep Chattopadhyay , Steven D. Kawaler , Ranjan Maitra

This paper presents the identification of galaxy clusters from the photometric redshift catalog based on three imaging surveys of SCUSS, SDSS, and unWISE. By applying a fast clustering algorithm, we obtain a total of 19,610 clusters in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-22 Jinghua Gao , Hu Zou , Xu Zhou , Xu Kong

We use the two-point correlation function in redshift space, $\xi(s)$, to study the clustering of the galaxies and groups of the Nearby Optical Galaxy (NOG) sample, which is a nearly all-sky, complete, magnitude-limited sample of $\sim$7000…

The accurate determination of the true redshift distributions in tomographic bins is critical for cosmological constraints from photometric surveys. The proposed redshift self-calibration method, which utilizes the photometric galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Hui Peng , Yu Yu

Clustering, a fundamental task in data science and machine learning, groups a set of objects in such a way that objects in the same cluster are closer to each other than to those in other clusters. In this paper, we consider a well-known…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Georgia Avarikioti , Alain Ryser , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

We present a statistical analysis of voids in the 2dF galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS). In order to detect the voids, we have developed two robust algorithms. We define voids as non-overlapping maximal spheres empty of halos or galaxies with…

Improving the theoretical description of galaxy clustering on small scales is an important challenge in cosmology, as it can considerably increase the scientific return of forthcoming galaxy surveys -- e.g. tightening the bounds on neutrino…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez , Jens Stuecker , Raul E. Angulo , Matteo Zennaro , Sergio Contreras , Giovanni Arico

Data from the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Sources (SPIDERS) are searched for a detection of the gravitational redshifting of light from $\sim\!20\,000$ galaxies in $\sim\!2500$ galaxy clusters using three definitions of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-02 C. T. Mpetha , C. A. Collins , N. Clerc , A. Finoguenov , J. A. Peacock , J. Comparat , D. Schneider , R. Capasso , S. Damsted , K. Furnell , A. Merloni , N. D. Padilla , A. Saro