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We develop the theoretical basis for the connection of the variety of anisotropic distributions with the statistical correlations among particles velocity components. By examining the most common anisotropic distribution, we derive the…

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In this work, we aim to advance the Universal Rotation Curve (URC) paradigm by leveraging new data and extending its observational domain. Building on previous studies that established the URC using optical rotation curves reaching the…

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In this work we investigate the multivariate statistical description of the matter distribution in the nonlinear regime. We introduce the multivariate Edgeworth expansion of the lognormal distribution to model the cosmological matter field.…

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We present a new method to determine the probability distribution of the 3-D shapes of galaxy clusters from the 2-D images using stereology. In contrast to the conventional approach of combining different data sets (such as X-rays,…

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We develop a simple, fast and predictive model of the hierarchical formation of galaxies which is in quantitative agreement with observations. Comparing simulations with observations we place constraints on the density of the universe and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 B. Hoeneisen

Let ${\bf X}$ and ${\bf X}$ be two $n$-dimensional elliptical random vectors, we establish an identity for $E[f({\bf Y})]-E[f({\bf X})]$, where $f: \Bbb{R}^n \rightarrow \Bbb{R}$ fulfilling some regularity conditions. Using this identity we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Chuancun Yin

Elliptically symmetric distributions are a classic example of a semiparametric model where the location vector and the scatter matrix (or a parameterization of them) are the two finite-dimensional parameters of interest, while the density…

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This note corrects a technical error in Guardiola (2020, Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications), presents updated derivations, and offers an extended discussion of the properties of the spherical Dirichlet distribution.…

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The disks of spiral galaxies are generally elliptical rather than circular. The distribution of ellipticities can be fit with a log-normal distribution. For a sample of 12,764 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 1 (SDSS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Barbara S. Ryden

A new method is developed which permits the reconstruction of the surface-density distribution in the galactic disk of finite radius from an arbitrary smooth distribution of the angular velocity via two simple quadratures. The existence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. R. Sibgatullin , A. A. Garcia , V. S. Manko

Connecting the collective behavior of disordered systems with local structure on the particle scale is an important challenge, for example in granular and glassy systems. Compounding complexity, in many scientific and industrial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-21 Fabian M. Schaller , Robert F. B. Weigel , Sebastian C. Kapfer

We examine the growth of eccentricities of a population of particles with initially circular orbits around a central massive body. Successive encounters between pairs of particles increase the eccentricities in the disk on average. As long…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Benjamin F. Collins , Hilke E. Schlichting , Re'em Sari

A framework to systematically decouple high order elliptic equations into combination of Poisson-type and Stokes-type equations is developed. The key is to systematically construct the underling commutative diagrams involving the complexes…

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The cosmic crystallography method of Lehoucq et al. [1] produces sharp peaks in the distribution of distances between the images of cosmic sources. But the method cannot be applied to universes with compact spatial sections of negative…

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Sampling from circular distributions is a fundamental task in directional statistics. A key challenge in acceptance-rejection methods lies in selecting an efficient envelope density, as poor choices can lead to low acceptance rates and…

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We study a family of parametric statistical models based on gamma distributions, which do give realistic descriptions for other stochastic porous media. Gamma distributions contain as a special case the exponential distributions, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 C. T. J. Dodson

As a step towards a more accurate modelling of redshift-space distortions in galaxy surveys, we develop a general description of the probability distribution function of galaxy pairwise velocities within the framework of the so-called…

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The aim of this paper is to tackle the nonlinear optical reconstruction problem. Given a set of acousto-optic measurements, we develop a mathematical framework for the reconstruction problem in the case where the optical absorption…

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We performed H-alpha imaging observations of 22 luminous infrared galaxies to investigate how the distribution of star-forming regions in these galaxies is related to galaxy interactions. Based on correlation diagrams between H-alpha flux…

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