The AstroStat Slog » FARIMA http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:05:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 [ArXiv] 1st week, May 2008 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/arxiv-1st-week-may-2008/ http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/arxiv-1st-week-may-2008/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 02:42:54 +0000 hlee http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=298 I think I have to review spatial statistics in astronomy, focusing on tessellation (void structure), point process (expanding 2 (3) point correlation function), and marked point process (spatial distribution of hardness ratios of X-ray distant sources, different types of galaxies -not only morphological differences but other marks such as absolute magnitudes and existence of particular features). When? Someday…

In addition to Bayesian methodologies, like this week’s astro-ph, studies on characterizing empirical spatial distributions of voids and galaxies frequently appear, which I believe can be enriched further with the ideas from stochastic geometry and spatial statistics. Click for what was appeared in arXiv this week.

  • [astro-ph:0805.0156]R. D’Abrusco, G. Longo, N. A. Walton
    Quasar candidates selection in the Virtual Observatory era

  • [astro-ph:0805.0201] S. Vegetti& L.V.E. Koopmans
    Bayesian Strong Gravitational-Lens Modelling on Adaptive Grids: Objective Detection of Mass Substructure in Galaxies (many like to see this paper: nest sampling implemented, discusses penalty function and tessllation)

  • [astro-ph:0805.0238] J. A. Carter et al.
    Analytic Approximations for Transit Light Curve Observables, Uncertainties, and Covariances

  • [astro-ph:0805.0269] S.M.Leach et al.
    Component separation methods for the Planck mission

  • [astro-ph:0805.0276] M. Grossi et al.
    The mass density field in simulated non-Gaussian scenarios

  • [astro-ph:0805.0790] Ceccarelli, Padilla, & Lambas
    Large-scale modulation of star formation in void walls
    [astro-ph:0805.0797] Ceccarelli et al.
    Voids in the 2dFGRS and LCDM simulations: spatial and dynamical properties

  • [astro-ph:0805.0875] S. Basilakos and L. Perivolaropoulos
    Testing GRBs as Standard Candles

  • [astro-ph:0805.0968] A. A. Stanislavsky et al.
    Statistical Modeling of Solar Flare Activity from Empirical Time Series of Soft X-ray Solar Emission
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