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ASTROCLADISTICS: MULTIVARIATE EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSIS IN ASTROPHYSICS

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The Hubble tuning fork diagram, based on morphology and established in the 1930s, has always been the preferred scheme for classification of galaxies. However, the current large amount of data up to higher and higher redshifts asks for more sophisticated statistical approaches like multivariate analyses. Clustering analyses are still very confidential, and do not take into account the unavoidable characteristics in our Universe: evolution. Assuming branching evolution of galaxies as a 'transmission with modification', we have shown that the concepts and tools of phylogenetic systematics (cladistics) can be heuristically transposed to the case of galaxies. This approach that we call ``astrocladistics'', has now successfully been applied on several samples of galaxies and globular clusters. Maximum parsimony and distance-based approaches are the most popular methods to produce phylogenetic trees and, like most other studies, we had to discretize our variables. However, since astrophysical data are intrinsically continuous, we are contributing to the growing need for applying phylogenetic methods to continuous characters.
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Didier Fraix-Burnet. ASTROCLADISTICS: MULTIVARIATE EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSIS IN ASTROPHYSICS. Tenth Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences, Dec 2009, Cairo, Egypt. ⟨hal-00487838⟩
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