MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541123242 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 6, 2025, for 'hierarchical galaxy supercluster detection using astronomical survey data.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Manoov Rajapandy; and Mr. Darshan M Bharat.
The application for the patent was published on Jan. 2, under issue no. 01/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for hierarchical detection of galaxy superclusters from astronomical survey data. The method includes acquiring astronomical survey data including celestial coordinates, redshift measurements, and photometric magnitudes for galaxies, transforming coordinates and redshift measurements into three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates using a cosmological model, computing a flux proxy for each galaxy from photometric magnitude data, applying a first density-based clustering algorithm to the three-dimensional coordinates to identify galaxy clusters, computing weighted centroids for each cluster weighted by flux proxy values, applying a second density-based clustering algorithm to the weighted centroids to identify superclusters, and mapping supercluster labels back to individual galaxies. The system processes SDSS data through a modular pipeline (FIG. 1) that transforms celestial coordinates into Cartesian space and applies hierarchical clustering to detect cosmic structures at multiple scales."
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