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Recovering Galaxy Cluster Convergence from Lensed CMB with Generative Adversarial Networks

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-11-17 v1

Abstract

We present a new method which leverages conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGAN) to reconstruct galaxy cluster convergence from lensed CMB temperature maps. Our model is constructed to emphasize structure and high-frequency correctness relative to the Residual U-Net approach presented by Caldeira, et. al. (2019). Ultimately, we demonstrate that while both models perform similarly in the no-noise regime (as well as after random off-centering of the cluster center), cGAN outperforms ResUNet when processing CMB maps noised with 5uK/arcmin white noise or astrophysical foregrounds (tSZ and kSZ); this out-performance is especially pronounced at high l, which is exactly the regime in which the ResUNet under-performs traditional methods.

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@article{arxiv.2211.08990,
  title  = {Recovering Galaxy Cluster Convergence from Lensed CMB with Generative Adversarial Networks},
  author = {Liam Parker and Dongwon Han and Pablo Lemos Portela and Shirley Ho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.08990},
  year   = {2022}
}