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The origin of cosmic rays (CRs) has puzzled scientists since the pioneering discovery by Victor Hess in 1912. In the last decade, however, modern supercomputers have opened a new window on the processes regulating astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-27 Damiano Caprioli

Fitting parameterized models to images of galaxies has become the standard for measuring galaxy morphology. This forward modelling technique allows one to account for the PSF to effectively study semi-resolved galaxies. However, using a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Tim B. Miller , Pieter van Dokkum

Compressive sensing (CS) is an emerging field based on the revelation that a small collection of linear projections of a sparse signal contains enough information for stable, sub-Nyquist signal acquisition. When a statistical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-25 Dror Baron , Shriram Sarvotham , Richard G. Baraniuk

The propagation of charged cosmic rays through the Galactic environment influences all aspects of the observation at Earth. Energy spectrum, composition and arrival directions are changed due to deflections in magnetic fields and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Lukas Merten , Julia Becker Tjus , Horst Fichtner , Björn Eichmann , Günter Sigl

In this article we consider Bayesian estimation of static parameters for a class of partially observed McKean-Vlasov diffusion processes with discrete-time observations over a fixed time interval. This problem features several obstacles to…

Computation · Statistics 2025-04-23 Ajay Jasra , Amin Wu

The physical interpretation of spectro-interferometric data is strongly model-dependent. On one hand, models involving elaborate radiative transfer solvers are too time consuming in general to perform an automatic fitting procedure and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Gilles Niccolini , Philippe Bendjoya , Armando Domiciano De Souza

The propagation of high-energy cosmic rays through giant molecular clouds constitutes a fundamental process in astronomy and astrophysics. The diffusion of cosmic-rays through these magnetically turbulent environments is often studied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Marco Fatuzzo , Fulvio Melia , Elizabeth Todd , Fred Adams

Cosmological parameter inference has been dominated by the Bayesian approach for the past two decades, primarily due to its computational efficiency. However, the Bayesian approach involves integration of the posterior probability and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-10 Emil Brinch Holm , Andreas Nygaard , Jeppe Dakin , Steen Hannestad , Thomas Tram

Estimation of parameters that obey specific constraints is crucial in statistics and machine learning; for example, when parameters are required to satisfy boundedness, monotonicity, or linear inequalities. Traditional approaches impose…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-03 Lachlan Astfalck , Deborshee Sen , Sayan Patra , Edward Cripps , David Dunson

We calculate the diffuse intensity of cosmic ray (CR) nuclei and their secondaries in the Boron-Carbon group produced by supernova remnants (SNR). The trajectories of charged particles in the SNR are modeled as a random walk in the test…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-04 M. Kachelriess , S. Ostapchenko

A flux of extra-terrestrial neutrinos at energies $\gg10^{15}$ eV has the potential to serve as a cosmological probe of the high-energy universe as well as tests of fundamental particle interactions. Cosmogenic neutrinos, produced from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-25 Andres Romero-Wolf , Maximo Ave

The secondary-to-primary ratios are unique tools to investigate cosmic ray propagation mechanisms. In this work, we use the latest data of deuteron-to-helium~4 ratio and helium~3-to-helium~4 ratio measured by PAMELA combined with other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-31 Juan Wu , Chen Huan

We present a strategy for a statistically rigorous Bayesian approach to the problem of determining cosmological parameters from the results of observations of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. Our strategy relies on Markov…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Nelson Christensen , Renate Meyer , Lloyd Knox , Ben Luey

High-energy gamma rays of interstellar origin are produced by the interaction of cosmic-ray (CR) particles with the diffuse gas and radiation fields in the Galaxy. The main features of this emission are well understood and are reproduced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Troy A. Porter , Gudlaugur Johannesson , Igor V. Moskalenko

Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) are affected by solar modulation while they propagate through the heliosphere. The study of the time variation of GCR spectra observed at Earth can shed light on the underlying physical processes, specifically…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-09-18 Claudio Corti , Peter Sadowski , Nikolay Nikonov , Marius Potgieter , Veronica Bindi

We present a newly developed version of BayeSED, a general Bayesian approach to the spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting of galaxies. The new BayeSED code has been systematically tested on a mock sample of galaxies. The comparison…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-13 Yunkun Han , Zhanwen Han

The results of simulations of the extragalactic propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) have intrinsic uncertainties due to poorly known physical quantities and approximations used in the codes. We quantify the uncertainties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-15 Rafael Alves Batista , Denise Boncioli , Armando di Matteo , Arjen van Vliet , David Walz

We perform a comprehensive analysis of cosmic-ray propagation using the time-dependent AMS-02 flux measurements covering a full solar cycle, with particular emphasis on the role of solar modulation. We fit two representative Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-23 Isabelle John , Alessandro Cuoco , Mattia Di Mauro

Fitting the multi-wavelength spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies is a widely used technique to extract information about the physical properties of galaxies. However, a major difficulty lies in the numerous uncertainties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 Yunkun Han , Zhanwen Han , Lulu Fan

To answer the fundamental questions concerning the origin and nature of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), it is important to confront data with simulated astrophysical scenarios. These scenarios should include detailed information on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-12 R. Alves Batista , M. Erdmann , C. Evoli , K. -H. Kampert , D. Kuempel , G. Müller , G. Sigl , A. van Vliet , D. Walz , T. Winchen