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We present a modern machine learning approach for cluster dynamical mass measurements that is a factor of two improvement over using a conventional scaling relation. Different methods are tested against a mock cluster catalog constructed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 Michelle Ntampaka , Hy Trac , Danica J. Sutherland , Nicholas Battaglia , Barnabas Poczos , Jeff Schneider

We present a new application of deep learning to reconstruct the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps from the images of microwave sky, and to use these reconstructed maps to estimate the masses of galaxy clusters. We use a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-17 N. Gupta , C. L. Reichardt

In this paper we discuss an application of machine learning based methods to the identification of candidate AGN from optical survey data and to the automatic classification of AGNs in broad classes. We applied four different machine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-14 Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Raffaele D'Abrusco , Giuseppe Longo , Maurizio Paolillo

Quickly growing computing facilities and an increasing number of extragalactic observations encourage the application of data-driven approaches to uncover hidden relations from astronomical data. In this work we raise the problem of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 A. Elyiv , O. Melnyk , I. Vavilova , D. Dobrycheva , V. Karachentseva

Identifying galaxy groups from redshift surveys of galaxies plays an important role in connecting galaxies with the underlying dark matter distribution. Current and future high-$z$ spectroscopic surveys, usually incomplete in redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Kai Wang , H. J. Mo , Cheng Li , Jiacheng Meng , Yangyao Chen

Galaxy clusters are powerful probes of astrophysics and cosmology through gravitational lensing: the clusters' mass, dominated by 85% dark matter, distorts background light. Yet, mass reconstruction lacks the scalability and large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Diego Royo , Brandon Zhao , Adolfo Muñoz , Diego Gutierrez , Katherine L. Bouman

Galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing is not only a valuable probe of the dark matter distribution of massive galaxies, but can also provide valuable cosmological constraints, either by studying the population of strong lenses or by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Francois Lanusse , Quanbin Ma , Nan Li , Thomas E. Collett , Chun-Liang Li , Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Rachel Mandelbaum , Barnabas Poczos

We have developed a machine learning algorithm capable of detecting ``out-of-domain data'' for trustworthy cosmological inference. By using data from two separate suites of cosmological simulations, we show that our algorithm is able to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Ethan Tregidga , David Harvey , Luca Biggio , Felix Vecchi

Insufficient capability of existing subspace clustering methods to handle data coming from nonlinear manifolds, data corruptions, and out-of-sample data hinders their applicability to address real-world clustering and classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Dario Sitnik , Ivica Kopriva

Globular clusters (GCs) are often used to estimate the dark matter content of galaxies, especially dwarfs, where other kinematic tracers are lacking. These estimates typically assume spherical symmetry and dynamical equilibrium, assumptions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Jessica E. Doppel , Laura V. Sales , Julio F. Navarro , Mario G. Abadi , Eric W. Peng , Elisa Toloba

Deep imaging data from the Keck II telescope are employed to study the globular cluster (GC) populations in the cores of six rich Abell clusters. The sample includes A754, A1644, A2124, A2147, A2151, and A2152, and spans the redshift range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John P. Blakeslee

In this paper we present a new dynamical systems algorithm for clustering in hyperspectral images. The main idea of the algorithm is that data points are \`pushed\' in the direction of increasing density and groups of pixels that end up in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 William F. Basener , Alexey Castrodad , David Messinger , Jennifer Mahle , Paul Prue

We train deep learning models on thousands of galaxy catalogues from the state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of the CAMELS project to perform regression and inference. We employ Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), architectures designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-10 Pablo Villanueva-Domingo , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

Attributed graph clustering or community detection which learns to cluster the nodes of a graph is a challenging task in graph analysis. In this paper, we introduce a contrastive learning framework for learning clustering-friendly node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Maedeh Ahmadi , Mehran Safayani , Abdolreza Mirzaei

In this paper, a deep convolutional neural network architecture for galaxies classification is presented. The galaxy can be classified based on its features into main three categories Elliptical, Spiral, and Irregular. The proposed deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Nour Eldeen M. Khalifa , Mohamed Hamed N. Taha , Aboul Ella Hassanien , I. M. Selim

Machine learning (ML) techniques, in particular supervised regression algorithms, are a promising new way to use multiple observables to predict a cluster's mass or other key features. To investigate this approach we use the \textsc{MACSIS}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Thomas J. Armitage , Scott T. Kay , David J. Barnes

We present an unsupervised machine learning technique that automatically segments and labels galaxies in astronomical imaging surveys using only pixel data. Distinct from previous unsupervised machine learning approaches used in astronomy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Alex Hocking , James E. Geach , Yi Sun , Neil Davey

In recent years, automated, supervised classification techniques have been fruitfully applied to labeling and organizing large astronomical databases. These methods require off-line classifier training, based on labeled examples from each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Bazell , David J. Miller

In this paper, we address an issue of finding explainable clusters of class-uniform data in labelled datasets. The issue falls into the domain of interpretable supervised clustering. Unlike traditional clustering, supervised clustering aims…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Natallia Kokash , Leonid Makhnist

We introduce a new clustering algorithm, MulGuisin (MGS), that can identify distinct galaxy over-densities using topological information from the galaxy distribution. This algorithm was first introduced in an LHC experiment as a Jet Finder…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-20 Young Ju , Inkyu Park , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Sungwook E. Hong