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Context: The huge and still rapidly growing amount of galaxies in modern sky surveys raises the need of an automated and objective classification method. Unsupervised learning algorithms are of particular interest, since they discover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Rene Andrae , Peter Melchior , Matthias Bartelmann

Nowadays, Machine Learning techniques offer fast and efficient solutions for classification problems that would require intensive computational resources via traditional methods. We examine the use of a supervised Random Forest to classify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 I. Marini , S. Borgani , A. Saro , G. Murante , G. L. Granato , C. Ragone-Figueroa , G. Taffoni

Understanding the impact of halo properties beyond halo mass on the clustering of galaxies (namely galaxy assembly bias) remains a challenge for contemporary models of galaxy clustering. We explore the use of machine learning to predict the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Xiaoju Xu , Saurabh Kumar , Idit Zehavi , Sergio Contreras

Surveys based on the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect provide a fresh view of the galaxy cluster population, one that is complementary to X-ray surveys. To better understand the relation between these two kinds of survey, we construct an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 A. Chamballu , J. G. Bartlett , J. -B. Melin

In modern astrophysics, the machine learning has increasingly gained more popularity with its incredibly powerful ability to make predictions or calculated suggestions for large amounts of data. We describe an application of the supervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-26 Yu Bai , JiFeng Liu , Song Wang , Fan Yang

The mass accretion rate of galaxy clusters is a key factor in determining their structure, but a reliable observational tracer has yet to be established. We present a state-of-the-art machine learning model for constraining the mass…

We investigate machine learning (ML) techniques for predicting the number of galaxies (N_gal) that occupy a halo, given the halo's properties. These types of mappings are crucial for constructing the mock galaxy catalogs necessary for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Xiaoying Xu , Shirley Ho , Hy Trac , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos , Michelle Ntampaka

Sophisticated analysis of modern large-scale structure surveys requires mock catalogs. Mock catalogs are used to optimize survey design, test reduction and analysis pipelines, make theoretical predictions for basic observables and propagate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Martin White , Jeremy L Tinker , Cameron K McBride

As the signal-to-noise of Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) cross-correlation measurements of galaxies improves our ability to infer properties about the circumgalactic medium (CGM), we will transition from being limited by statistical uncertainties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-20 Emily Moser , Stefania Amodeo , Nicholas Battaglia , Marcelo A. Alvarez , Simone Ferraro , Emmanuel Schaan

Matched filters are routinely used in cosmology in order to detect galaxy clusters from mm observations through their thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) signature. In addition, they naturally provide an observable, the detection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Íñigo Zubeldia , Aditya Rotti , Jens Chluba , Richard Battye

Clusters of galaxies as gravitational lenses allow to study the stellar content and properties of high-z galaxies much fainter than the usual spectroscopic field surveys. We review the recent results obtained on the identification and study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roser Pello

We have created mock Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) surveys of galaxy clusters using high resolution N-body simulations. To the pure surveys we add `noise' contributions appropriate to instrument and primary CMB anisotropies. Applying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. E. Schulz , Martin White

[Abridged] Galaxy clusters are the most massive gravitationally-bound systems in the universe and are widely considered to be an effective cosmological probe. We propose the first Machine Learning method using galaxy cluster properties to…

Reliable extraction of cosmological information from clustering measurements of galaxy surveys requires estimation of the error covariance matrices of observables. The accuracy of covariance matrices is limited by our ability to generate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-29 Mohammadjavad Vakili , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Yu Feng , Gustavo Yepes , Cheng Zhao , Chia-Hsun Chuang , ChangHoon Hahn

We present a new application of deep learning to infer the masses of galaxy clusters directly from images of the microwave sky. Effectively, this is a novel approach to determining the scaling relation between a cluster's Sunyaev-Zel'dovich…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-16 Nikhel Gupta , Christian L. Reichardt

We discuss a method to build up and study a sample of distant galaxies, with 2<z<5, using the gravitational amplification effect in cluster-lenses for which the mass distribution is well known. The candidates are selected close to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Pello , J. P. Kneib , G. Bruzual , J. M. Miralles

The efficient classification of different types of supernova is one of the most important problems for observational cosmology. However, spectroscopic confirmation of most objects in upcoming photometric surveys, such as the The Rubin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-17 Marcelo Vargas dos Santos , Miguel Quartin , Ribamar R. R. Reis

In the present work we focus on future experiments using cluster abundance observations to constraint the Dark Energy equation of state parameter, w. To obtain tight constraints from this kind of experiment, a reliable sample of galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-22 M. Soares-Santos , R. R. de Carvalho , F. La Barbera , P. A. A. Lopes , J. Annis

We present a set of mock redshift catalogs, constructed from N-body simulations, designed to mimic the DEEP2 survey. Galaxies with a range of luminosities are placed within virialized halos in the simulation using a variant of the halo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Renbin Yan , Martin White , Alison L. Coil

We present a machine learning approach for estimating galaxy cluster masses, trained using both Chandra and eROSITA mock X-ray observations of 2,041 clusters from the Magneticum simulations. We train a random forest regressor, an ensemble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-14 Sheridan B. Green , Michelle Ntampaka , Daisuke Nagai , Lorenzo Lovisari , Klaus Dolag , Dominique Eckert , John A. ZuHone