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We evaluate the effectiveness of deep learning (DL) models for reconstructing the masses of galaxy clusters using X-ray photometry data from next-generation surveys. We establish these constraints using a catalogue of realistic mock eROSITA…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 Matthew Ho , John Soltis , Arya Farahi , Daisuke Nagai , August Evrard , Michelle Ntampaka

We investigate the use of deep convolutional neural networks (deep CNNs) for automatic visual detection of galaxy mergers. Moreover, we investigate the use of transfer learning in conjunction with CNNs, by retraining networks first trained…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Sandro Ackermann , Kevin Schawinski , Ce Zhang , Anna K. Weigel , M. Dennis Turp

Galaxies grow and evolve in dark matter halos. Because dark matter is not visible, galaxies' halo masses ($\rm{M}_{\rm{halo}}$) must be inferred indirectly. We present a graph neural network (GNN) model for predicting $\rm{M}_{\rm{halo}}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-20 Nikhil Garuda , John F. Wu , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich

We investigate the ability of machine learning to infer the virial mass ($M_{\rm vir}$) and the scale radius ($r_{\rm s}$) of galaxy clusters from their observables. Using the Uchuu--UniverseMachine galaxy catalog at $z=0.093$, we generate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Hirobumi Tominaga , Asuka Nakamura , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Mohamed H. Abdullah

Context. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been proven to perform fast classification and detection on natural images and have potential to infer astrophysical parameters on the exponentially increasing amount of sky survey imaging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 J. Bialopetravičius , D. Narbutis , V. Vansevičius

We present an analysis of the X-ray properties of the galaxy cluster population in the z=0 snapshot of the IllustrisTNG simulations, utilizing machine learning techniques to perform clustering and regression tasks. We examine five…

Magnetic fields play a crucial role in various astrophysical processes within the intracluster medium, including heat conduction, cosmic ray acceleration, and the generation of synchrotron radiation. However, measuring magnetic field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Jiyao Zhang , Yue Hu , A. Lazarian

One emerging application of machine learning methods is the inference of galaxy cluster masses. In this note, machine learning is used to directly combine five simulated multiwavelength measurements in order to find cluster masses. This is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 J. D. Cohn , Nicholas Battaglia

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

We train three convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to classify galaxies with Galaxy Zoo 2 dataset and extract the activations from the last fully connected layer or the last average pooling layer of CNNs to study the high-dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-17 Jia-Ming Dai , Jizhou Tong

The possibility to constrain cosmological parameters from galaxy surveys using field-level machine learning methods that bypass traditional summary statistics analyses, depends crucially on our ability to generate simulated training sets.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Iñigo Sáez-Casares , Matteo Calabrese , Davide Bianchi , Marina S. Cagliari , Marco Chiarenza , Jean-Marc Christille , Luigi Guzzo

We present a novel approach to identify galaxy clusters that are undergoing a merger using a deep learning approach. This paper uses massive galaxy clusters spanning $0 \leq z \leq 2$ from \textsc{The Three Hundred} project, a suite of…

The circum-galactic medium (CGM) can feasibly be mapped by multiwavelength surveys covering broad swaths of the sky. With multiple large datasets becoming available in the near future, we develop a likelihood-free Deep Learning technique…

We present an algorithm for inferring the dynamical mass of galaxy clusters directly from their respective phase-space distributions, i.e. the observed line-of-sight velocities and projected distances of galaxies from the cluster centre.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Doogesh Kodi Ramanah , Radosław Wojtak , Zoe Ansari , Christa Gall , Jens Hjorth

Machine learning has the potential to improve the reconstruction of the dark matter profile of galaxies with respect to traditional methods, like rotation curves. We demonstrate on the simulation suite Illustris-TNG that a steerable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-23 Martín de los Rios , Serafina Di Gioia , Fabio Iocco , Roberto Trotta

A significant fraction of high redshift star-forming disc galaxies are known to host giant clumps, whose nature and role in galaxy evolution are yet to be understood. In this work we first present a new method based on neural networks to…

Forthcoming imaging surveys will potentially increase the number of known galaxy-scale strong lenses by several orders of magnitude. For this to happen, images of tens of millions of galaxies will have to be inspected to identify potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-29 Euclid Collaboration , L. Leuzzi , M. Meneghetti , G. Angora , R. B. Metcalf , L. Moscardini , P. Rosati , P. Bergamini , F. Calura , B. Clément , R. Gavazzi , F. Gentile , M. Lochner , C. Grillo , G. Vernardos , N. Aghanim , A. Amara , L. Amendola , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , S. Bardelli , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , R. Cledassou , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , J. Dinis , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , M. Farina , S. Farrens , S. Ferriol , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , L. Guzzo , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , I. Hook , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , B. Joachimi , M. Kümmel , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , T. Kitching , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Melchior , Y. Mellier , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , E. Munari , S. -M. Niemi , J. W. Nightingale , T. Nutma , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , M. Schirmer , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , E. Zucca , A. Boucaud , E. Bozzo , C. Colodro-Conde , D. Di Ferdinando , R. Farinelli , J. Graciá-Carpio , N. Mauri , C. Neissner , V. Scottez , M. Tenti , A. Tramacere , Y. Akrami , V. Allevato , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , F. Bernardeau , A. Biviano , S. Borgani , A. S. Borlaff , H. Bretonnière , C. Burigana , R. Cabanac , A. Cappi , C. S. Carvalho , G. Castignani , T. Castro , K. C. Chambers , A. R. Cooray , J. Coupon , S. Davini , S. de la Torre , G. De Lucia , G. Desprez , S. Di Domizio , H. Dole , J. A. Escartin Vigo , S. Escoffier , I. Ferrero , L. Gabarra , K. Ganga , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , K. George , G. Gozaliasl , H. Hildebrandt , M. Huertas-Company , J. J. E. Kajava , V. Kansal , C. C. Kirkpatrick , L. Legrand , A. Loureiro , M. Magliocchetti , G. Mainetti , R. Maoli , M. Martinelli , C. J. A. P. Martins , S. Matthew , L. Maurin , P. Monaco , G. Morgante , S. Nadathur , A. A. Nucita , M. Pöntinen , L. Patrizii , V. Popa , C. Porciani , D. Potter , P. Reimberg , A. G. Sánchez , Z. Sakr , A. Schneider , M. Sereno , P. Simon , A. Spurio Mancini , J. Stadel , J. Steinwagner , R. Teyssier , J. Valiviita , M. Viel , I. A. Zinchenko , H. Domínguez Sánchez

Machine learning has been successfully applied in varied field but whether it is a viable tool for determining the distance to molecular clouds in the Galaxy is an open question. In the Galaxy, the kinematic distance is commonly employed as…

Galaxy-scale strong lenses in galaxy clusters provide a unique tool to investigate their inner mass distribution and the sub-halo density profiles in the low-mass regime, which can be compared with the predictions from cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 G. Angora , P. Rosati , M. Meneghetti , M. Brescia , A. Mercurio , C. Grillo , P. Bergamini , A. Acebron , G. Caminha , M. Nonino , L. Tortorelli , L. Bazzanini , E. Vanzella

Galaxy groups are essential for studying the distribution of matter on a large scale in redshift surveys and for deciphering the link between galaxy traits and their associated halos. In this work, we propose a widely applicable method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Juntao Ma , Jie Wang , Tianxiang Mao , Hongxiang Chen , Yuxi Meng , Xiaohu Yang , Qingyang Li