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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…

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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 extend a machine learning (ML) framework presented previously to model galaxy formation and evolution in a hierarchical universe using N-body + hydrodynamical simulations. In this work, we show that ML is a promising technique to study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 Harshil M. Kamdar , Matthew J. Turk , Robert J. Brunner

We study dynamical mass measurements of galaxy clusters contaminated by interlopers and show that a modern machine learning (ML) algorithm can predict masses by better than a factor of two compared to a standard scaling relation approach.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 M. Ntampaka , H. Trac , D. J. Sutherland , S. Fromenteau , B. Poczos , J. Schneider

In recent years, machine learning (ML) algorithms have been successfully employed in Astronomy for analyzing and interpreting the data collected from various surveys. The need for new robust and efficient data analysis tools in Astronomy is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-12 Muhammad Haider Abbas

We present a machine learning (ML) approach for the prediction of galaxies' dark matter halo masses that achieves an improved performance over conventional methods. We train three ML algorithms (\texttt{XGBoost}, Random Forests, and neural…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 Victor F. Calderon , Andreas A. Berlind

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…

Understanding how galaxies trace the underlying matter density field is essential for characterizing the influence of the large-scale structure on galaxy formation, being therefore a key ingredient in observational cosmology. This…

We present a machine-learning approach for estimating galaxy cluster masses from Chandra mock images. We utilize a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), a deep machine learning tool commonly used in image recognition tasks. The CNN is trained…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-20 M. Ntampaka , J. ZuHone , D. Eisenstein , D. Nagai , A. Vikhlinin , L. Hernquist , F. Marinacci , D. Nelson , R. Pakmor , A. Pillepich , P. Torrey , M. Vogelsberger

We present a deep machine learning (ML) approach to constraining cosmological parameters with multi-wavelength observations of galaxy clusters. The ML approach has two components: an encoder that builds a compressed representation of each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Michelle Ntampaka , Alexey Vikhlinin

In this paper we study the applicability of a set of supervised machine learning (ML) models specifically trained to infer observed related properties of the baryonic component (stars and gas) from a set of features of dark matter only…

Context. Machine-Learning (ML) solves problems by learning patterns from data, with limited or no human guidance. In Astronomy, it is mainly applied to large observational datasets, e.g. for morphological galaxy classification. Aims. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 Mario Pasquato , Chul Chung

Weak gravitational lensing has been used extensively in the past decade to constrain the masses of galaxy clusters, and is the most promising observational technique for providing the mass calibration necessary for precision cosmology with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rachel Mandelbaum , Uros Seljak , Tobias Baldauf , Robert E. Smith

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

A galaxy cluster as the most massive gravitationally-bound object in the Universe, is dominated by Dark Matter, which unfortunately can only be investigated through its interaction with the luminous baryons with some simplified assumptions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Daniel de Andres , Weiguang Cui , Gustavo Yepes , Marco De Petris , Antonio Ferragamo , Federico De Luca , Gianmarco Aversano , Douglas Rennehan

We aim at investigating potential biases in lensing and X-ray methods to measure the cluster mass profiles. We do so by performing realistic simulations of lensing and X-ray observations that are subsequently analyzed using observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Meneghetti , E. Rasia , J. Merten , F. Bellagamba , S. Ettori , P. Mazzotta , K. Dolag

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

Conventional galaxy mass estimation methods suffer from model assumptions and degeneracies. Machine learning, which reduces the reliance on such assumptions, can be used to determine how well present-day observations can yield predictions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-27 Jiani Chu , Hongming Tang , Dandan Xu , Shengdong Lu , Richard Long

The total masses of galaxy clusters characterize many aspects of astrophysics and the underlying cosmology. It is crucial to obtain reliable and accurate mass estimates for numerous galaxy clusters over a wide range of redshifts and mass…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Sheng-Chieh Lin , Yuanyuan Su , Gongbo Liang , Yuanyuan Zhang , Nathan Jacobs , Yu Zhang

This article is the second in a series in which we perform an extensive comparison of various galaxy-based cluster mass estimation techniques that utilise the positions, velocities and colours of galaxies. Our aim is to quantify the…

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