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This paper presents a new method for the reconstruction of weak lensing mass maps. It uses the multiscale entropy concept, which is based on wavelets, and the False Discovery Rate which allows us to derive robust detection levels in wavelet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean-Luc Starck , Sandrine Pires , Alexandre Refregier

High-resolution mapping of cosmic mass distribution is essential for a variety of astrophysical applications including understanding cosmic structure formation, and galaxy formation and evolution. However dark matter is not directly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Supranta S. Boruah , Michael Jacob , Bhuvnesh Jain , Riya Maiya , Raghav Venkataramanan

We introduce a novel method for reconstructing the projected matter distributions of galaxy clusters with weak-lensing (WL) data based on convolutional neural network (CNN). Training datasets are generated with ray-tracing through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-30 Sungwook E. Hong , Sangnam Park , M. James Jee , Dongsu Bak , Sangjun Cha

Next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments will have lower noise and therefore increased sensitivity, enabling improved constraints on fundamental physics parameters such as the sum of neutrino masses and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-16 João Caldeira , W. L. Kimmy Wu , Brian Nord , Camille Avestruz , Shubhendu Trivedi , Kyle T. Story

Data-driven approaches using deep learning are emerging as powerful techniques to extract non-Gaussian information from cosmological large-scale structure. This work presents the first simulation-based inference (SBI) pipeline that combines…

Motivated by the limitations encountered with the commonly used direct reconstruction techniques of producing mass maps, we have developed a multi-resolution maximum-likelihood reconstruction method for producing two dimensional mass maps…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Khiabanian , I. P. Dell'Antonio

Deep learning is a powerful analysis technique that has recently been proposed as a method to constrain cosmological parameters from weak lensing mass maps. Due to its ability to learn relevant features from the data, it is able to extract…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak , Aurelien Lucchi , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Thomas Hofmann

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

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 apply a mass reconstruction technique to simulated large-scale structure gravitational distortion maps, from 2.5' to 10 degree scales, for different cosmological scenarii. The projected mass is reconstructed using a non-parametric least…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Van Waerbeke , F. Bernardeau , Y. Mellier

Understanding the large-scale structure of the Universe and unravelling the mysteries of dark matter are fundamental challenges in contemporary cosmology. Reconstruction of the cosmological matter distribution from lensing observables,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Jessica Whitney , Tobías Liaudat , Matt Price , Matthijs Mars , Jason D. McEwen

Modelling the mass distributions of strong gravitational lenses is often necessary to use them as astrophysical and cosmological probes. With the high number of lens systems ($>10^5$) expected from upcoming surveys, it is timely to explore…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 S. Schuldt , S. H. Suyu , T. Meinhardt , L. Leal-Taixé , R. Cañameras , S. Taubenberger , A. Halkola

The accurate reconstruction of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps and the measurement of its power spectrum are crucial for studying the early universe. In this paper, we implement a convolutional neural network to apply the Wiener…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Belén Costanza , Claudia G. Scóccola , Matías Zaldarriaga

Removing the shape noise from the observed weak lensing field, i.e., denoising, enhances the potential of WL by accessing information at small scales where the shape noise dominates without denoising. We utilise two machine learning (ML)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Shohei D. Aoyama , Ken Osato , Masato Shirasaki

We propose a new mass-mapping algorithm, specifically designed to recover small-scale information from a combination of gravitational shear and flexion. Including flexion allows us to supplement the shear on small scales in order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Francois Lanusse , Jean-Luc Starck , Adrienne Leonard , Sandrine Pires

Cosmic shear is a primary cosmological probe for several present and upcoming surveys investigating dark matter and dark energy, such as Euclid or WFIRST. The probe requires an extremely accurate measurement of the shapes of millions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-04 Malte Tewes , Thibault Kuntzer , Reiko Nakajima , Frédéric Courbin , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Tim Schrabback

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have recently been demonstrated on synthetic data to improve upon the precision of cosmological inference. In particular they have the potential to yield more precise cosmological constraints from weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-17 Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak , Aurelien Lucchi , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Thomas Hofmann , Aurel Schneider

We update the field-level inference code KARMMA to enable tomographic forward-modelling of shear maps. Our code assumes a lognormal prior on the convergence field, and properly accounts for the cross-covariance in the lensing signal across…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-11 Supranta S. Boruah , Pier Fiedorowicz , Eduardo Rozo

Strong gravitational lensing can reveal the influence of dark-matter substructure in galaxies, but analyzing these effects from noisy, low-resolution images poses a significant challenge. In this work, we propose a masked autoencoder (MAE)…