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Strong-lensing images provide a wealth of information both about the magnified source and about the dark matter distribution in the lens. Precision analyses of these images can be used to constrain the nature of dark matter. However, this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Konstantin Karchev , Adam Coogan , Christoph Weniger

We present our results from training and evaluating a convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict galaxy shapes from wide-field survey images of the first data release of the Dark Energy Survey (DES DR1). We use conventional shape…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Dezső Ribli , László Dobos , István Csabai

Deep distance metric learning (DDML), which is proposed to learn image similarity metrics in an end-to-end manner based on the convolution neural network, has achieved encouraging results in many computer vision tasks.$L2$-normalization in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Xuefei Zhe , Shifeng Chen , Hong Yan

Upcoming stage-IV surveys such as Euclid and Rubin will deliver vast amounts of high-precision data, opening new opportunities to constrain cosmological models with unprecedented accuracy. A key step in this process is the reconstruction of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Hubert Leterme , Andreas Tersenov , Jalal Fadili , Jean-Luc Starck

Weak lensing maps contain information beyond two-point statistics on small scales. Much recent work has tried to extract this information through a range of different observables or via nonlinear transformations of the lensing field. Here…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Arushi Gupta , José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla , Daniel Hsu , Zoltán Haiman

Enhanced modeling of microlensing variations in light curves of strongly lensed quasars improves measurements of cosmological time delays, the Hubble Constant, and quasar structure. Traditional methods for modeling extra-galactic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-03 Somayeh Khakpash , Federica Bianco , Georgios Vernardos , Gregory Dobler , Charles Keeton

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are powerful algorithms that have been proven capable of extracting non-Gaussian information from weak lensing (WL) data sets. Understanding which features in the data determine the output of these nested,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla , Manasi Sharma , Daniel Hsu , Zoltán Haiman

Algorithms for Magnetic Resonance (MR) image reconstruction from undersampled measurements exploit prior information to compensate for missing k-space data. Deep learning (DL) provides a powerful framework for extracting such information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Kerem C. Tezcan , Christian F. Baumgartner , Roger Luechinger , Klaas P. Pruessmann , Ender Konukoglu

Weak lensing provides a direct measure of the distribution of mass in the universe, and is therefore a uniquely powerful probe of dark matter. Weak lensing can also be used to measure the twin phenomenon of dark energy, via its effect upon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Massey , Alexandre Refregier , Jason Rhodes

We assess a neural network (NN) method for reconstructing 3D cosmological density and velocity fields (target) from discrete and incomplete galaxy distributions (input). We employ second-order Lagrangian Perturbation Theory to generate a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-02 Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Robert Lilow , Adi Nusser

Deep Learning (DL) based Compressed Sensing (CS) has been applied for better performance of image reconstruction than traditional CS methods. However, most existing DL methods utilize the block-by-block measurement and each measurement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-29 Zhifeng Wang , Zhenghui Wang , Chunyan Zeng , Yan Yu , Xiangkui Wan

We present a novel method for reconstructing weak lensing mass or convergence maps as a probe to study non-Gaussianities in the cosmic density field. While previous surveys have relied on a flat-sky approximation, the forthcoming stage IV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-03 Vanshika Kansal

Understanding the nature of dark matter in the Universe is an important goal of modern cosmology. A key method for probing this distribution is via weak gravitational lensing mass-mapping - a challenging ill-posed inverse problem where one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Jessica J. Whitney , Tobías I. Liaudat , Matthew A. Price , Matthijs Mars , Jason D. McEwen

We present HEALFormer, a transformer-based neural network architecture for weak gravitational lensing mass mapping that reconstructs convergence maps from incomplete and noisy shear observations on the celestial sphere. The model operates…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Yihe Wang , Yu Yu

We present a new method by which the total masses of galaxies including dark matter can be estimated from the kinematics of their globular cluster systems (GCSs). In the proposed method, we apply the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Rajvir Kaur , Kenji Bekki , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Amitava Datta

We show how a neural network can be trained to Wiener filter masked CMB maps to high accuracy. We propose an innovative neural network architecture, the WienerNet, which guarantees linearity in the data map. Our method does not require…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-16 Moritz Münchmeyer , Kendrick M. Smith

Weak lensing by large-scale structure is a powerful technique to probe the dark components of the universe. To understand the measurement process of weak lensing and the associated systematic effects, image simulations are becoming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Claudio Bruderer , Chihway Chang , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Joel Berge , Lukas Gamper

We study the prospects for three-dimensional mapping of the dark matter to high redshift through the shearing of faint galaxies images at multiple distances by gravitational lensing. Such maps could provide invaluable information on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-12 Wayne Hu , Charles R. Keeton

Galaxy clusters are the most massive gravitationally bound structures in the Universe and key probes of cosmic evolution. The large data volume expected from upcoming surveys requires efficient automated analysis methods for tens of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 M. Fogliardi , M. Meneghetti , C. Giocoli , L. Moscardini , P. Rosati , L. Leuzzi , G. Angora , L. Bazzanini , C. Spinelli

In this paper, we compare three methods to reconstruct galaxy cluster density fields with weak lensing data. The first method called FLens integrates an inpainting concept to invert the shear field with possible gaps, and a multi-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Eric Jullo , Sandrine Pires , Mathilde Jauzac , Jean-Paul Kneib