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The Probabilistic Value-Added Bright Galaxy Survey (PROVABGS) catalog will provide the posterior distributions of physical properties of $>10$ million DESI Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) galaxies. Each posterior distribution will be inferred…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-27 K. J. Kwon , ChangHoon Hahn , Justin Alsing

Models of Stellar Population Synthesis (SPS) provide a predictive framework for the spectral energy distribution (SED) of a galaxy. SPS predictions can be computationally intensive, creating a bottleneck for attempts to infer the physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-03 Georgios Zacharegkas , Andrew Hearin , Andrew Benson

Inference of the physical properties of stellar populations from observed photometry and spectroscopy is a key goal in the study of galaxy evolution. In recent years the quality and quantity of the available data has increased, and there…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Benjamin D. Johnson , Joel Leja , Charlie Conroy , Joshua S. Speagle

Models of stellar population synthesis (SPS) are the fundamental tool that relates the physical properties of a galaxy to its spectral energy distribution (SED). In this paper, we present DSPS: a python package for stellar population…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-20 Andrew P. Hearin , Jonás Chaves-Montero , Alex Alarcon , Matthew R. Becker , Andrew Benson

For the next generation of spectroscopic galaxy surveys, it is important to forecast their performances and to accurately interpret their large data sets. For this purpose, it is necessary to consistently simulate different populations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 Martina Fagioli , Luca Tortorelli , Jörg Herbel , Dominik Zürcher , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara

We develop a set of machine-learning based cosmological emulators, to obtain fast model predictions for the $C(\ell)$ angular power spectrum coefficients characterising tomographic observations of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-30 Marco Bonici , Luca Biggio , Carmelita Carbone , Luigi Guzzo

We present an efficient Bayesian method for estimating individual photometric redshifts and galaxy properties under a pre-trained population model (pop-cosmos) that was calibrated using purely photometric data. This model specifies a prior…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Stephen Thorp , Justin Alsing , Hiranya V. Peiris , Sinan Deger , Daniel J. Mortlock , Boris Leistedt , Joel Leja , Arthur Loureiro

Artificial neural network emulators have been demonstrated to be a very computationally efficient method to rapidly generate galaxy spectral energy distributions (SEDs), for parameter inference or otherwise. Using a highly flexible and fast…

Stellar population synthesis (SPS) models are invaluable to study star clusters and galaxies. They provide means to extract stellar masses, stellar ages, star formation histories, chemical enrichment and dust content of galaxies from their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Paula R. T. Coelho , Gustavo Bruzual , Stephane Charlot

Over the last decades, evolutionary population synthesis models have powered an unmatched leap forward in our understanding of galaxies. From dating the age of the first galaxies in the Universe to detailed measurements of the chemical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-13 I. Martín-Navarro , A. Vazdekis

We have developed a method for fast and accurate stellar population parameters determination in order to apply it to high resolution galaxy spectra. The method is based on an optimization technique that combines active learning with an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Thamar Solorio , Olac Fuentes , Roberto Terlevich , Elena Terlevich

Next generation photometric and spectroscopic surveys will enable unprecedented tests of the concordance cosmological model and of galaxy formation and evolution. Fully exploiting their potential requires a precise understanding of the…

Knowledge about the internal physical structure of stars is crucial to understanding their evolution. The novel binary population synthesis code POSYDON includes a module for interpolating the stellar and binary properties of any system at…

Owing to recent advances in radial-velocity instrumentation and observation techniques, the detection of Earth-mass planets around Sun-like stars may soon be primarily limited by intrinsic stellar variability. Several processes contribute…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Michael L. Palumbo , Eric B. Ford , Jason T. Wright , Suvrath Mahadevan , Alexander W. Wise , Johannes Löhner-Böttcher

Accurate estimates of fundamental physical properties of galaxies, such as star formation rates (SFRs) or stellar masses, are essential for testing and constraining models of galaxy formation and evolution. Spectral energy distribution…

With the advent of billion-galaxy surveys with complex data, the need of the hour is to efficiently model galaxy spectral energy distributions (SEDs) with robust uncertainty quantification. The combination of Simulation-Based inference…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-18 Gourav Khullar , Brian Nord , Aleksandra Ciprijanovic , Jason Poh , Fei Xu

We applied machine learning to the entire data history of ESO's High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument. Our primary goal was to recover the physical properties of the observed objects, with a secondary emphasis on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Vojtěch Cvrček , Martino Romaniello , Radim Šára , Wolfram Freudling , Pascal Ballester

We present neural networks to generate redshift-space galaxy power spectrum multipoles for multiple tracer and redshift bins simultaneously given a set of input cosmology and galaxy bias parameters. This emulator utilizes a combination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 Joseph Adamo , Grace Gibbins , Anne Moore , Tim Eifler

Stellar population synthesis (SPS) models are a key tool for deriving the age, metallicity, radial velocity and reddening of star clusters from their integrated spectra. Using a sample of 129 star clusters with high-quality spectra, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-07 Randa Asad , Paula R. T. Coelho , Johina M. John , Igor Chilingarian , Gustavo Bruzual , Stephane Charlot

In this work, we develop a simulation-based model to predict the density split (DSS) and second-order shear and clustering statistics. A simulation-based model has the potential to model highly non-linear scales where current DSS models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 Pierre A. Burger , Enrique Paillas , Michael J. Hudson
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