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Despite their successes in the field of self-learning AI, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) suffer from having too many trainable parameters, impacting computational performance. Several approaches have been proposed to reduce the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Sebastiaan Koning , Caspar Greeven , Eric Postma

We report an investigation of cosmological parameters based on the measurements of anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) made by ACBAR. We use the ACBAR data in concert with other recent CMB measurements to derive…

Component separation is the process with which emission sources in astrophysical maps are generally extracted by taking multi-frequency information into account. It is crucial to develop more reliable methods for component separation for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 J. M. Casas , L. Bonavera , J. González-Nuevo , C. Baccigalupi , M. M. Cueli , D. Crespo , E. Goitia , J. D. Santos , M. L. Sánchez , F. J. de Cos

The massive use of artificial neural networks (ANNs), increasingly popular in many areas of scientific computing, rapidly increases the energy consumption of modern high-performance computing systems. An appealing and possibly more…

We apply and compare various Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and other algorithms for automatic morphological classification of galaxies. The ANNs are presented here mathematically, as non-linear extensions of conventional statistical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 O. Lahav , A. Naim , L. Sodre , M. C. Storrie-Lombardi

Detection of the \hi~ 21-cm power spectrum is one of the key science drivers of several ongoing and upcoming low-frequency radio interferometers. However, the major challenge in such observations come from bright foregrounds, whose accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-29 Madhurima Choudhury , Abhirup Datta , Suman Majumdar

We assess the accuracy with which future galaxy surveys can measure cosmological parameters by deriving a handy approximation that we validate numerically. We find that galaxy surveys are quite complementary to future Cosmic Microwave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark

Extracting cosmological information from microwave sky observations requires accurate estimation of the underlying Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) by removing foreground contamination, instrumental noise, and the effects of beam…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Obasho M , Shambhavi Jaiswal , Santanu Das , Krishna Mohan Parattu

We propose an efficient Bayesian MCMC algorithm for estimating cosmological parameters from CMB data without use of likelihood approximations. It builds on a previously developed Gibbs sampling framework that allows for exploration of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-29 Benjamin Racine , Jeffrey B. Jewell , Hans Kristian K. Eriksen , Ingunn K. Wehus

We present a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)-based parameter estimation package, CosmoReionMC, to jointly constrain cosmological parameters of the $\Lambda$CDM model and the astrophysical parameters related to hydrogen reionization. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Atrideb Chatterjee , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Sourav Mitra

Bayesian statistics and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms have found their place in the field of Cosmology. They have become important mathematical and numerical tools, especially in parameter estimation and model comparison. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-02 Luis E. Padilla , Luis O. Tellez , Luis A. Escamilla , J. Alberto Vazquez

Focusing on the well motivated aperture mass statistics $\Map$, we study the possibility of constraining cosmological parameters using future space based SNAP class weak lensing missions. Using completely analytical results we construct the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dipak Munshi , Patrick Valageas

I will briefly present my work on cosmological parameters estimation. Classical methods for parameters estimation involve the exploration of the parameter space on a precalculated grid of cosmological models. Here we try to estimate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephane Bargot

I develop a method for assessing the ability of an instrument, coupled with an observing strategy, to measure the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It allows for efficient calculation of expected parameter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Lloyd Knox

Deep learning has emerged as a transformative methodology in modern cosmology, providing powerful tools to extract meaningful physical information from complex astronomical datasets. This paper implements a novel Bayesian graph deep…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Juan Alejandro Pinto Castro , Héctor J. Hortúa , Jorge Enrique García-Farieta , Roger Anderson Hurtado

In this work, we reconstruct the Hubble diagram using various data sets, including correlated ones, in Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). Using ReFANN, that was built for data sets with independent uncertainties, we expand it to include…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Konstantinos F. Dialektopoulos , Purba Mukherjee , Jackson Levi Said , Jurgen Mifsud

In this paper we study the sensitivity of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) project to the determination of cosmological parameters, employing the Monte Carlo Markov Chains (MCMC) method. For comparison,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 Hong Li , Jun-Qing Xia , Zuhui Fan , Xinmin Zhang

Detection of redshifted \ion{H}{i} 21-cm emission is a potential probe for investigating the Universe's first billion years. However, given the significantly brighter foreground, detecting 21-cm is observationally difficult. The Earth's…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 Anshuman Tripathi , Abhirup Datta , Madhurima Choudhury , Suman Majumdar

Markov-chain Monte Carlo sampling has become a standard technique for exploring the posterior distribution of cosmological parameters constrained by observations of CMB anisotropies. Given an infinite amount of time, any MCMC sampler will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anze Slosar , Michael Hobson

Dark matter cannot be observed directly, but its weak gravitational lensing slightly distorts the apparent shapes of background galaxies, making weak lensing one of the most promising probes of cosmology. Several observational studies have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-18 Dezső Ribli , Bálint Ármin Pataki , István Csabai