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We present a machine learning approach for estimating galaxy cluster masses, trained using both Chandra and eROSITA mock X-ray observations of 2,041 clusters from the Magneticum simulations. We train a random forest regressor, an ensemble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-14 Sheridan B. Green , Michelle Ntampaka , Daisuke Nagai , Lorenzo Lovisari , Klaus Dolag , Dominique Eckert , John A. ZuHone

We demonstrate the potential of Deep Learning methods for measurements of cosmological parameters from density fields, focusing on the extraction of non-Gaussian information. We consider weak lensing mass maps as our dataset. We aim for our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Jorit Schmelzle , Aurelien Lucchi , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Raphael Sgier , Alexandre Réfrégier , Thomas Hofmann

Galaxies grow and evolve in dark matter halos. Because dark matter is not visible, galaxies' halo masses ($\rm{M}_{\rm{halo}}$) must be inferred indirectly. We present a graph neural network (GNN) model for predicting $\rm{M}_{\rm{halo}}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-20 Nikhil Garuda , John F. Wu , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich

We apply two machine learning methods, a CNN deep-leaning model and a gradient-boosting decision tree, to estimate individual cluster optical depths from observed properties derived from multiple complementary datasets. The models are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 Yulin Gong , Rachel Bean

The use of galaxy clusters as cosmological probes hinges on our ability to measure their masses accurately and with high precision. Hydrostatic mass is one of the most common methods for estimating the masses of individual galaxy clusters,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-12 Kaylea Nelson , Erwin T. Lau , Daisuke Nagai , Douglas H. Rudd , Liang Yu

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation are an invaluable tool for understanding galaxy formation and its impact on cosmological parameter inference from large-scale structure. However, their high computational cost is a significant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-21 Alexandra Doytcheva , Filomela V. Gerou , Johannes U. Lange

The origin of the diverse population of galaxy clusters remains an unexplained aspect of large-scale structure formation and cluster evolution. We present a novel method of using X-ray images to identify cool core (CC), weak cool core…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Y. Su , Y. Zhang , G. Liang , J. A. ZuHone , D. J. Barnes , N. B. Jacobs , M. Ntampaka , W. R. Forman , P. E. J. Nulsen , R. P. Kraft , C. Jones

Galaxy cluster mass functions are a function of cosmology, but mass is not a direct observable, and systematic errors abound in all its observable proxies. Mass-free inference can bypass this challenge, but it requires large suites of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-19 Urmila Chadayammuri , Michelle Ntampaka , John ZuHone , Àkos Bogdàn , Ralph Kraft

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 apply a convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify and detect quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82 and also to predict the photometric redshifts of quasars. The network takes the variability of objects into account by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Johanna Pasquet-Itam , Jérôme Pasquet

Determining the dynamical mass profiles of dispersion-supported galaxies is particularly challenging due to projection effects and the unknown shape of their velocity anisotropy profile. Our goal is to develop a machine learning algorithm…

Recent efforts have shown machine learning to be useful for the prediction of nonlinear fluid dynamics. Predictive accuracy is often a central motivation for employing neural networks, but the pattern recognition central to the network…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-23 Shizheng Wen , Michael W. Lee , Kai M. Kruger Bastos , Earl H. Dowell

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

This work is focused on the morphological classification of galaxies following the Hubble sequence in which the different classes are arranged in a hierarchy. The proposed method, BCNN, is composed of two main modules. First, a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Jonathan Serrano-Pérez , Raquel Díaz Hernández , L. Enrique Sucar

We use the BAHAMAS and MACSIS hydrodynamic simulations to quantify the impact of baryons on the mass distribution and dynamics of massive galaxy clusters, as well as the bias in X-ray and weak lensing mass estimates. These simulations use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Monique A. Henson , David J. Barnes , Scott T. Kay , Ian G. McCarthy , Joop Schaye

Cosmological inference from cluster number counts is systematically limited by the accuracy of the mass calibration, i.e. the empirical determination of the mapping between cluster selection observables and halo mass. In this work we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-21 Sebastian Grandis , Sebastian Bocquet , Joseph J. Mohr , Matthias Klein , Klaus Dolag

Context.Identification of new star cluster candidates in M31 is fundamental for the study of the M31 stellar cluster system. The machine-learning method convolutional neural network (CNN) is an efficient algorithm for searching for new M31…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-15 Shoucheng Wang , Bingqiu Chen , Jun Ma , Qian Long , Haibo Yuan , Dezi Liu , Zhimin Zhou , Wei Liu , Jiamin Chen , Zizhao He

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

Context. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used for automated galaxy morphological classification in large surveys. However, projection effects, image artefacts, and intrinsic degeneracies limit reliable identification of…

We present visual-like morphologies over 16 photometric bands, from ultra-violet to near infrared, for 8,412 galaxies in the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) obtained by a convolutional neural network (CNN) model.…