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Cluster of microcalcifications can be an early sign of breast cancer. In this paper we propose a novel approach based on convolutional neural networks for the detection and segmentation of microcalcification clusters. In this work we used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Gabriele Valvano , Gianmarco Santini , Nicola Martini , Andrea Ripoli , Chiara Iacconi , Dante Chiappino , Daniele Della Latta

We study dynamical mass measurements of galaxy clusters contaminated by interlopers and show that a modern machine learning (ML) algorithm can predict masses by better than a factor of two compared to a standard scaling relation approach.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 M. Ntampaka , H. Trac , D. J. Sutherland , S. Fromenteau , B. Poczos , J. Schneider

Galaxy clusters offer powerful insights into the large-scale structure of the Universe and the physics of baryons in hot state. Their scientific exploitation, however, hinges on our ability to accurately measure key thermodynamic…

We perform an ensemble of $N$-body simulations with $2048^3$ particles for 101 flat $w$CDM cosmological models sampled based on a maximin-distance Sliced Latin Hypercube Design. By using the halo catalogs extracted at multiple redshifts in…

We investigate whether combining gas and stellar kinematic maps provides measurable advantages in recovering galaxy mass profiles, compared to using single-component maps alone. While traditional methods struggle to integrate multi-tracer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-23 Julen Expósito-Márquez , Arianna Di Cintio , Chris Brook , Jorge Sarrato-Alós , Andrea V. Macciò

Knowledge of the mass composition of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays is crucial to understanding their origins; however, current approaches have limited event-by-event resolution. With fluorescence telescope measurements of the longitudinal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-10 Zhuoyi Wang , Eric Mayotte , Sonja Mayotte , Nathan Woo , Julia Burton-Heibges , Nicolas San Martin , Cailyn Smith

We test the concordance LCDM cosmology by comparing predictions for the mean properties of galaxy clusters to observations. We use high-resolution N-body simulations of cosmic structure formation and semi-analytic models of galaxy formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Stefan Hilbert , Simon D. M. White

Weak gravitational lensing has been used extensively in the past decade to constrain the masses of galaxy clusters, and is the most promising observational technique for providing the mass calibration necessary for precision cosmology with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rachel Mandelbaum , Uros Seljak , Tobias Baldauf , Robert E. Smith

Contamination from galaxy fragments, identified as sources, is a major issue in large photometric galaxy catalogs. In this paper, we prove that this problem can be easily addressed with computer vision techniques. We use image cutouts to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-01 Enrico M. Di Teodoro , Josh E. G. Peek , John F. Wu

We present a large X-ray selected serendipitous cluster survey based on a novel joint analysis of archival Chandra and XMM-Newton data. The survey provides enough depth to reach clusters of flux of $\approx 10^{-14} {ergs} {cm}^{-2}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 J. R. Peterson , J. G. Jernigan , R. R. Gupta , J. Bankert , S. M. Kahn

Mergers are an important aspect of galaxy formation and evolution. We aim to test whether deep learning techniques can be used to reproduce visual classification of observations, physical classification of simulations and highlight any…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-12 W. J. Pearson , L. Wang , J. W. Trayford , C. E. Petrillo , F. F. S. van der Tak

Understanding the halo-galaxy connection is fundamental in order to improve our knowledge on the nature and properties of dark matter. In this work we build a model that infers the mass of a halo given the positions, velocities, stellar…

Galaxy mergers are crucial for understanding galaxy evolution, and with large upcoming datasets, automated methods such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are essential for efficient detection. It is understood that CNNs classify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-17 D. M. Chudy , W. J. Pearson , A. Pollo , L. E. Suelves , B. Margalef-Bentabol , L. Wang , V. Rodriguez-Gomez , A. La Marca

The physical properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) reflect signatures of the underlying gravitational potential, mergers and strong interactions with other halos and satellite galaxies, as well as galactic feedback from supernovae and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-27 Urmila Chadayammuri , Lukas Eisert , Annalisa Pillepich , Katrin Lehle , Mohammadreza Ayromlou , Dylan Nelson

Semi-analytic models are a widely used approach to simulate galaxy properties within a cosmological framework, relying on simplified yet physically motivated prescriptions. They have also proven to be an efficient alternative for generating…

Based on the DUSTGRAIN-pathfinder suite of simulations, we investigate observational degeneracies between nine models of modified gravity and massive neutrinos. Three types of machine learning techniques are tested for their ability to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Julian Merten , Carlo Giocoli , Marco Baldi , Massimo Meneghetti , Austin Peel , Florian Lalande , Jean-Luc Starck , Valeria Pettorino

Ram pressure stripping (RPS) of gas from disk galaxies has long been considered to play vital roles in galaxy evolution within groups and clusters. For a given density of intracluster medium (ICM) and a given velocity of a disk galaxy, RPS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-21 Kenji Bekki

A galaxy cluster as the most massive gravitationally-bound object in the Universe, is dominated by Dark Matter, which unfortunately can only be investigated through its interaction with the luminous baryons with some simplified assumptions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Daniel de Andres , Weiguang Cui , Gustavo Yepes , Marco De Petris , Antonio Ferragamo , Federico De Luca , Gianmarco Aversano , Douglas Rennehan

We explore the capability of deep learning to classify cosmic structures. In cosmological simulations, cosmic volumes are segmented into voids, sheets, filaments and knots, according to the distribution and kinematics of dark matter (DM),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Shigeki Inoue , Xiaotian Si , Takashi Okamoto , Moka Nishigaki

We examine the systematics affecting the X-ray mass estimators applied to a set of five simulated galaxy clusters. They have been processed through the X-ray Map Simulator, X-MAS, to provide Chandra-like long exposures that are analyzed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Rasia , S. Ettori , L. Moscardini , P. Mazzotta , S. Borgani , K. Dolag , G. Tormen , L. M. Cheng , A. Diaferio