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Cosmological simulations are a powerful tool to advance our understanding of galaxy formation and many simulations model key properties of real galaxies. A question that naturally arises for such simulations in light of high-quality…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-10 Lingyi Zhou , Stefan T. Radev , William H. Oliver , Aura Obreja , Zehao Jin , Tobias Buck

We present a proof-of-concept analysis of photometric redshifts with Bayesian priors on physical properties of galaxies. This concept is particularly suited for upcoming/on-going large imaging surveys, in which only several broad-band…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Masayuki Tanaka

Spectral analysis is a powerful tool to investigate stellar properties and it has been widely used for decades now. However, the methods considered to perform this kind of analysis are mostly based on iteration among a few diagnostic lines…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 J-M. Mugnes , C. Robert

We present a Bayesian-odds-ratio-based algorithm for detecting stellar flares in light curve data. We assume flares are described by a model in which there is a rapid rise with a half-Gaussian profile, followed by an exponential decay. Our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Pitkin , D. Williams , L. Fletcher , S. D. T. Grant

We use simulated galaxy observations from the NIHAO-SKIRT-Catalog to test the accuracy of Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) modeling techniques. SED modeling is an essential tool for inferring star-formation histories from nearby galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-01 Nicholas Faucher , Michael R. Blanton

Stellar models utilising one-dimensional (1D), heuristic theories of convection fail to adequately describe the energy transport in superadiabatic layers. The improper modelling leads to well-known discrepancies between observed and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Andreas Christ Sølvsten Jørgensen , George C. Angelou

The spectral energy distribution (SED) of observed stars in wide-field images is crucial for chromatic point spread function (PSF) modelling methods, which use unresolved stars as integrated spectral samples of the PSF across the field of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Ezequiel Centofanti , Samuel Farrens , Jean-Luc Starck , Tobias Liaudat , Alex Szapiro , Jennifer Pollack

To understand and interpret the observed Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) of starbursts, theoretical or semi-empirical SED models are necessary. Yet, while they are well-founded in theory, independent verification and calibration of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. R. Martínez-Galarza , B. Groves , B. Brandl , G. E. de Messieres , R. Indebetouw , M. A. Dopita

We look at the distribution of the Bayesian evidence for mock realizations of supernova and baryon acoustic oscillation data. The ratios of Bayesian evidences of different models are often used to perform model selection. The significance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Ryan E. Keeley , Arman Shafieloo

We examine star-formation and dust properties for a sample of 660 galaxies at $1.37\leq z\leq 2.61$ in the MOSDEF survey by dividing them into groups with similarly-shaped spectral energy distributions (SEDs). For each group, we combine the…

We present a Bayesian approach to modelling galaxy clusters using multi-frequency pointed observations from telescopes that exploit the Sunyaev--Zel'dovich effect. We use the recently developed MultiNest technique (Feroz, Hobson & Bridges,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-28 F. Feroz , M. P. Hobson , J. T. L. Zwart , R. D. E. Saunders , K. J. B. Grainge

Recent studies have shown that ensemble approaches could not only improve accuracy and but also estimate model uncertainty in deep learning. However, it requires a large number of parameters according to the increase of ensemble models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Hong Joo Lee , Seong Tae Kim , Hakmin Lee , Nassir Navab , Yong Man Ro

Asteroseismic observations are crucial to constrain stellar models with precision. Bayesian Estimation of STellar Parameters (BESTP) is a tool that utilizes Bayesian statistics and nested sampling Monte Carlo algorithm to search for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-24 Chen Jiang , Laurent Gizon

We present Starduster, a supervised deep learning model that predicts the multi-wavelength SED from galaxy geometry parameters and star formation history by emulating dust radiative transfer simulations. The model is comprised of three…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-18 Yisheng Qiu , Xi Kang

We study Bayesian estimation of finite mixture models in a general setup where the number of components is unknown and allowed to grow with the sample size. An assumption on growing number of components is a natural one as the degree of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Ilsang Ohn , Lizhen Lin

Reliable estimation of stellar surface gravity (log $g$) for a large sample is crucial for evaluating stellar evolution models and understanding galactic structure; However, it is not easy to accomplish due to the difficulty in gathering a…

In this paper, we outline the use of Mixture Models in density estimation of large astronomical databases. This method of density estimation has been known in Statistics for some time but has not been implemented because of the large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Connolly , C. Genovese , A. W. Moore , R. C. Nichol , J. Schneider , L. Wasserman

We have fit the far-ultraviolet (FUV) to mid-infrared (MIR) spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for several nearby galaxies ($<$ 20 Mpc). Global, radial, and local photometric measurements are explored to better understand how SED-derived…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-31 Madison V. Smith , L. van Zee , S. Salim , D. Dale , S. Staudaher , T. Wrock , A. Maben

This paper considers the problem of model selection within the context of finite element model updating. Given that a number of FEM updating models, with different updating parameters, can be designed, this paper proposes using the Bayesian…

Computation · Statistics 2008-10-16 Linda Mthembu , Tshilidzi Marwala , Michael I. Friswell , Sondipon Adhikari

For several decades now, Bayesian inference techniques have been applied to theories of particle physics, cosmology and astrophysics to obtain the probability density functions of their free parameters. In this study, we review and compare…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Joshua Albert , Csaba Balazs , Andrew Fowlie , Will Handley , Nicholas Hunt-Smith , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Martin White