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Context. Most of the modelling of interstellar dust infrared emission spectrum is done by assuming some variations around a single temperature greybody approximation. For example, the foreground modelling of Planck mission maps involves a…

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We compare the performance of several dust models in reproducing the dust spectral energy distribution (SED) per unit extinction in the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM). We use our results to constrain the variability of the optical…

Aerosol-cloud--radiation interactions remain among the most uncertain components of the Earth's climate system, in partdue to the high dimensionality of aerosol state representations and the difficulty of obtaining complete \textit{in situ}…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Ehsan Saleh , Saba Ghaffari , Jeffrey H. Curtis , Lekha Patel , Peter A. Bosler , Nicole Riemer , Matthew West

Observations of the CMB can be contaminated by diffuse foreground emission from sources such as Galactic dust and synchrotron radiation. In these cases, the morphology of the contaminating source is known from observations at different…

Our ability to correct the observational photometry of galaxies depends upon our knowledge of the attenuation of light produced by the dust contained in the interstellar medium. We will present a model based on the statistical properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joerg Fischera

In modern cosmology, many efforts have been put to detect primordial B-mode of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization from the gravitational waves generated during inflation. Considering the foreground dust contamination of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 Zekun Lu , A. Lazarian , Dmitri Pogosyan

As a widely recognized approach to deep generative modeling, Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) still face challenges with the quality of generated images, often presenting noticeable blurriness. This issue stems from the unrealistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Georgios Batzolis , Jan Stanczuk , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We introduce a novel approach to modelling the nebular emission from star-forming galaxies by combining the contributions from many HII regions incorporating loose trends in physical properties, random dust attenuation, a predefined Halpha…

Thermal dust is the major polarized foreground hindering the detection of primordial cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-modes. Its signal exhibits complex behavior in frequency space, arising from the combined variation in our Galaxy of…

Interstellar dust corrupts nearly every stellar observation, and accounting for it is crucial to measuring physical properties of stars. We model the dust distribution as a spatially varying latent field with a Gaussian process (GP) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-15 Andrew C. Miller , Lauren Anderson , Boris Leistedt , John P. Cunningham , David W. Hogg , David M. Blei

We introduce a novel variational autoencoder (VAE) architecture that can generate realistic and diverse high energy physics events. The model we propose utilizes several techniques from VAE literature in order to simulate high fidelity jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-11 Kosei Dohi

We present a new approach based on Supervised Machine Learning (SML) algorithms to infer key physical properties of galaxies (density, metallicity, column density and ionization parameter) from their emission line spectra. We introduce a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 Graziano Ucci , Andrea Ferrara , Simona Gallerani , Andrea Pallottini

We present a method for accurately and precisely inferring photometric dust extinction towards stars at mid-to-high Galactic latitudes using probabilistic machine learning to model the colour-magnitude distribution of zero-extinction stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-15 Matthew O'Callaghan , Kaisey S. Mandel , Gerry Gilmore

Line intensity mapping is emerging as a novel method that can measure the collective intensity fluctuations of atomic/molecular line emission from distant galaxies. Several observational programs with various wavelengths are ongoing and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-15 Kana Moriwaki , Naoki Yoshida

The study of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the X-rays has entered a golden age with the advent of the X-ray observatories XMM-Newton and Chandra. High-energy resolution allowed to study dust spectroscopic features with unprecedented…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Elisa Costantini , Lia Corrales

The primary source of systematic uncertainty in the quest for the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) introduced by primordial gravitational waves is polarized thermal emission from Galactic dust. Therefore,…

Magnetic fields (B-fields) are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium (ISM), and they play an essential role in the formation of molecular clouds and subsequent star formation. However, B-fields in interstellar environments remain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-18 Archana Soam , Ka Ho Yuen , Ian Stephens , Chi Yan Law , Ka Wai Ho , Simon Coudé

Dust polarisation observations at optical wavelengths help understand the dust grain properties and trace the plane-of-the-sky component of the magnetic field. In this study, we make use of published optical polarisation data acquired with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-02 N. Bijas , Chakali Eswaraiah , Panigrahy Sandhyarani , Jessy Jose , Maheswar Gopinathan

We introduce a deep learning method to simulate the motion of particles trapped in a chaotic recirculating flame. The Lagrangian trajectories of particles, captured using a high-speed camera and subsequently reconstructed in 3-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-13 Pai Liu , Jingwei Gan , Rajan K. Chakrabarty

Galactic interstellar dust has a profound impact not only on our observations of objects throughout the Universe, but also on the morphology, star formation, and chemical evolution of the Galaxy. The advent of massive imaging and…