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Tens of thousands of galaxy-galaxy strong lensing systems are expected to be discovered by the end of the decade. These will form a vast new dataset that can be used to probe subgalactic dark matter structures through its gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-31 Arthur Tsang , Atınç Çağan Şengül , Cora Dvorkin

Despite the Milky Way's proximity to us, our knowledge of its dark matter halo is fairly limited, and there is still considerable uncertainty in its halo mass. Many past techniques have been limited by assumptions such as the Galaxy being…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-09 Elaheh Hayati , Peter Behroozi , Ekta Patel

According to the now strongly supported concordance $\Lambda$CDM model, galaxies may be grossly described as a luminous component embedded in a dark matter halo. The density profile of these mass dominating haloes may be determined by N -…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-04 A. Del Popolo , V. F. Cardone

We use the calculations derived in a previous paper (M\'era, Chabrier and Schaeffer, 1997), based on observational constraints arising from star counts, microlensing experiments and kinematic properties, to determine the amount of dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Méra , G. Chabrier , R. Schaeffer

Multi-band images of galaxies reveal a huge amount of information about their morphology and structure. However, inferring properties of the underlying stellar populations such as age, metallicity or kinematics from those images is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-03 Tobias Buck , Steffen Wolf

We apply machine learning, a powerful method for uncovering complex correlations in high-dimensional data, to the galaxy-halo connection of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. The mapping between galaxy and halo variables is stochastic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-16 Richard Stiskalek , Deaglan J. Bartlett , Harry Desmond , Dhayaa Anbajagane

Astrometry -- the precise measurement of positions and motions of celestial objects -- has emerged as a promising avenue for characterizing the dark matter population in our Galaxy. By leveraging recent advances in simulation-based…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-06 Siddharth Mishra-Sharma

While dark matter (DM) makes up roughly 80% of the total matter in the Universe, its microscopic properties remain one of the biggest questions in Cosmology today. Fortunately, those properties dictate the distribution and form of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Michael N. Martinez

Galaxies reside within dark matter halos, but their properties are influenced not only by their halo properties but also by the surrounding environment. We construct an interpretable neural network framework to characterize the surrounding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-01 Shun-ya S. Uchida , Suchetha Cooray , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Peter Behroozi

We search for parameters defined from photometric images to quantify the ex situ stellar mass fraction of galaxies. We created mock images using galaxies in the cosmological hydrodynamical simulations TNG100, EAGLE, and TNG50 at redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-19 Runsheng Cai , Ling Zhu , Shiyin Shen , Wenting Wang , Annalisa Pillepich , Jesús Falcón-Barroso

Strong gravitational lensing offers a unique probe of dark matter (DM) on sub-galactic scales, where the abundance and distribution of low-mass halos are highly sensitive to the underlying properties of DM particles. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Andreas Filipp , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Daniel Gilman , LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Context:Halo formation time, which quantifies the mass assembly history of dark-matter halos, directly impacts galaxy properties and evolution. Although not directly observable, it can be inferred through proxies like star formation history…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-13 Atulit Srivastava , Weiguang Cui , Daniel de Andres , Jesse B. Golden-Marx , Elena Rasia , Ying Zu

Using data from TNG300-2, we train a neural network (NN) to recreate the stellar mass ($M^*$) and star formation rate (SFR) of central galaxies in a dark-matter-only simulation. We consider 12 input properties from the halo and sub-halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Cristian Hernández Cuevas , Roberto E. González , Nelson D. Padilla

The abundance of faint dwarf galaxies is determined by the underlying population of low-mass dark matter (DM) halos and the efficiency of galaxy formation in these systems. Here, we quantify potential galaxy formation and DM constraints…

There are two observations of galaxies that can offer some insight into the nature of the dark matter (DM), namely the rotation curves and the gravitational lensing. While the first one can be studied using the Newtonian limit, the second…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-21 Dario Nunez , Alma X. Gonzalez Morales , Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota , Tonatiuh Matos

We present mass models for the dark matter component of seven dwarf galaxies taken from "The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey" (THINGS) and compare these with those from numerical Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) simulations. The THINGS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Se-Heon Oh , W. J. G. de Blok , Elias Brinks , Fabian Walter , Robert C. Kennicutt

We extend a machine learning (ML) framework presented previously to model galaxy formation and evolution in a hierarchical universe using N-body + hydrodynamical simulations. In this work, we show that ML is a promising technique to study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 Harshil M. Kamdar , Matthew J. Turk , Robert J. Brunner

Measuring the density profile of dark matter in the Solar neighborhood has important implications for both dark matter theory and experiment. In this work, we apply autoregressive flows to stars from a realistic simulation of a Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-29 Matthew R Buckley , Sung Hak Lim , Eric Putney , David Shih

We investigate machine learning (ML) techniques for predicting the number of galaxies (N_gal) that occupy a halo, given the halo's properties. These types of mappings are crucial for constructing the mock galaxy catalogs necessary for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Xiaoying Xu , Shirley Ho , Hy Trac , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos , Michelle Ntampaka

The connection between galaxies and dark matter halos encompasses a range of processes and play a pivotal role in our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. Traditionally, this link has been established through physical or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Natália V. N. Rodrigues , Natalí S. M. de Santi , L. Raul Abramo , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta