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Context. The intracluster light (ICL) comprises stars that are not bound to individual galaxies within a galaxy cluster, and it provides insights into the cluster mass distribution, evolutionary history, and dynamical state. Aims. We study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-27 Isaac Alonso Asensio , Ana Contreras-Santos

In-Context Learning (ICL) empowers Large Language Models (LLMs) with the ability to learn from a few examples provided in the prompt, enabling downstream generalization without the requirement for gradient updates. Despite encouragingly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Haitao Mao , Guangliang Liu , Yao Ma , Rongrong Wang , Kristen Johnson , Jiliang Tang

In this paper we study the applicability of a set of supervised machine learning (ML) models specifically trained to infer observed related properties of the baryonic component (stars and gas) from a set of features of dark matter only…

Clustering is one of the most fundamental tasks in machine learning. Recently, deep clustering has become a major trend in clustering techniques. Representation learning often plays an important role in the effectiveness of deep clustering,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Yaling Tao , Kentaro Takagi , Kouta Nakata

In this paper we address imbalanced binary classification (IBC) tasks. Applying resampling strategies to balance the class distribution of training instances is a common approach to tackle these problems. Many state-of-the-art methods find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Vitor Cerqueira , Luis Torgo , Paula Branco , Colin Bellinger

We investigate the intra-cluster light (ICL) in the 6 Hubble Frontier Field clusters at $0.3<z<0.6$. We employ a new method, which is free from any functional form of the ICL profile, and exploit the unprecedented depth of this Hubble Space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-20 Takahiro Morishita , Louis E. Abramson , Tommaso Treu , Kasper B. Schmidt , Benedetta Vulcani , Xin Wang

The evolutionary classification of molecular clumps, crucial for understanding star formation, is commonly based on human-assigned categories derived from infrared (IR) emission and well-established morphological criteria. However, due to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-27 K. V. Plakitina , M. S. Kirsanova , A. B. Ostrovskii , A. D. Gimalieva , S. V. Salii , A. V. Meshcheryakov

The alignment between brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) and host clusters can reveal the mystery of formation and evolution for galaxy clusters. We measure cluster orientations in optical based on the projected distribution of member…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-29 Z. S. Yuan , Z. L. Wen

The bright central galaxies (BCGs) dominate the inner portion of the diffuse cluster light, but it is still unclear where the intracluster light (ICL) takes over. To investigate the BCG-ICL transition, we stack the images of ${\sim}3000$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 Xiaokai Chen , Ying Zu , Zhiwei Shao , Huanyuan Shan

We train three convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to classify galaxies with Galaxy Zoo 2 dataset and extract the activations from the last fully connected layer or the last average pooling layer of CNNs to study the high-dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-17 Jia-Ming Dai , Jizhou Tong

Cosmological (LCDM) TreeSPH simulations of galaxy clusters have been performed, invoking star-formation, chemical evolution with non-instantaneous recycling, metal dependent radiative cooling, strong star-burst and/or AGN driven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Sommer-Larsen , A. D. Romeo , L. Portinari

As machine learning models are increasingly deployed in sensitive application areas, the demand for interpretable and trustworthy decision-making has increased. Random Forests (RF), despite their widespread use and strong performance on…

Recent hydrodynamic cosmological simulations cover volumes up to Gpc^3 and resolve halos across a wide range of masses and environments, from massive galaxy clusters down to normal galaxies, while following a large variety of physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-11 Rhea-Silvia Remus , Klaus Dolag , Tadziu L. Hoffmann

We propose a random forest (RF) machine learning approach to determine the accreted stellar mass fractions ($f_\mathrm{acc}$) of central galaxies, based on various dark matter halo and galaxy features. The RF is trained and tested using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-14 Rui Shi , Wenting Wang , Zhaozhou Li , Jiaxin Han , Jingjing Shi , Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez , Yingjie Peng , Qingyang Li

Despite significant advances in clustering methods in recent years, the outcome of clustering of a natural image dataset is still unsatisfactory due to two important drawbacks. Firstly, clustering of images needs a good feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Dipanjan Das , Ratul Ghosh , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Our current knowledge of the thermodynamic properties of galaxy clusters comes primarily from detailed studies of clusters selected by their minority components: hot baryons. Most of these studies select the clusters using the component…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-15 S. Andreon , M. Radovich , A. Moretti , F. -X. Desert , T. Hamana , M. Pizzardo , C. Romero , H. Roussel , G. Trinchieri

Compact stellar systems such as Ultra-compact dwarfs (UCDs) and Globular Clusters (GCs) around galaxies are known to be the tracers of the merger events that have been forming these galaxies. Therefore, identifying such systems allows to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-10 Mohammad Mohammadi , Jarvin Mutatiina , Teymoor Saifollahi , Kerstin Bunte

We analyzed the contribution of the intracluster light (ICL) to the total luminosity of two massive galaxy clusters observed by the Hubble Space Telescope within the Frontier Fields program, Abell 370 (z ~ 0.375) and Abell S1063 (z ~…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-18 Nícolas O. L. de Oliveira , Yolanda Jiménez-Teja , Renato Dupke

We present a set-based machine learning framework that infers posterior distributions of galaxy cluster masses from projected galaxy dynamics. Our model combines Deep Sets and conditional normalizing flows to incorporate both positional and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Bonny Y. Wang , Leander Thiele

In modern astrophysics, the machine learning has increasingly gained more popularity with its incredibly powerful ability to make predictions or calculated suggestions for large amounts of data. We describe an application of the supervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-26 Yu Bai , JiFeng Liu , Song Wang , Fan Yang