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The ability to obtain reliable point estimates of model parameters is of crucial importance in many fields of physics. This is often a difficult task given that the observed data can have a very high number of dimensions. In order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Janis Fluri , Aurelien Lucchi , Tomasz Kacprzak , Alexandre Refregier , Thomas Hofmann

In recent years, deep learning approaches have achieved state-of-the-art results in the analysis of point cloud data. In cosmology, galaxy redshift surveys resemble such a permutation invariant collection of positions in space. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Sotiris Anagnostidis , Arne Thomsen , Tomasz Kacprzak , Tilman Tröster , Luca Biggio , Alexandre Refregier , Thomas Hofmann

This paper is aimed at developing a better understanding of the structure of the information that in contained in galaxy surveys, so as to find optimal ways to combine observables from such surveys. We first show how Jaynes' Maximal Entropy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Julien Carron , Adam Amara , Simon Lilly

The simplest scheme for predicting real galaxy properties after performing a dark matter simulation is to rank order the real systems by stellar mass and the simulated systems by halo mass and then simply assume monotonicity - that the more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-22 Stephanie Tonnesen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Modern galaxy surveys demand extensive survey volumes and resolutions surpassing current dark matter-only simulations' capabilities. To address this, many methods employ effective bias models on the dark matter field to approximate object…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 Daniel Forero-Sánchez , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Francesco Sinigaglia , Jose María Coloma-Nadal , Jean-Paul Kneib

The prospect of nonparametric reconstructions of cosmological parameters from observational data sets has been a popular topic in the literature for a number of years. This has mainly taken the form of a technique based on Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-24 Konstantinos Dialektopoulos , Jackson Levi Said , Jurgen Mifsud , Joseph Sultana , Kristian Zarb Adami

Cosmological constraints on neutrino mass offer a promising avenue for advancing our understanding of both fundamental particle physics and the evolution of cosmic large-scale structure. To overcome challenges associated with traditional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Jiaqi Wang , Willem Elbers , Carlos S. Frenk , Shaun Cole , Xiaohu Yang , Ian G. McCarthy , Rien van de Weygaert

Most cosmic shear analyses to date have relied on summary statistics (e.g. $\xi_+$ and $\xi_-$). These types of analyses are necessarily sub-optimal, as the use of summary statistics is lossy. In this paper, we forward-model the convergence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-29 Supranta Sarma Boruah , Eduardo Rozo , Pier Fiedorowicz

This paper presents a systematic literature review focusing on the application of machine learning techniques for deriving observational constraints in cosmology. The goal is to evaluate and synthesize existing research to identify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Luis Rojas , Sebastián Espinoza , Esteban González , Carlos Maldonado , Fei Luo

Extracting accurate cosmological information from galaxy-galaxy and galaxy-matter correlation functions on non-linear scales ($\lesssim 10 h^{-1} \mathrm{Mpc}$) requires cosmological simulations. Additionally, one has to marginalise over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Johannes U. Lange , Frank C. van den Bosch , Andrew R. Zentner , Kuan Wang , Andrew P. Hearin , Hong Guo

Forecasting cosmological constraints from halo-based statistics often suffers from instability in derivative estimates, especially when the number of simulations is limited. This instability reduces the reliability of Fisher forecasts and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 Saee Dhawalikar , Aseem Paranjape , Shadab Alam

In this work we provide a new technique to design fast approximation algorithms for graph problems where the points of the graph lie in a metric space. Specifically, we present a sampling approach for such metric graphs that, using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Hossein Esfandiari , Michael Mitzenmacher

We infer gravitational lensing shear and convergence fields from galaxy ellipticity catalogs under a spatial process prior for the lensing potential. We demonstrate the performance of our algorithm with simulated Gaussian-distributed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Michael D. Schneider , Karen Y. Ng , William A. Dawson , Philip J. Marshall , Joshua Meyers , Deborah J. Bard

We present a new technique for creating mock catalogues of the individual stars that make up the accreted component of stellar haloes in cosmological simulations and show how the catalogues can be used to test and interpret observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-27 Ben Lowing , Wenting Wang , Andrew Cooper , Rachel Kennedy , John Helly , Carlos Frenk , Shaun Cole

Forthcoming large galaxy cluster surveys will yield tight constraints on cosmological models. It has been shown that in an idealized survey, containing > 10,000 clusters, statistical errors on dark energy and other cosmological parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joshua D. Younger , Zoltan Haiman , Greg L. Bryan , Sheng Wang

Precise determination of galaxy cluster masses is crucial for establishing reliable mass-observable scaling relations in cluster cosmology. We employ graph neural networks (GNNs) to estimate galaxy cluster masses from radially sampled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Asif Iqbal , Subhabrata Majumdar , Elena Rasia , Gabriel W. Pratt , Daniel de Andres , Jean-Baptiste Melin , Weiguang Cui

Cosmic crystallography is based on the principle that peaks in the pair separation histogram (PSH) of objects in a catalogue should be induced by the high number of topologically lensed pairs that are separated by Clifford translations, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Andrzej Marecki , Boudewijn F. Roukema , Stanislaw Bajtlik

We propose a light-weight deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to estimate the cosmological parameters from simulated 3-dimensional dark matter distributions with high accuracy. The training set is based on 465 realizations of a cubic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Shuyang Pan , Miaoxin Liu , Jaime Forero-Romero , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Zhigang Li , Haitao Miao , Xiao-Dong Li

We quantify the performance of mass mapping techniques on mock imaging and gravitational lensing data of galaxy clusters. The optimum method depends upon the scientific goal. We assess measurements of clusters' radial density profiles,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Sut-Ieng Tam , Richard Massey , Mathilde Jauzac , Andrew Robertson

Cosmological galaxy formation simulations are still limited by their spatial/mass resolution and cannot model from first principles some of the processes, like star formation, that are key in driving galaxy evolution. As a consequence they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-02 Andrea V. Macciò , Mohamad Ali-Dib , Pavle Vulanović , Hind Al Noori , Fabian Walter , Nico Krieger , Tobias Buck