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We present a new application of deep learning to reconstruct the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps from the images of microwave sky, and to use these reconstructed maps to estimate the masses of galaxy clusters. We use a…

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The vast quantity of strong galaxy-galaxy gravitational lenses expected by future large-scale surveys necessitates the development of automated methods to efficiently model their mass profiles. For this purpose, we train an approximate…

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The circum-galactic medium (CGM) can feasibly be mapped by multiwavelength surveys covering broad swaths of the sky. With multiple large datasets becoming available in the near future, we develop a likelihood-free Deep Learning technique…

Weak gravitational lensing has been used extensively in the past decade to constrain the masses of galaxy clusters, and is the most promising observational technique for providing the mass calibration necessary for precision cosmology with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rachel Mandelbaum , Uros Seljak , Tobias Baldauf , Robert E. Smith

Deep learning models have provided huge interpretation power for image-like data. Specifically, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated incredible acuity for tasks such as feature extraction or parameter estimation. Here we…

We present a simulation-based inference framework using a convolutional neural network to infer dynamical masses of galaxy clusters from their observed 3D projected phase-space distribution, which consists of the projected galaxy positions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-18 Doogesh Kodi Ramanah , Radosław Wojtak , Nikki Arendse

Clusters of galaxies are powerful cosmological probes, particularly if their masses can be determined. One possibility for mass determination is to study the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on small angular scales and observe deviations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott Dodelson

The cosmic microwave background (CMB), carrying the inhomogeneous information of the very early universe, is of great significance for understanding the origin and evolution of our universe. However, observational CMB maps contain serious…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-12 Guo-Jian Wang , Hong-Liang Shi , Ye-Peng Yan , Jun-Qing Xia , Yan-Yun Zhao , Si-Yu Li , Jun-Feng Li

The science behind galaxy interaction and mergers has a fundamental role and gives us an insight into galaxy formation and its evolution. Fluctuating angular momentum is responsible for extraordinary events like polar rings, tidal tails,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-24 Adarsh Mahor , Janvita Reddy , Amitesh Singh , Shashwat Singh

It has been long recognised that, besides being a formidable experiment to observe the primordial CMB anisotropies, Planck will also have the capability to detect galaxy clusters via their SZ imprint. In this paper constraints on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joern Geisbuesch , Michael Hobson

The number density of galaxy clusters across mass and redshift has been established as a powerful cosmological probe. Cosmological analyses with galaxy clusters traditionally employ scaling relations. However, many challenges arise from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 M. Kosiba , N. Cerardi , M. Pierre , F. Lanusse , C. Garrel , N. Werner , M. Shalak

Galaxy groups are essential for studying the distribution of matter on a large scale in redshift surveys and for deciphering the link between galaxy traits and their associated halos. In this work, we propose a widely applicable method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Juntao Ma , Jie Wang , Tianxiang Mao , Hongxiang Chen , Yuxi Meng , Xiaohu Yang , Qingyang Li

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have exhibited great performance in discriminative feature learning for complex visual tasks. Besides discrimination power, interpretability is another important yet under-explored property for CNNs. One…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Wengang Guo , Jiayi Yang , Huilin Yin , Qijun Chen , Wei Ye

The mass accretion rate of galaxy clusters is a key factor in determining their structure, but a reliable observational tracer has yet to be established. We present a state-of-the-art machine learning model for constraining the mass…

The study of the morphology of 2D projected maps of galaxy clusters is a suitable approach to infer, from real data, the dynamical state of those systems. We recently developed a new method to recover the morphological features in galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-13 Valentina Capalbo , Marco De Petris , Weiguang Cui , Antonio Ferragamo , Florian Ruppin , Gustavo Yepes

We investigate the use of deep convolutional neural networks (deep CNNs) for automatic visual detection of galaxy mergers. Moreover, we investigate the use of transfer learning in conjunction with CNNs, by retraining networks first trained…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Sandro Ackermann , Kevin Schawinski , Ce Zhang , Anna K. Weigel , M. Dennis Turp

The total masses of galaxy clusters characterize many aspects of astrophysics and the underlying cosmology. It is crucial to obtain reliable and accurate mass estimates for numerous galaxy clusters over a wide range of redshifts and mass…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Sheng-Chieh Lin , Yuanyuan Su , Gongbo Liang , Yuanyuan Zhang , Nathan Jacobs , Yu Zhang

We investigate whether combining gas and stellar kinematic maps provides measurable advantages in recovering galaxy mass profiles, compared to using single-component maps alone. While traditional methods struggle to integrate multi-tracer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-23 Julen Expósito-Márquez , Arianna Di Cintio , Chris Brook , Jorge Sarrato-Alós , Andrea V. Macciò

Properties of massive galaxy clusters, such as mass abundance and concentration, are sensitive to cosmology, making cluster statistics a powerful tool for cosmological studies. However, favoring a more simplified, spherically symmetric…

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…

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