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X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) trace the growth and evolution of supermassive black hole populations across cosmic time, however, current XLF models are poorly constrained at redshifts of z>6, with a lack…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Cassandra L. Barlow-Hall , Jack Delaney , James Aird , Philip A. Evans , Julian P. Osborne , Michael G. Watson

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) provide a formalism to quantify and calibrate uncertainty in deep learning. Current inference approaches for BNNs often resort to few-sample estimation for scalability, which can harm predictive performance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Zhe Zeng , Guy Van den Broeck

In this paper, we study the cosmological implications of the 100 square degree Weak Lensing survey (the CFHTLS-Wide, RCS, VIRMOS-DESCART and GaBoDS surveys). We combine these weak lensing data with the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-07 Hong Li , Jie Liu , Jun-Qing Xia , Lei Sun , Zu-Hui Fan , Charling Tao , Andre Tilquin , Xinmin Zhang

We study the spectral properties of the unresolved cosmic X-ray background (CXRB) in the 1.5-7.0 keV energy band with the aim of providing an observational constraint on the statistical properties of those sources that are too faint to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Moretti , S. Vattakunnel , P. Tozzi , R. Salvaterra , P. Severgnini , D. Fugazza , F. Haardt , R. Gilli

Flow matching with clean-data prediction has shown that regressing the clean point can exploit low-dimensional structure more effectively than predicting an ambient noised quantity. We ask whether this principle remains useful after images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Funing Fu , Tenghui Wang , Guanyu Zhou , Junyong Cen , Qichao Zhu

Wavelet shrinkage estimators are widely applied in several fields of science for denoising data in wavelet domain by reducing the magnitudes of empirical coefficients. In nonparametric regression problem, most of the shrinkage rules are…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-14 Alex Rodrigo dos Santos Sousa , Nancy Lopes Garcia

We show using a realistic Hamiltonian-type model that definite outcomes of quantum measurements may emerge from quantum evolution of pure states, i.e quantum dynamics provides a deterministic collapse of the wavefunction in a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-10 Håkon Brox , Kåre Olaussen , Anh Kiet Nguyen

We forecast combined future constraints from the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure on the models of primordial non-Gaussianity. We study the generalized local model of non-Gaussianity, where the parameter f_NL is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Adam Becker , Dragan Huterer , Kenji Kadota

We investigate the cosmological information in higher-order statistics of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence field for a near-term experiment with noise properties similar to the Simons Observatory (SO). Using a fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Shu-Fan Chen , J. Colin Hill , Zoltán Haiman

The synthesis model for the cosmic X-ray background (XRB) -based on the integrated emission of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs)- is complemented with new observational results. We adopt the most recent estimates of the AGN X-ray luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Gilli , G. Risaliti , M. Salvati

The XENON1T experiment is the most recent stage of the XENON Dark Matter Search, aiming for the direct detection of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). To reach its projected sensitivity, the background has to be reduced by two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 Christopher Geis , Cyril Grignon , Uwe Oberlack , Diego Ramírez García , Quirin Weitzel

Gravitational wave echoes offer a unique probe of the near-horizon structure of astrophysical black holes, beyond the standard ''black hole spectroscopy''. Theoretical waveform predictions, however, remain uncertain, motivating robust…

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We consider the problem of robust deconvolution, and particularly the recovery of an unknown deterministic signal convolved with a known filter and corrupted by additive noise. We present a novel, non-iterative data-driven approach.…

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The XENON1T experiment searches for dark matter particles through their scattering off xenon atoms in a 2 tonne liquid xenon target. The detector is a dual-phase time projection chamber, which measures simultaneously the scintillation and…

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In recent years, deep neural networks showed their exceeding capabilities in addressing many computer vision tasks including scene flow prediction. However, most of the advances are dependent on the availability of a vast amount of dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Katharina Bendig , René Schuster , Didier Stricker

In the DP-model, gravity-related spontaneous wave function collapses suppress undesirable Schr\"odinger Cat states. We derive the equations of the model for the hydrodynamic-elastic (acoustic) modes in a bulk. Two particular features are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 Lajos Diósi

We compute the critical density of collapse for spherically symmetric overdensities in a class of f(R) modified gravity models. For the first time we evolve the Einstein, scalar field and non-linear fluid equations, making the minimal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-26 Michael Kopp , Stephen A. Appleby , Ixandra Achitouv , Jochen Weller

Diffusion models generate high-dimensional data with remarkable quality, yet how their training efficiently learns the score function, bypassing the curse of dimensionality when data is supported on low-dimensional manifolds, remains…

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Deep learning models are trained to minimize the error between the model's output and the actual values. The typical cost function, the Mean Squared Error (MSE), arises from maximizing the log-likelihood of additive independent, identically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Anand Ramakrishnan , Warren B. Jackson , Kent Evans

A relativistic version of the Schr{\"o}dinger-Newton equation is analyzed within the recently proposed Grave de Peralta approach [L. Grave de Peralta, {\em Results Phys.} {\bf 18} (2020) 103318], which include relativistic effects by a…

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