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We investigate how observations of strong lensing can be used to infer cosmological parameters, in particular the equation of state of dark energy. We focus on the growth of the critical lines of lensing clusters with the source redshift as…

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In this Chapter I review the role that galaxy clusters play as tools to constrain cosmological parameters. I will concentrate mostly on the application of the mass function of galaxy clusters, while other methods, such as that based on the…

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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…

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The properties of nearby galaxy clusters limit the range of cosmological parameters consistent with our universe. We describe the limits which arise from studies of the intracluster medium (ICM) mass fraction fICM and consideration of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Joseph J. Mohr , Zoltan Haiman , Gilbert P. Holder

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

This work proposes a multiple machine learning method (MMLM) aiming to improve the accuracy and robustness in the analysis of star clusters. The MMLM performance is evaluated by applying it to the reanalysis of the old binary cluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-18 Denilso Camargo

Understanding the impact of halo properties beyond halo mass on the clustering of galaxies (namely galaxy assembly bias) remains a challenge for contemporary models of galaxy clustering. We explore the use of machine learning to predict the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Xiaoju Xu , Saurabh Kumar , Idit Zehavi , Sergio Contreras

We use giga-particle N-body simulations to study galaxy cluster populations in Hubble Volumes of LCDM (Omega_m=0.3, Omega_Lambda=0.7) and tCDM (Omega_m=1) world models. Mapping past light-cones of locations in the computational space, we…

X-ray observations of galaxy clusters potentially provide powerful cosmological probes if systematics due to our incomplete knowledge of the intracluster medium (ICM) physics are understood and controlled. In this paper, we present mock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daisuke Nagai , Alexey Vikhlinin , Andrey V. Kravtsov

Galaxy clusters trace the highest density peaks in the large-scale structure of the Universe. Their clustering provides a powerful probe that can be exploited in combination with cluster mass measurements to strengthen the cosmological…

This work explores the relationships between galaxy sizes and related observable galaxy properties in a large volume cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. The objectives of this work are to both develop a better understanding of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-30 Chad Schafer , Sukhdeep Singh , Yesukhei Jagvaral

We present a modern machine learning approach for cluster dynamical mass measurements that is a factor of two improvement over using a conventional scaling relation. Different methods are tested against a mock cluster catalog constructed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 Michelle Ntampaka , Hy Trac , Danica J. Sutherland , Nicholas Battaglia , Barnabas Poczos , Jeff Schneider

We explore unsupervised machine learning for galaxy morphology analyses using a combination of feature extraction with a vector-quantised variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE) and hierarchical clustering (HC). We propose a new methodology that…

Cosmological simulations like CAMELS and IllustrisTNG characterize hundreds of thousands of galaxies using various internal properties. Previous studies have demonstrated that machine learning can be used to infer the cosmological parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Amanda Lue , Shy Genel , Marc Huertas-Company , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Matthew Ho

Machine learning is a powerful technique, becoming increasingly popular in astrophysics. In this paper, we apply machine learning to more than a thousand globular cluster (GC) models simulated as part of the 'MOCCA-Survey Database I'…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 Ammar Askar , Abbas Askar , Mario Pasquato , Mirek Giersz

Galaxy clusters and cosmic voids, the most extreme objects of our Universe in terms of mass and size, trace two opposite sides of the large-scale matter density field. By studying their abundance as a function of their mass and radius,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Davide Pelliciari , Sofia Contarini , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Carlo Giocoli , Giorgio Francesco Lesci , Klaus Dolag

Cluster weak lensing is a sensitive probe of cosmology, particularly the amplitude of matter clustering $\sigma_8$ and matter density parameter $\Omega_m$. The main nuisance parameter in a cluster weak lensing cosmological analysis is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Andrés N. Salcedo , Benjamin D. Wibking , David H. Weinberg , Hao-Yi Wu , Douglas Ferrer , Daniel Eisenstein , Philip Pinto

Galaxy cluster peculiar velocities can be inferred from high-sensitivity, high-resolution multiple-frequency observations in the 30 to 400 GHz range. While galaxy cluster counts and power spectra are sensitive to the growth factor, peculiar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Peel , L. Knox

Galaxies and galaxy clusters trace the same cosmic density field, but their statistics have been modeled separately in cosmological analyses. We present a unified, simulation-based framework to model them using the galaxy-halo connection.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Shulei Cao , Hao-Yi Wu , Andrés N. Salcedo , David H. Weinberg , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

Clusters of galaxies are used in a variety of ways to do cosmology. Some of them are presented here. Their X-ray emitting gas allows us to determine the baryon fraction, dark matter distribution and the matter density $\Omega_{m}$ of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Africa Castillo-Morales , Sabine Schindler