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The Lyman-$\alpha$ forest refers to the series of absorption features observed in the spectra of distant quasars that are produced by neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium. Observed over a wide range of redshifts with both ground-…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Jonás Chaves-Montero

Recent developments in spatial omics technologies have enabled the generation of high dimensional molecular data, such as transcriptomes, proteomes, and epigenomes, within their spatial tissue context, either through coprofiling on the same…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-21 Esra Busra Isik , Yusuf Hakan Usta , Haozhe Liu , Maryam Riazi , William Roach , Hongpeng Zhou , Magnus Rattray , Sokratia Georgaka

We review observations of molecular absorption line systems at high redshift toward red quasars and gravitational lenses.

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 C. L. Carilli , K. M. Menten

Modern astronomy relies on massive databases collected by robotic telescopes and digital sky surveys, acquiring data in a much faster pace than what manual analysis can support. Among other data, these sky surveys collect information about…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-29 Evan Kuminski , Lior Shamir

Cosmography, the study and making of maps of the universe or cosmos, is a field where visual representation benefits from modern three-dimensional visualization techniques and media. At the extragalactic distance scales, visualization is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Daniel Pomarede , Helene M. Courtois , Yehuda Hoffman , R. Brent Tully

The Q \& U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) is a new kind of cosmological instrument that uses interferometry to observe the sky. The unique synthesized beam of QUBIC has an important frequency d\'ependance that we use to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-08 Tom Laclavère

The physical nature of the material responsible for the high--velocity, broad-absorption line features seen in a small fraction of quasar spectra has been the subject of debate since their discovery. This has been especially compounded by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Geraint F. Lewis , Kunegunda E. Belle

In recent years the possibility of measuring the temporal change of radial and transverse position of sources in the sky in real time have become conceivable thanks to the thoroughly improved technique applied to new astrometric and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-26 Claudia Quercellini , Luca Amendola , Amedeo Balbi , Paolo Cabella , Miguel Quartin

The physical state of the intergalactic medium can be probed in great detail with the intervening absorption systems seen in quasar spectra. The properties of the Hydrogen absorbers depend on many cosmological parameters, such as the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tom Theuns

Methods based on machine learning have recently made substantial inroads in many corners of cosmology. Through this process, new computational tools, new perspectives on data collection, model development, analysis, and discovery, as well…

We study the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of a z=0.54 simulated dwarf galaxy using hydroART simulations. We present our analysis methods, which emulate observations, including objective absorption line detection, apparent optical depth (AOD)…

In cosmology, the analysis of observational evidence is very important to test theoretical models of the Universe. Artificial neural networks are powerful and versatile computational tools for data modelling and are recently being…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-15 Juan de Dios Rojas Olvera , Isidro Gómez-Vargas , J. Alberto Vázquez

In recent years, deep learning has been successfully applied in various scientific domains. Following these promising results and performances, it has recently also started being evaluated in the domain of radio astronomy. In particular,…

Long range observations in the field of astronomy have opened up our understanding of the Solar System, the Galaxy and the wider Universe. In this paper we discuss the idea of direct in-situ reconnaissance of nearby stellar systems, using…

Popular Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 Kelvin F Long

End-to-end deep learning models fed with multi-band galaxy images are powerful data-driven tools used to estimate galaxy physical properties in the absence of spectroscopy. However, due to a lack of interpretability and the associational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Wei Zhang , Qiufan Lin , Yuan-Sen Ting , Shupei Chen , Hengxin Ruan , Song Li , Yifan Wang

We present a random forest framework for predicting circumgalactic medium (CGM) physical conditions from quasar absorption line observables, trained on a sample of Voigt profile-fit synthetic absorbers from the Simba cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-25 Sarah Appleby , Romeel Davé , Daniele Sorini , Christopher Lovell , Kevin Lo

We develop a new model for automatic extraction of reported measurement values from the astrophysical literature, utilising modern Natural Language Processing techniques. We use this model to extract measurements present in the abstracts of…

This article reviews recent advances in the application of machine learning to weak-lensing cosmology. Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique and powerful probe of the total matter distribution in the Universe, independent of its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Masato Shirasaki

We present an improved model for the absorption of X-rays in the ISM intended for use with data from future X-ray missions with larger effective areas and increased energy resolution such as Chandra and XMM, in the energy range above 100eV.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Wilms , A. Allen , R. McCray