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We introduce a novel technique for constraining cosmological parameters and galaxy assembly bias using non-linear redshift-space clustering of galaxies. We scale cosmological N-body simulations and insert galaxies with the SubHalo Abundance…

Context: New spectroscopic surveys will increase the number of astronomical objects requiring characterization by over tenfold.. Machine learning tools are required to address this data deluge in a fast and accurate fashion. Most machine…

We present a method for computing resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) spectra in one-dimensional systems using the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method. By using DMRG to address the problem, we shift the computational…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-20 A. Nocera , U. Kumar , N. Kaushal , G. Alvarez , E. Dagotto , S. Johnston

In this work we simulate the $50-200$ MHz radio sky that is constrained in the field of view ($5^{\circ}$ radius) of the 21 Centimeter Array (21CMA), by carrying out Monte-Carlo simulations to model redshifted cosmological reionization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jingying Wang , Haiguang Xu , Junhua Gu , Tao An , Haijuan Cui , Jianxun Li , Zhongli Zhang , Qian Zheng , Xiang-Ping Wu

We present a new method to quantify substructures in clusters of galaxies, based on the analysis of the intensity of structures. This analysis is done in a residual image that is the result of the subtraction of a surface brightness model,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-06 Felipe Andrade-Santos , Gastão B. Lima Neto , Tatiana F. Laganá

Much of the recent research on solving iterative inference problems focuses on moving away from hand-chosen inference algorithms and towards learned inference. In the latter, the inference process is unrolled in time and interpreted as a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Patrick Putzky , Max Welling

We introduce a new algorithm designed for use with extended lensed images, specifically giant arcs lensed by galaxy clusters. These highly magnified images contain important information about both the mass distribution of the cluster and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 Lana Eid , Charles Keeton

We discuss a novel technique of manipulating X-ray images of galaxy clusters to reveal the nature of small-scale density/temperature perturbations in the intra cluster medium (ICM). As we show, this technique can be used to differentiate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 E. Churazov , P. Arevalo , W. Forman , C. Jones , A. Schekochihin , A. Vikhlinin , I. Zhuravleva

With the goal of extracting as much information as possible from Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of faint, diffuse sources such as galaxy clusters, as well as those of future X-ray telescopes, we present a strategy for forward modeling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Adam B. Mantz , Anthony M. Flores , Taweewat Somboonpanyakul , Steven W. Allen , R. Glenn Morris , Abigail Y. Pan , Haley R. Stueber

We propose the regularized recurrent inference machine (rRIM), a novel machine-learning approach to solve the challenging problem of deriving the pairing glue function from measured optical spectra. The rRIM incorporates physical principles…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-04-04 Hwiwoo Park , Jun H. Park , Jungseek Hwang

One way to constrain the evolutionary histories of galaxies is to analyse their stellar populations. In the local Universe, our understanding of the stellar population properties of galaxies has traditionally relied on the study of optical…

This paper presents a new technique for reconstructing the spatial distributions of hydrogen, temperature and metal abundance of a galaxy cluster. These quantities are worked out from the X-ray spectrum, modeled starting from few analytical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Pizzolato , S. Molendi , S. Ghizzardi , S. De Grandi

The existence of galaxy intrinsic clustering severely hampers the weak lensing reconstruction from cosmic magnification. In paper I \citep{Yang2011}, we proposed a minimal variance estimator to overcome this problem. By utilizing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Xinjuan Yang , Pengjie Zhang , Jun Zhang , Yu Yu

A Rotating Modulator (RM) is one of a class of techniques for indirect imaging of an object scene by modulation and detection of incident photons. Comparison of the RM to more common imaging techniques, the Rotating Modulation Collimator…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-14 B. Budden , G. L. Case , M. L. Cherry

We investigate the ability of machine learning to infer the virial mass ($M_{\rm vir}$) and the scale radius ($r_{\rm s}$) of galaxy clusters from their observables. Using the Uchuu--UniverseMachine galaxy catalog at $z=0.093$, we generate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Hirobumi Tominaga , Asuka Nakamura , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Mohamed H. Abdullah

Entering a new era of high-energy gamma-ray experiments, there is an exciting quest for the first detection of gamma-ray emission from clusters of galaxies. To complement these observational efforts, we use high-resolution simulations of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Anders Pinzke , Christoph Pfrommer

A software package able to simulate imaging observations of galaxy clusters by the Chandra X-ray telescope is here presented. We start from high resolution N-body hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters and assign to each gas particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Gardini

Extensive astronomical surveys, like those conducted with the {\em Chandra} X-ray Observatory, detect hundreds of thousands of unidentified cosmic sources. Machine learning (ML) methods offer an efficient, probabilistic approach to classify…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-09 Shivam Kumaran , Samir Mandal , Sudip Bhattacharyya

We present a machine learning approach for estimating galaxy cluster masses, trained using both Chandra and eROSITA mock X-ray observations of 2,041 clusters from the Magneticum simulations. We train a random forest regressor, an ensemble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-14 Sheridan B. Green , Michelle Ntampaka , Daisuke Nagai , Lorenzo Lovisari , Klaus Dolag , Dominique Eckert , John A. ZuHone

We propose an ambitious new method that models the intracluster medium in clusters of galaxies as a set of X-ray emitting smoothed particles of plasma. Each smoothed particle is described by a handful of parameters including temperature,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 J. R. Peterson , P. J. Marshall , K. Andersson