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Measuring the density profile of dark matter in the Solar neighborhood has important implications for both dark matter theory and experiment. In this work, we apply autoregressive flows to stars from a realistic simulation of a Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-29 Matthew R Buckley , Sung Hak Lim , Eric Putney , David Shih

A simple, fully connected neural network with a single hidden layer is used to estimate stellar masses for star-forming galaxies. The model is trained on broad-band photometry - from far-ultraviolet to mid-infrared wavelengths - generated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 E. Elson

Galaxies grow and evolve in dark matter halos. Because dark matter is not visible, galaxies' halo masses ($\rm{M}_{\rm{halo}}$) must be inferred indirectly. We present a graph neural network (GNN) model for predicting $\rm{M}_{\rm{halo}}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-20 Nikhil Garuda , John F. Wu , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich

We use the IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamical simulation to study the rotation curves of galaxies in the local universe. To do that, we first select the galaxies with 9.4 $<$ $\log{(M_\mathrm{star}/M_\odot)}$ $<$ 11.5 to make a sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 Daeun Jeong , Ho Seong Hwang , Haeun Chung , Yongmin Yoon

We train deep learning models on thousands of galaxy catalogues from the state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of the CAMELS project to perform regression and inference. We employ Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), architectures designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-10 Pablo Villanueva-Domingo , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

We present observations and analysis of rotation curves and dark matter halo density profiles in the central regions of four nearby dwarf galaxies. This observing program has been designed to overcome some of the limitations of other…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto D. Bolatto , Joshua D. Simon , Adam Leroy , Leo Blitz

Rotation curves of galaxies show a wide range of shapes, which can be paramaterized as scatter in Vrot(1kpc)/Vmax i.e.the ratio of the rotation velocity measured at 1kpc and the maximum measured rotation velocity. We examine whether the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-19 Chris Brook

Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for constraining substructure in the mass distribution of galaxies, be it from the presence of dark matter sub-halos or due to physical mechanisms affecting the baryons throughout galaxy evolution.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-28 Georgios Vernardos , Grigorios Tsagkatakis , Yannis Pantazis

Conventional galaxy mass estimation methods suffer from model assumptions and degeneracies. Machine learning, which reduces the reliance on such assumptions, can be used to determine how well present-day observations can yield predictions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-27 Jiani Chu , Hongming Tang , Dandan Xu , Shengdong Lu , Richard Long

We make a direct comparison of the derived dark matter (DM) distributions between hydrodynamical simulations of dwarf galaxies assuming a LCDM cosmology and the observed dwarf galaxies sample from the THINGS survey in terms of (1) the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Se-Heon Oh , Chris Brook , Fabio Governato , Elias Brinks , Lucio Mayer , W. J. G. de Blok , Alyson Brooks , Fabian Walter

Consecutive points in rotation curve measurements are correlated with each other, but this is usually ignored when constructing galaxy mass models. We apply a recently proposed data-driven approach to include the characteristic amplitude…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-25 Helena Chase , Diego Dado , Katherine E. Harborne , Kyle A. Oman

We examine the circular velocity profiles of galaxies in {\Lambda}CDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulations from the EAGLE and LOCAL GROUPS projects and compare them with a compilation of observed rotation curves of galaxies spanning a…

Using data from TNG300-2, we train a neural network (NN) to recreate the stellar mass ($M^*$) and star formation rate (SFR) of central galaxies in a dark-matter-only simulation. We consider 12 input properties from the halo and sub-halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Cristian Hernández Cuevas , Roberto E. González , Nelson D. Padilla

The distribution of dark matter in dwarf galaxies can have important implications on our understanding of galaxy formation as well as the particle physics properties of dark matter. However, accurately characterizing the dark matter content…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Laura J. Chang , Lina Necib

Data analysis from upcoming large galaxy redshift surveys, such as Euclid and DESI will significantly improve constraints on cosmological parameters. To optimally extract the information from these galaxy surveys, it is important to control…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 S. Gouyou Beauchamps , P. Baratta , S. Escoffier , W. Gillard , J. Bel , J. Bautista , C. Carbone

Dark matter-only simulations predict that dark matter halos have steep, cuspy inner density profiles, while observations of dwarf galaxies find a range of inner slopes that are often much shallower. There is debate whether this discrepancy…

One key piece of evidence for dark matter is the rotation-curve problem: the disagreement between measured galactic rotation curves and their luminous mass. A novel solution to this problem is presented here, in a model that predicts…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-02 Sophia N. Cisneros , Rich Ott , Meagan Crowley , Amy Roberts , Marcus Paz

We argue that combined observations of galaxy rotation curves and gravitational lensing not only allow the deduction of a galaxy's mass profile, but also yield information about the pressure in the galactic fluid. We quantify this statement…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tristan Faber , Matt Visser

The densest state of matter in the universe is uniquely realized inside central cores of the neutron star. While first-principles evaluation of the equation of state of such matter remains as one of the longstanding problems in nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Yuki Fujimoto , Kenji Fukushima , Koichi Murase

Establishing accurate morphological measurements of galaxies in a reasonable amount of time for future big-data surveys such as EUCLID, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope or the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope is a challenge. Because…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 D. Tuccillo , M. Huertas-Company , E. Decenciere , S. Velasco-Forero