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Eclipsing binaries provide one of the most direct mechanisms for measuring stellar properties such as mass and radius, but historically, determining these properties has been non-trivial and computationally prohibitive. As such, only a…

The missing gravity in galaxies requires dark matter, or alternatively a modification of gravity or inertia. These theoretical possibilities of fundamental importance may be distinguished by the statistical relation between the observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Kyu-Hyun Chae

Different models of dark matter can alter the distribution of mass in galaxy clusters in a variety of ways. However, so can uncertain astrophysical feedback mechanisms. Here we present a Machine Learning method that ''learns'' how the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 David Harvey

A novel method images to estimate cosmological parameters based on images is presented. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of a convolutional neural network (CNN) for constraining the mass of dark matter particle. For this purpose, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 Koya Murakami , Atsushi J. Nishizawa

We present a novel graph-based machine learning classifier for identifying the dark matter cosmic web environments of galaxies. Large galaxy surveys offer comprehensive statistical views of how galaxy properties are shaped by large-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-02 Dakshesh Kololgi , Krishna Naidoo , Amelie Saintonge , Ofer Lahav

We propose a lightweight deep convolutional neural network (lCNN) to estimate cosmological parameters from simulated three-dimensional dark matter (DM) halo distributions and associated statistics. The training dataset comprises 2000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Zhiwei Min , Xu Xiao , Jiacheng Ding , Liang Xiao , Jie Jiang , Donglin Wu , Qiufan Lin , Yang Wang , Shuai Liu , Zhixin Chen , Xiangru Li , Jinqu Zhang , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

We explore how information in images of nearby galaxies can be used to estimate their distance. We train a convolutional Neural Network (NN) to do this, using galaxy images from the Illustris simulation. We show that if the NN is trained on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-21 Kevin M. Quigley , Samuel Hori , Rupert A. C. Croft

A better understanding of the formation of mass structures in the universe can be obtained by determining the amount and distribution of dark and luminous matter in spiral galaxies. To investigate such matters a sample of 12 galaxies, most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Roelof Bottema , Jose Luis G. Pestana

The possibility to constrain cosmological parameters from galaxy surveys using field-level machine learning methods that bypass traditional summary statistics analyses, depends crucially on our ability to generate simulated training sets.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Iñigo Sáez-Casares , Matteo Calabrese , Davide Bianchi , Marina S. Cagliari , Marco Chiarenza , Jean-Marc Christille , Luigi Guzzo

Characterizing the geometry of an object orbiting around a star from its transit light curve is a powerful tool to uncover various complex phenomena. This problem is inherently ill-posed, since similar or identical light curves can be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Ushasi Bhowmick , Shivam Kumaran

Next-generation surveys will provide photometric and spectroscopic data of millions to billions of galaxies with unprecedented precision. This offers a unique chance to improve our understanding of the galaxy evolution and the unresolved…

Galaxy rotation curve (RC) fitting is an important technique which allows the placement of constraints on different kinds of dark matter (DM) halo models. In the case of non-phenomenological DM profiles with no analytic expressions, the art…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-17 Carlos R. Argüelles , Santiago Collazo

We derive inner dark matter halo density profile slopes for a sample of 200 dwarf galaxies by inverting rotation curves obtained from high-quality, long-slit optical spectra. Using simulations to assess the impact of long-slit observing and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Spekkens , R. Giovanelli

We review the topic of rotation curves of spiral galaxies emphasizing the standard interpretation as evidence for the existence of dark matter halos. Galaxies other than spirals and late-type dwarfs may also possess great amounts of dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eduardo Battaner , Estrella Florido

Galaxy clusters are important cosmological probes that have helped to establish the $\mathrm{\Lambda}$CDM paradigm as the standard model of cosmology. However, recent tensions between different types of high-accuracy data highlight the need…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Nikolaos Triantafyllou , Giorgos Korkidis , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Paolo Bonfini

The observed flat rotation curves of galaxies require either the presence of dark matter in Newtonian gravitational potentials or a significant modification to the theory of gravity at galactic scales. Detecting relativistic Doppler shifts…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-15 Alan Cooney , Dimitrios Psaltis , Dennis Zaritsky

Mass models of a sample of 171 low- and high-surface brightness galaxies are presented in the context of the cold dark matter (CDM) theory using the NFW dark matter halo density distribution to extract a new concentration-viral mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-21 Hosein Haghi , Aziz Khodadadi , Amir Ghari , Akram Hasani Zonoozi , Pavel Kroupa

Models for DM are invoked with various density distributions, to account for flat rotation curves of galaxies. The effect of DE on these profiles for large galaxies and clusters are also studied. The rotation curves are shown to dip at a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-25 C. Sivaram , Venkata Manohara Reddy. A

Rotation curves of galaxies probe their total mass distributions, including dark matter. Dwarf galaxies are excellent systems to investigate the dark matter density distribution, as they tend to have larger fractions of dark matter compared…

Using a general relativistic exact model for spherical structures in a cosmological background, we have put forward an algorithm to calculate the test particle geodesics within such cosmological structures in order to obtain the velocity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-26 Mohammadhosein Razbin , Javad T. Firouzjaee , Reza Mansouri