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Observations of the cosmic 21-cm power spectrum (PS) are starting to enable precision Bayesian inference of galaxy properties and physical cosmology, during the first billion years of our Universe. Here we investigate the impact of common…

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Understanding the evolution of galaxies provides crucial insights into a broad range of aspects in astrophysics, including structure formation and growth, the nature of dark energy and dark matter, baryonic physics, and more. It is,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-13 Andreas Filipp , Yiping Shu , Ruediger Pakmor , Sherry H. Suyu , Xiaosheng Huang

Observations of high-redshift galaxies have provided us with a rich tool to study the physics at play during the epoch of reionisation. The luminosity function (LF) of these objects is an indirect tracer of the complex processes that govern…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-04 Nashwan Sabti , Julian B. Muñoz , Diego Blas

For the next generation of spectroscopic galaxy surveys, it is important to forecast their performances and to accurately interpret their large data sets. For this purpose, it is necessary to consistently simulate different populations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 Martina Fagioli , Luca Tortorelli , Jörg Herbel , Dominik Zürcher , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara

With the advent of billion-galaxy surveys with complex data, the need of the hour is to efficiently model galaxy spectral energy distributions (SEDs) with robust uncertainty quantification. The combination of Simulation-Based inference…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-18 Gourav Khullar , Brian Nord , Aleksandra Ciprijanovic , Jason Poh , Fei Xu

We introduce Synference, a new, flexible Python framework for galaxy SED fitting using simulation-based inference (SBI). Synference leverages the Synthesizer package for flexible forward-modelling of galaxy SEDs and integrates the LtU-ILI…

We present a Simulation-Based Inference (SBI) framework for cosmological parameter estimation via void lensing analysis. Despite the absence of an analytical model of void lensing, SBI can effectively learn posterior distributions through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-09 Chen Su , Huanyuan Shan , Cheng Zhao , Wenshuo Xu , Jiajun Zhang

Context. Strong lensing mass measurements require the knowledge of the redshift of both the lens and the source galaxy. Traditionally, spectroscopic redshifts are used for this purpose. Upcoming surveys, however, will lead to the discovery…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-15 Alessandro Sonnenfeld

We present an efficient Bayesian SED-fitting framework tailored to multiwavelength pixel photometry from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). Our method employs simulation-based inference to enable rapid posterior sampling…

We present a multi-modal foundation model for astrophysical galaxy data, designed to map between simulation- and observation-based galactic features. Our encoder-only transformer flexibly ingests scalar quantities (e.g., redshifts, galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-10 Bin Xia , Nesar Ramachandra , Azton I. Wells , Salman Habib , John Wise

It has been recently shown that a powerful way to constrain cosmological parameters from galaxy redshift surveys is to train graph neural networks to perform field-level likelihood-free inference without imposing cuts on scale. In…

Knowledge of the primordial matter density field from which the large-scale structure of the Universe emerged over cosmic time is of fundamental importance for cosmology. However, reconstructing these cosmological initial conditions from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-06 Oleg Savchenko , Guillermo Franco Abellán , Florian List , Noemi Anau Montel , Christoph Weniger

The statistical properties of the ellipticities of galaxy images depend on how galaxies form and evolve, and therefore constrain models of galaxy morphology, which are key to the removal of the intrinsic alignment contamination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-28 B. Joachimi , E. Semboloni , P. E. Bett , J. Hartlap , S. Hilbert , H. Hoekstra , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback

The abundance and mass distribution of galaxy clusters is a sensitive probe of cosmological parameters, through the sensitivity of the high-mass end of the halo mass function to $\Omega_m$ and $\sigma_8$. While galaxy cluster surveys have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 M. Regamey , D. Eckert , R. Seppi , W. Hartley , K. Umetsu , S. Tam , D. Gerolymatou

Future cosmological galaxy surveys such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will photometrically observe very large numbers of galaxies. Without spectroscopy, the redshifts required for the analysis of these data will need to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-07 Daniel M. Jones , Alan F. Heavens

We present a simulation-based inference framework using a convolutional neural network to infer dynamical masses of galaxy clusters from their observed 3D projected phase-space distribution, which consists of the projected galaxy positions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-18 Doogesh Kodi Ramanah , Radosław Wojtak , Nikki Arendse

Photometric galaxy surveys constitute a powerful cosmological probe but rely on the accurate characterization of their redshift distributions using only broadband imaging, and can be very sensitive to incomplete or biased priors used for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Alex Alarcon , Carles Sánchez , Gary M. Bernstein , Enrique Gaztañaga

We present a new method that simultaneously solves for cosmology and galaxy bias on non-linear scales. The method uses the halo model to analytically describe the (non-linear) matter distribution, and the conditional luminosity function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Frank van den Bosch , Surhud More , Marcello Cacciato , Houjun Mo , Xiaohu Yang

Stage-IV dark energy wide-field surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will observe an unprecedented number density of galaxies. As a result, the majority of imaged galaxies will visually…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Ismael Mendoza , Derek Hansen , Runjing Liu , Zhe Zhao , Ziteng Pang , Axel Guinot , Camille Avestruz , Jeffrey Regier , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration