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In this work, we provide an efficient and realistic data-driven approach to simulate astronomical images using deep generative models from machine learning. Our solution is based on a variant of the generative adversarial network (GAN) with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Mohamad Dia , Elodie Savary , Martin Melchior , Frederic Courbin

Galaxy spectra are essential to probe the spatial distribution of galaxies in our Universe. To better interpret current and future spectroscopic galaxy redshift surveys, it is important to be able to simulate these data sets. We describe…

The determination of the galaxy luminosity function is an active and fundamental field in observational cosmology. In this paper we propose a cost effective way of measuring galaxy luminosity functions at faint magnitudes. Our technique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 M. U. SubbaRao , A. J. Connolly , A. S. Szalay , D. C. Koo

Most of the fundamental, emergent, and phenomenological parameters of particle and nuclear physics are determined through parametric template fits. Simulations are used to populate histograms which are then matched to data. This approach is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-12 Benjamin Sluijter , Sascha Diefenbacher , Wahid Bhimji , Benjamin Nachman

(Abridged) Simulation-based inference (SBI) has emerged as a powerful framework for extracting cosmological information from complex, non-linear data where analytical likelihoods are unavailable. Its reliability is commonly assessed using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Toka Alokda , Cristiano Porciani , Alexander Eggemeier

Understanding how galaxies form and evolve requires measuring their light distributions in images taken by telescopes. This process often involves fitting mathematical models to galaxy images to extract properties such as size, brightness,…

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We measure photometric redshifts and spectral types for galaxies in the COSMOS survey. We use template fitting technique combined with luminosity function priors and with the option to simultaneously estimate dust extinction (i.e. E(B-V))…

Current models of galaxy evolution are constrained by the analysis of catalogs containing the flux and size of galaxies extracted from multiband deep fields carrying inevitable observational and extraction-related biases which can be highly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-30 Florian Livet , Tom Charnock , Damien Le Borgne , Valérie de Lapparent

Conventional approaches to cosmology inference from galaxy redshift surveys are based on n-point functions, which are under rigorous perturbative control on sufficiently large scales. Here, we present an alternative approach, which employs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Fabian Schmidt , Franz Elsner , Jens Jasche , Nhat Minh Nguyen , Guilhem Lavaux

We develop a framework for using clustering-based redshift inference (cluster-$z$) to measure the evolving galaxy luminosity function (GLF) and galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) using WISE W1 ($3.4\mu m$) mid-infrared photometry and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-26 Geray S. Karademir , Edward N. Taylor , Chris Blake , Michelle E. Cluver , Thomas H. Jarrett , Dian P. Triani

This work uses observed galaxy surface brightness profiles at high redshifts to determine the cosmological model best suited to interpret these observations. Theoretical predictions of galactic surface brightness profiles are compared to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-23 Iker Olivares-Salaverri , Marcelo Byrro Ribeiro

Redshift is a key quantity for inferring cosmological model parameters. In photometric redshift estimation, cosmologists use the coarse data collected from the vast majority of galaxies to predict the redshift of individual galaxies. To…

Applications · Statistics 2016-04-07 Rafael Izbicki , Ann B. Lee , Peter E. Freeman

Modelling star-forming galaxies is crucial for upcoming observations of large-scale matter and galaxy distributions with galaxy redshift surveys and line intensity mapping (LIM). We introduce CosmoGLINT (Cosmological Generative model for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-31 Kana Moriwaki , Rui Lan Jun , Ken Osato , Naoki Yoshida

Machine learning techniques offer a precious tool box for use within astronomy to solve problems involving so-called big data. They provide a means to make accurate predictions about a particular system without prior knowledge of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-01 J. Elliott , R. S. de Souza , A. Krone-Martins , E. Cameron , E. E. O. Ishida , J. Hilbe

To characterise the cosmological evolution of the sources contributing to the infrared extragalactic background, we have developped a phenomenological model that constrains in a simple way the galaxy luminosity function evolution with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 G. Lagache , H. Dole , J. -L. Puget

Obtaining accurately calibrated redshift distributions of photometric samples is one of the great challenges in photometric surveys like LSST, Euclid, HSC, KiDS, and DES. We present an inference methodology that combines the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-09 M. M. Rau , C. B. Morrison , S. J. Schmidt , S. Wilson , R. Mandelbaum , Y. Y. Mao

We present Mantis Shrimp, a multi-survey deep learning model for photometric redshift estimation that fuses ultra-violet (GALEX), optical (PanSTARRS), and infrared (UnWISE) imagery. Machine learning is now an established approach for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-01 Andrew Engel , Nell Byler , Adam Tsou , Gautham Narayan , Emmanuel Bonilla , Ian Smith

Repp and Szapudi (2019) present a physically-motivated galaxy bias model which remains physical in low-density regions and which also provides a better fit to simulation data than do typical survey-analysis bias models. Given plausible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-13 Andrew Repp , István Szapudi

Flow and diffusion generative models have established themselves as widely adopted density estimators for simulation-based inference (SBI), extending naturally from neural posterior estimation to likelihood and joint density estimation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Aurelio Amerio

We present a new Galaxy population synthesis Model (GalMod). GalMod is a star-count model featuring an asymmetric bar/bulge as well as spiral arms and related extinction. The model, initially introduced in Pasetto et al. (2016b), has been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 S. Pasetto , E. K. Grebel , C. Chiosi , D. Crnojevic , P. Zeidler , G. Busso , L. P. Cassara , L. Piovan , R. Tantalo , C. Brogliato
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