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Maps of cosmic structure produced by galaxy surveys are one of the key tools for answering fundamental questions about the Universe. Accurate theoretical predictions for these quantities are needed to maximize the scientific return of these…

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In recent years, machine learning (ML) algorithms have been successfully employed in Astronomy for analyzing and interpreting the data collected from various surveys. The need for new robust and efficient data analysis tools in Astronomy is…

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We present a maximum-likelihood analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing effects in galaxy clusters and in the field. The aim is to determine the accuracy and robustness of constraints that can be obtained on galaxy halo properties in both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marceau Limousin , Jean Paul Kneib , Priyamvada Natarajan

In this work we demonstrate the efficacy of neural networks in the characterization of dispersive media. We also develop a neural network to make predictions for input probe pulses which propagate through a nonlinear dispersive medium,…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-02 Sanjaya Lohani , Erin M. Knutson , Wenlei Zhang , Ryan T. Glasser

We present a novel method to infer the Dark Matter (DM) content and spatial distribution within galaxies, based on convolutional neural networks trained within state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations (Illustris TNG100). The framework we…

This paper demonstrates that the stellar masses of galaxies in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, originally derived via stellar population synthesis modelling, can be accurately predicted using only their absolute magnitudes and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 E. Elson

We present a new method by which the total masses of galaxies including dark matter can be estimated from the kinematics of their globular cluster systems (GCSs). In the proposed method, we apply the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Rajvir Kaur , Kenji Bekki , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Amitava Datta

We present a percent-level accurate model of the line-of-sight velocity distribution of galaxies around dark matter halos as a function of projected radius and halo mass. The model is developed and tested using synthetic galaxy catalogs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Han Aung , Daisuke Nagai , Eduardo Rozo , Brandon Wolfe , Susmita Adhikari

We present a set-based machine learning framework that infers posterior distributions of galaxy cluster masses from projected galaxy dynamics. Our model combines Deep Sets and conditional normalizing flows to incorporate both positional and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Bonny Y. Wang , Leander Thiele

Machine learning (ML) techniques, in particular supervised regression algorithms, are a promising new way to use multiple observables to predict a cluster's mass or other key features. To investigate this approach we use the \textsc{MACSIS}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Thomas J. Armitage , Scott T. Kay , David J. Barnes

The morphological classification of galaxies is considered a relevant issue and can be approached from different points of view. The increasing growth in the size and accuracy of astronomical data sets brings with it the need for the use of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-01 M. S. Rosito , L. A. Bignone , P. B. Tissera , S. E. Pedrosa

Differential equations are a ubiquitous tool to study dynamics, ranging from physical systems to complex systems, where a large number of agents interact through a graph with non-trivial topological features. Data-driven approximations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-26 Vaiva Vasiliauskaite , Nino Antulov-Fantulin

We introduce a novel method for reconstructing the projected matter distributions of galaxy clusters with weak-lensing (WL) data based on convolutional neural network (CNN). Training datasets are generated with ray-tracing through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-30 Sungwook E. Hong , Sangnam Park , M. James Jee , Dongsu Bak , Sangjun Cha

Cosmological surveys aim at answering fundamental questions about our Universe, including the nature of dark matter or the reason of unexpected accelerated expansion of the Universe. In order to answer these questions, two important…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 Xinyue Zhang , Yanfang Wang , Wei Zhang , Yueqiu Sun , Siyu He , Gabriella Contardo , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho

While thousands of exoplanets have been confirmed, the known properties about individual discoveries remain sparse and depend on detection technique. To utilize more than a small section of the exoplanet dataset, tools need to be developed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Elizabeth J. Tasker , Matthieu Laneuville , Nicholas Guttenberg

Understanding how galaxies trace the underlying matter density field is essential for characterizing the influence of the large-scale structure on galaxy formation, being therefore a key ingredient in observational cosmology. This…

We present a modern machine learning approach for cluster dynamical mass measurements that is a factor of two improvement over using a conventional scaling relation. Different methods are tested against a mock cluster catalog constructed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 Michelle Ntampaka , Hy Trac , Danica J. Sutherland , Nicholas Battaglia , Barnabas Poczos , Jeff Schneider

The study of strong-lensing systems conventionally involves constructing a mass distribution that can reproduce the observed multiply-imaging properties. Such mass reconstructions are generically non-unique. Here, we present an alternative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-30 Philipp Denzel , Sampath Mukherjee , Prasenjit Saha

Quantifying image distortions caused by strong gravitational lensing and estimating the corresponding matter distribution in lensing galaxies has been primarily performed by maximum likelihood modeling of observations. This is typically a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Yashar D. Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault Levasseur , Philip J. Marshall

In this work we explore the possibility of applying machine learning methods designed for one-dimensional problems to the task of galaxy image classification. The algorithms used for image classification typically rely on multiple costly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 F. Tarsitano , C. Bruderer , K. Schawinski , W. G. Hartley