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A central challenge in observational studies of galaxy formation is how to associate progenitor galaxies with their descendants at lower redshifts. One promising approach is to link galaxies at fixed number density, rather than fixed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Joel Leja , Pieter van Dokkum , Marijn Franx

We revisit the evolution model of grain size distribution in a galaxy for the ultimate purpose of implementing it in hydrodynamical simulations. We simplify the previous model in such a way that some model-dependent assumptions are replaced…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 Hiroyuki Hirashita , Shohei Aoyama

An accurate computational method is presented to determine the mass distribution in a rotating thin-disk galaxy from given rotation curve by applying Newtonian dynamics for an axisymmetrically rotating thin disk of finite size with or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-17 James Q. Feng , C. F. Gallo

Distinguishing galaxies as either fast or slow rotators plays a vital role in understanding the processes behind galaxy formation and evolution. Standard techniques, which are based on the $\lambda_R$-spin parameter obtained from stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 Amirmohammad Chegeni , Fatemeh Fazel Hesar , Mojtaba Raouf , Bernard Foing , Fons J. Verbeek

We describe a new, non-parametric, method for reconstructing lensing mass distributions in multiple-image systems, and apply it to PG1115, for which time delays have recently been measured. It turns out that the image positions and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Prasenjit Saha , Liliya L. R. Williams

We present a data-driven method for reconstructing the galactic acceleration field from phase-space measurements of stellar streams. Our approach is based on a flexible and differentiable fit to the stream in phase-space, enabling a direct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-31 Jacob Nibauer , Vasily Belokurov , Miles Cranmer , Jeremy Goodman , Shirley Ho

The future astronomical imaging surveys are set to provide precise constraints on cosmological parameters, such as dark energy. However, production of synthetic data for these surveys, to test and validate analysis methods, suffers from a…

The mass distribution in the Galaxy is determined by dynamical and photometric methods. Rotation curves are the major tool for determining the dynamical mass distribution in the Milky Way and spiral galaxies. The photometric (statistical)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Yoshiaki Sofue

Galaxy populations at different cosmic epochs are often linked together by comoving cumulative number density in observational studies. Many theoretical works, however, have shown that the number densities of tracked galaxy populations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 Sarah Wellons , Paul Torrey

Strong gravitational lensing and stellar dynamics provide two complementary and orthogonal constraints on the density profiles of galaxies. Based on spherically symmetric, scale-free, mass models, it is shown that the combination of both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. V. E. Koopmans

One emerging application of machine learning methods is the inference of galaxy cluster masses. In this note, machine learning is used to directly combine five simulated multiwavelength measurements in order to find cluster masses. This is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 J. D. Cohn , Nicholas Battaglia

Training nonlinear parametrizations such as deep neural networks to numerically approximate solutions of partial differential equations is often based on minimizing a loss that includes the residual, which is analytically available in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Yuxiao Wen , Eric Vanden-Eijnden , Benjamin Peherstorfer

Cumulative number density matching of galaxies is a method to observationally connect descendent galaxies to their typical main progenitors at higher redshifts and thereby to assess the evolution of galaxy properties. The accuracy of this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 Bart Clauwens , Marijn Franx , Joop Schaye

Galaxies are biased tracers of the underlying cosmic web, which is dominated by dark matter components that cannot be directly observed. Galaxy formation simulations can be used to study the relationship between dark matter density fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 Victoria Ono , Core Francisco Park , Nayantara Mudur , Yueying Ni , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

Being able to distinguish between galaxies that have recently undergone major merger events, or are experiencing intense star formation, is crucial for making progress in our understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies. As…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-01 Leonardo Ferreira , Christopher J. Conselice , Ulrike Kuchner , Clar-Bríd Tohill

The use of machine learning to predict wave dynamics is a topic of growing interest, but commonly-used deep learning approaches suffer from a lack of interpretability of the trained models. Here we present an interpretable machine learning…

Using deep machine learning we show that the internal velocities of galaxies can be retrieved from optical images trained using 4596 systems observed with the SDSS-MaNGA survey. Using only $i$-band images we show that the velocity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-22 Sakina Hansen , Christopher J. Conselice , Amelia Fraser-McKelvie , Leonardo Ferreira

Diffusion models have shown an impressive ability to model complex data distributions, with several key advantages over GANs, such as stable training, better coverage of the training distribution's modes, and the ability to solve inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yinbo Chen , Oliver Wang , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Xiaolong Wang , Michael Gharbi

Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for studying the distribution of mass in the Universe. Understanding the magnification bias effect in gravitational lensing and its impact on the flux of sub-millimetre galaxies (SMGs) is crucial for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-05 D. Crespo , J. González-Nuevo , L. Bonavera , M. M. Cueli , J. M. Casas

Clusters of galaxies mass can be inferred by indirect observations, see X-ray band, Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect signal or optical. Unfortunately, all of them are affected by some bias. Alternatively, we provide an independent estimation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Daniel de Andres , Weiguang Cui , Florian Ruppin , Marco De Petris , Gustavo Yepes , Ichraf Lahouli , Gianmarco Aversano , Romain Dupuis , Mahmoud Jarraya