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We present a deep machine learning (ML) approach to constraining cosmological parameters with multi-wavelength observations of galaxy clusters. The ML approach has two components: an encoder that builds a compressed representation of each…

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Neutron-capture-enhanced, metal-poor stars are of central importance to developing an understanding of the operation of the r-process in the early Galaxy, thought to be responsible for the formation of roughly half of all elements beyond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. C. Beers , P. S. Barklem , N. Christlieb , V. Hill

We model the history of Galactic r-process enrichment using high-redshift, high-resolution zoom cosmological simulations of a Milky Way (MW) type halo. We assume that all r-process sources are neutron star mergers (NSMs) with a power law…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-08 Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh , Richard Sarmento , Evan Scannapieco

The efficient classification of different types of supernova is one of the most important problems for observational cosmology. However, spectroscopic confirmation of most objects in upcoming photometric surveys, such as the The Rubin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-17 Marcelo Vargas dos Santos , Miguel Quartin , Ribamar R. R. Reis

Machine Learning (ML) is the branch of computer science that studies computer algorithms that can learn from data. It is mainly divided into supervised learning, where the computer is presented with examples of entries, and the goal is to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 V. Carruba , S. Aljbaae , R. C. Domingos , M. Huaman , W. Barletta

Various galaxy merger detection methods have been applied to diverse datasets. However, it is difficult to understand how they compare. We aim to benchmark the relative performance of machine learning (ML) merger detection methods. We…

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 investigate the use of deep convolutional neural networks (deep CNNs) for automatic visual detection of galaxy mergers. Moreover, we investigate the use of transfer learning in conjunction with CNNs, by retraining networks first trained…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Sandro Ackermann , Kevin Schawinski , Ce Zhang , Anna K. Weigel , M. Dennis Turp

Machine learning (ML) is shown to predict new alloys and their performances in a high dimensional, multiple-target-property design space that considers chemistry, multi-step processing routes, and characterization methodology variations. A…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-12 Sen Liu , Branden B. Kappes , Behnam Amin-ahmadi , Othmane Benafan , Xiaoli Zhang , Aaron P. Stebner

We discuss a methodology of machine learning to deduce the neutron star equation of state from a set of mass-radius observational data. We propose an efficient procedure to deal with a mapping from finite data points with observational…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-08 Yuki Fujimoto , Kenji Fukushima , Koichi Murase

Machine learning (ML) can be used to construct surrogate models for the fast prediction of a property of interest. ML can thus be applied to chemical projects, where the usual experimentation or calculation techniques can take hours or days…

Unveiling the evolutionary history of galaxies necessitates a precise understanding of their physical properties. Traditionally, astronomers achieve this through spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting. However, this approach can be…

We present the results of various automated classification methods, based on machine learning (ML), of objects from data releases 6 and 7 (DR6 and DR7) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), primarily distinguishing stars from quasars. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-16 Mohammed Viquar , Suryoday Basak , Ariruna Dasgupta , Surbhi Agrawal , Snehanshu Saha

M dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the Galaxy and serve as key targets for stellar and exoplanetary studies. It is particularly challenging to determine their metallicities because their spectra are complex. For this reason, several…

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Cosmic shear is a primary cosmological probe for several present and upcoming surveys investigating dark matter and dark energy, such as Euclid or WFIRST. The probe requires an extremely accurate measurement of the shapes of millions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-04 Malte Tewes , Thibault Kuntzer , Reiko Nakajima , Frédéric Courbin , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Tim Schrabback

Identification of metal-poor stars among field stars is extremely useful for studying the structure and evolution of the Galaxy and of external galaxies. We search for metal-poor stars using the artificial neural network (ANN) and extend…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Sunetra Giridhar , Aruna Goswami , Andrea Kunder , S. Muneer , G. Selvakumar

We investigate machine learning (ML) techniques for predicting the number of galaxies (N_gal) that occupy a halo, given the halo's properties. These types of mappings are crucial for constructing the mock galaxy catalogs necessary for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Xiaoying Xu , Shirley Ho , Hy Trac , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos , Michelle Ntampaka

Metal-poor stars play an import role in the understanding of Galaxy formation and evolution. Evidence of the early mergers that built up the Galaxy might remain in the distributions of abundances, kinematics, and orbital parameters of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-09 André R. da Silva , Rodolfo Smiljanic , Riano E. Giribaldi

Accurately distinguishing between quiescent and star-forming galaxies is essential for understanding galaxy evolution. Traditional methods, such as spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting, can be computationally expensive and may…

The rapid neutron-capture process (r-process) is responsible for the creation of roughly half of the elements heavier than iron, including precious metals like silver, gold, and platinum, as well as radioactive elements such as thorium and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-14 Avrajit Bandyopadhyay , Timothy C. Beers