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We present numerical simulations of galaxy formation, one of the most challenging problems in computational astrophysics. The key point in such simulations is the efficient solution of the N--body problem. If the gas of a galaxy is treated…

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Galaxy-galaxy strong lensing provides a powerful probe of galaxy formation, evolution, and the properties of dark matter and dark energy. However, conventional lens-modeling approaches are computationally expensive and require fine-tuning…

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A method for following fragmentation simulations further in time using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is presented. In a normal SPH simulation of the collapse and fragmentation of a molecular cloud, high-density regions of gas that…

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We present a selection of candidates of clusters and protoclusters of galaxies identified in the photometric data of the HSC-SSP Wide Public Data Release 3 (PDR3), spanning the redshift range $\rm 0.1 \leq z \leq 2$. The selection method,…

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Current constraints on models of galaxy evolution rely on morphometric catalogs extracted from multi-band photometric surveys. However, these catalogs are altered by selection effects that are difficult to model, that correlate in non…

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Gaussian process regression has recently emerged as a powerful, system-agnostic tool for building global potential energy surfaces (PES) of polyatomic molecules. While the accuracy of GP models of PES increases with the number of potential…

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The integrated spectro-photometric properties of star clusters are subject to large cluster-to-cluster variations. They are distributed in non trivial ways around the average properties predicted by standard population synthesis models.…

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Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is essential for modeling complex large-deformation problems across various applications, requiring significant computational power. A major portion of SPH computation time is dedicated to the Nearest…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zirui Mao , Xinyi Li , Shenyang Hu , Ganesh Gopalakrishnan , Ang Li

Galaxy formation and evolution involves a variety of effectively stochastic processes that operate over different timescales. The Extended Regulator model provides an analytic framework for the resulting variability (or `burstiness') in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-14 Kartheik G. Iyer , Joshua S. Speagle , Neven Caplar , John C. Forbes , Eric Gawiser , Joel Leja , Sandro Tacchella

Derivation of physical properties of galaxies using spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting is a powerful method, but can suffer from various systematics arising from model assumptions. Previously, such biases were mostly studied in the…

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The next generation of Department of Energy supercomputers will be capable of exascale computation. For these machines, far more computation will be possible than that which can be saved to disk. As a result, users will be unable to rely on…

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3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become the de facto method of 3D representation in many vision tasks. This calls for the 3D understanding directly in this representation space. To facilitate the research in this direction, we first build…

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We report on a very large set of simulations of collisions between two main sequence (MS) stars. These computations were done with the ``Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics'' method. Realistic stellar structure models for evolved MS stars were…

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Post-StarBurst (PSB) galaxies are galaxies that have undergone a large burst of star formation followed by rapid quenching. Understanding their properties as a population can help us better understand how galaxies evolve to quiescence. This…

The forward modelling of galaxy surveys has recently gathered interest as one of the primary methods to achieve the required precision on the estimate of the redshift distributions for stage IV surveys. One of the key aspects of forward…

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Binary population synthesis (BPS) modelling is a very effective tool to study the evolution and properties of close binary systems. The uncertainty in the parameters of the model and their effect on a population can be tested in a…

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Observations of the high-$z$ Universe from JWST have revealed a new population of bright, early galaxies. A robust statistical interpretation of this data requires fast forward models that account for uncertainties in galaxy evolution and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-16 Trey Driskell , Ethan O. Nadler , Andrew Benson , Vera Gluscevic

As an important application of spatial databases in pathology imaging analysis, cross-comparing the spatial boundaries of a huge amount of segmented micro-anatomic objects demands extremely data- and compute-intensive operations, requiring…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Kaibo Wang , Yin Huai , Rubao Lee , Fusheng Wang , Xiaodong Zhang , Joel H. Saltz

We present a methodology for modeling the joint ionizing impact due to a "simple X-ray population" (SXP) and its corresponding simple stellar population (SSP), where "simple" refers to a single age and metallicity population. We construct…