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The mass composition of high energy cosmic rays above $10^{17}$ eV is a crucial issue to solve some open questions in astrophysics such as the acceleration and propagation mechanisms. Unfortunately, the standard procedures to identify the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Catalani , J. A. Chinellato , V. de Souza , J. Takahashi , G. M. S. Vasconcelos

Machine learning (ML) has often been applied to space weather (SW) problems in recent years. SW originates from solar perturbations and is comprised of the resulting complex variations they cause within the systems between the Sun and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Richard J. Licata , Piyush M. Mehta

Context. Several authors predicted an outburst of the Draconid meteor shower in 2018, but with an uncertain level of activity. Aims. Optical meteor observations were used to derive the population and mass indices, flux, and radiant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 Denis Vida , Margaret Campbell-Brown , Peter G. Brown , Auriane Egal , Michael J. Mazur

Cosmological constraints using weak gravitational lensing measurements from the Roman Space Telescope will require a powerful method for modelling uncertainties in the galaxy redshift distribution. In this work, we use an optimized version…

Luminous efficiency is a necessary parameter for determining meteoroid mass from optical emission. Despite this importance, it is very poorly known, with previous results varying by up to two orders of magnitude for a given speed. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Dilini Subasinghe , Margaret Campbell-Brown

Physics parameterizations are often needed for numerical weather prediction (NWP) of precipitation forecast. This is mainly because the resolutions of most computational atmospheric models are not fine enough to explicitly resolve sub-grid…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-06-19 Khanh Hung Mai , Duc Le , Kazuo Saito , Tomizawa Futo , Yohei Sawada

Peak counts have been shown to be an excellent tool to extract the non-Gaussian part of the weak lensing signal. Recently, we developped a fast stochastic forward model to predict weak-lensing peak counts. Our model is able to reconstruct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-16 Chieh-An Lin , Martin Kilbinger

The statistics of peaks in weak lensing convergence maps is a promising tool to investigate both the properties of dark matter haloes and constrain the cosmological parameters. We study how the number of detectable peaks and its scaling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 V. F. Cardone , S. Camera , M. Sereno , G. Covone , R. Maoli , R. Scaramella

A comprehensive new approach is presented for deriving probability densities of physical properties characterizing lens or source that constitute an observed galactic microlensing event. While previously encountered problems are overcome,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Dominik

The luminous efficiency of meteors is poorly known, but critical for determining the meteoroid mass. We present an uncertainty analysis of the luminous efficiency as determined by the classical ablation equations, and suggest a possible…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-28 Dilini Subasinghe , Margaret Campbell-Brown , Edward Stokan

Photometric redshift estimation is an indispensable tool of precision cosmology. One problem that plagues the use of this tool in the era of large-scale sky surveys is that the bright galaxies that are selected for spectroscopic observation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-18 Peter E. Freeman , Rafael Izbicki , Ann B. Lee

Multiple high precision $\beta$-decay measurements are being carried out these days on various nuclei, in search of beyond the Standard Model signatures. These measurements necessitate accurate standard model theoretical predictions to be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Ayala Glick-Magid , Doron Gazit

Turbulence plays a major role in the formation and evolution of molecular clouds. The problem is that turbulent velocities are convolved with the density of an observed region. To correct for this convolution, we investigate the relation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Julia Roman-Duval , Christoph Federrath , Christopher Brunt , Mark Heyer , James Jackson , Ralf Klessen

Learning-based approaches to verifying unknown Markov decision processes (MDPs) often employ uncertain MDPs. These models use, for example, confidence intervals to capture transition uncertainty and allow synthesis of policies that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yannik Schnitzer , Alessandro Abate , David Parker

Cosmological parameters can be measured by comparing peculiar velocities with those predicted from a galaxy density field. Previous work has tested the accuracy of this approach with N-body simulations, but generally on idealised mock…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Amber M. Hollinger , Michael J. Hudson

Methods for anomaly detection of new physics processes are often limited to low-dimensional spaces due to the difficulty of learning high-dimensional probability densities. Particularly at the constituent level, incorporating desirable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-06 Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman

Explicit quantification of uncertainty in engineering simulations is being increasingly used to inform robust and reliable design practices. In the aerospace industry, computationally-feasible analyses for design optimization purposes often…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-13 Jayant Mukhopadhaya , Brian T. Whitehead , John F. Quindlen , Juan J. Alonso

Neglecting small fragments in space debris evolutionary models can lead to a significant underestimation of the collision risk for operational satellites. However, when scaling down to the millimeter range, the debris population grows to…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Lorenzo Giudici , Juan Luis Gonzalo , Camilla Colombo

Metallic foams are crucial to many emerging applications, among them shielding against hypervelocity impacts caused by micrometeoroids and orbital debris. The variability of properties at feature-scale and mesoscale lengths originating from…

Despite ablation and drag processes associated with atmospheric entry of meteoroids were a subject of intensive study over the last century, little attention was devoted to interpret the observed fireball terminal height. This is a key…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-09 Manuel Moreno-Ibáñez , Maria Gritsevich , Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez