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The next generation of telescopes will acquire terabytes of image data on a nightly basis. Collectively, these large images will contain billions of interesting objects, which astronomers call sources. The astronomers' task is to construct…

Applications · Statistics 2009-10-29 David A. Friedenberg , Christopher R. Genovese

We developed a modification to the calculation of the two-point correlation function commonly used in the analysis of large scale structure in cosmology. An estimator of the two-point correlation function is constructed by contrasting the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Regina Demina , Sanha Cheong , Segev BenZvi , Otto Hindrichs

This paper studies the large-scale subspace clustering (LSSC) problem with million data points. Many popular subspace clustering methods cannot directly handle the LSSC problem although they have been considered as state-of-the-art methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Jun Li , Hongfu Liu , Zhiqiang Tao , Handong Zhao , Yun Fu

The process of identifying stars is integral toward stellar based orientation determination in spacecraft. Star identification involves matching points in an image of the sky with stars in an astronomical catalog. A unified framework for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Glenn Galvizo , Lipyeow Lim

I discuss an issue arising in analyzing data from astronomical surveys: accounting for measurement uncertainties in the properties of individual sources detected in a survey when making inferences about the entire population of sources.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas J. Loredo

We consider the statistical problem of catalogue matching from a machine learning perspective with the goal of producing probabilistic outputs, and using all available information. A framework is provided that unifies two existing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. J. Rohde , M. R. Gallagher , M. J. Drinkwater , K. A. Pimbblet

Point source localisation is generally modelled as a Lasso-type problem on measures. However, optimisation methods in non-Hilbert spaces, such as the space of Radon measures, are much less developed than in Hilbert spaces. Most numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Tuomo Valkonen

We present a robust and fast algorithm for performing astrometry and source cross-identification on two dimensional point lists, such as between a catalogue and an astronomical image, or between two images. The method is based on minimal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Andras Pal , Gaspar Bakos

Probabilistic programming has emerged as a powerful paradigm in statistics, applied science, and machine learning: by decoupling modelling from inference, it promises to allow modellers to directly reason about the processes generating…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-10 Maria I. Gorinova , Dave Moore , Matthew D. Hoffman

Telescopes are much more expensive than astronomers, so it is essential to minimize required sample sizes by using the most data-efficient statistical methods possible. However, the most commonly used model-independent techniques for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Charles L. Steinhardt , Adam S. Jermyn

Neural posterior estimation (NPE), a type of amortized variational inference, is a computationally efficient means of constructing probabilistic catalogs of light sources from astronomical images. To date, NPE has not been used to perform…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Aakash Patel , Tianqing Zhang , Camille Avestruz , Jeffrey Regier , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Multi-connected universe models with space identification scales smaller than the size of the observable universe produce topological images of cosmic sources. We generalise to locally hyperbolic spaces the crystallographic method, aimed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Jean-Philippe Uzan , Roland Lehoucq , Jean-Pierre Luminet

Not only source catalogs are extracted from astronomy observations. Their sky coverage is always carefully recorded and used in statistical analyses, such as correlation and luminosity function studies. Here we present a novel method for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-20 Dongwei Fan , Tamás Budavári , Alexander S. Szalay , Chenzhou Cui , Yongheng Zhao

We develop a novel statistical strong lensing approach to probe the cosmological parameters by exploiting multiple redshift image systems behind galaxies or galaxy clusters. The method relies on free-form mass inversion of strong lenses and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Lubini , M. Sereno , J. Coles , Ph. Jetzer , P. Saha

Source confusion has been a long-standing problem in the astronomical history. In the previous formulation, sources are assumed to be distributed homogeneously on the sky. This fundamental assumption is not realistic in many applications.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Takako T. Ishii

The matching of sources between photometric catalogues can lead to cases where objects of differing brightness are incorrectly assumed to be detections of the same source. The rejection of unphysical matches can be achieved through the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Tom J. Wilson , Tim Naylor

Diffusion generative models have excelled at diverse image generation and reconstruction tasks across fields. A less explored avenue is their application to discriminative tasks involving regression or classification problems. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Nayantara Mudur , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

The reconstruction of the unknown acoustic source is studied using the noisy multiple frequency data on a remote closed surface. Assume that the unknown source is coded in a spatial dependent piecewise constant function, whose support set…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Zhiliang Deng , Xiaomei Yang , Jiangfeng Huang

A grand challenge of the 21st century cosmology is to accurately estimate the cosmological parameters of our Universe. A major approach to estimating the cosmological parameters is to use the large-scale matter distribution of the Universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Junier Oliva , Sebastien Fromenteau , Layne C. Price , Shirley Ho , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos

Many astrophysical problems arising within the context of ultra-high energy cosmic rays, very-high energy gamma rays or neutrinos, require calculation of the flux produced by sources tracing the distribution of galaxies in the Universe. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hylke B. J. Koers , Peter Tinyakov