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Obtaining reliable, matched photometry for galaxies imaged by different observatories represents a key challenge in the era of wide-field surveys spanning more than several hundred square degrees. Methods such as flux fitting, profile…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kevin Bundy , David W. Hogg , Tim D. Higgs , Robert C. Nichol , Naoki Yasuda , Karen L. Masters , Dustin Lang , David A. Wake

Accurate and reliable photometric redshift determination is one of the key aspects for wide-field photometric surveys. Determination of photometric redshift for galaxies, has been traditionally solved by use of machine-learning and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 M. Garcia-Fernandez

We present a new method for photometering objects in galaxy clusters. We introduce a mode-filtering technique for removing spatially variable backgrounds, improving both detection and photometric accuracy (roughly halving the scatter in the…

We introduce a new method to determine galaxy cluster membership based solely on photometric properties. We adopt a machine learning approach to recover a cluster membership probability from galaxy photometric parameters and finally derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 P. A. A. Lopes , A. L. B. Ribeiro

We study the influence of the environment on the evolution of galaxies by investigating the luminosity function (LF) of galaxies of different morphological types and colours at different environmental density levels. We construct the LFs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 E. Tempel , E. Saar , L. J. Liivamägi , A. Tamm , J. Einasto , M. Einasto , V. Müller

Forecasting conditional stochastic nonlinear dynamical systems is a fundamental challenge repeatedly encountered across the biological and physical sciences. While flow-based models can impressively predict the temporal evolution of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Adam P. Generale , Andreas E. Robertson , Surya R. Kalidindi

Most statistical inference from cosmic large-scale structure relies on two-point statistics, i.e.\ on the galaxy-galaxy correlation function (2PCF) or the power spectrum. These statistics capture the full information encoded in the Fourier…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-09 Kamran Ali , Danail Obreschkow , Cullan Howlett , Camille Bonvin , Claudio Llinares , Felipe Oliveira Franco , Chris Power

The manner in which the stellar initial mass function (IMF) scales with global galaxy properties is under debate. We use two hydrodynamical, cosmological simulations to predict possible trends for two self-consistent variable IMF…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-22 Christopher Barber , Joop Schaye , Robert A. Crain

Recent studies with SDSS have shown that a statistically significant non-zero mutual information between morphology and environment persists up to several tens of Mpc, which awaits an explanation. Galaxies in different environments acquire…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-22 Snehasish Bhattacharjee , Biswajit Pandey , Suman Sarkar

We present a simple method for evaluating the nonlinear biasing function of galaxies from a redshift survey. The nonlinear biasing is characterized by the conditional mean of the galaxy density fluctuation given the underlying mass density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yair Sigad , Enzo Branchini , Avishai Dekel

In this paper, we present spectrophotometric models for galaxies of different morphological type whose spectral energy distributions (SEDs) take into account the effect of dust in absorbing UV-optical light and re-emitting it in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lorenzo Piovan , Rosaria Tantalo , Cesare Chiosi

We fit model spectral energy distributions to each pixel in 67 nearby (<z>=0.0057) galaxies using broadband photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and GALEX. For each galaxy, we compare the stellar mass derived by summing the mass of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Robert Sorba , Marcin Sawicki

Widefield surveys of the sky probe many clustered scalar fields -- such as galaxy counts, lensing potential, gas pressure, etc. -- that are sensitive to different cosmological and astrophysical processes. Our ability to constrain such…

We present new predictions for the galaxy three-point correlation function (3PCF) using high-resolution dissipationless cosmological simulations of a flat LCDM Universe which resolve galaxy-size halos and subhalos. We create realistic mock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Felipe Marin , Risa Wechsler , Joshua Frieman , Robert Nichol

Flow Matching has emerged as a powerful framework for learning continuous transformations between distributions, enabling high-fidelity generative modeling. This work introduces Symmetrical Flow Matching (SymmFlow), a new formulation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Francisco Caetano , Christiaan Viviers , Peter H. N. De With , Fons van der Sommen

We present a forward modeling framework for estimating galaxy redshift distributions from photometric surveys. Our forward model is composed of: a detailed population model describing the intrinsic distribution of physical characteristics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Justin Alsing , Hiranya Peiris , Daniel Mortlock , Joel Leja , Boris Leistedt

Obtaining accurately calibrated redshift distributions of photometric samples is one of the great challenges in photometric surveys like LSST, Euclid, HSC, KiDS, and DES. We present an inference methodology that combines the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-09 M. M. Rau , C. B. Morrison , S. J. Schmidt , S. Wilson , R. Mandelbaum , Y. Y. Mao

We present the first cosmological constraints using only the observed photometry of galaxies. Villaescusa-Navarro et al. (2022; arXiv:2201.02202) recently demonstrated that the internal physical properties of a single simulated galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-16 ChangHoon Hahn , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Peter Melchior , Romain Teyssier

Gas plays an important role in many processes in galaxy formation and evolution, but quantifying the importance of gas has been hindered by the challenge to measure gas masses for large samples of galaxies. Datasets of direct atomic and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Dirk Scholte , Amélie Saintonge