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We present a detailed comparison between numerical cosmological hydrodynamic zoom simulations and semi-analytic models (SAMs) run within merger trees extracted from the simulations. The high-resolution simulations represent 48 individual…

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We present a novel graph-based machine learning classifier for identifying the dark matter cosmic web environments of galaxies. Large galaxy surveys offer comprehensive statistical views of how galaxy properties are shaped by large-scale…

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Galaxy formation and evolution models, such as semi-analytic models, are powerful theoretical tools for predicting how galaxies evolve across cosmic time. These models follow the evolution of galaxies based on the halo assembly histories…

We make use of neural networks to accelerate the calculation of power spectra required for the analysis of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing data. For modern perturbation theory codes, evaluation time for a single cosmology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Joseph DeRose , Shi-Fan Chen , Martin White , Nickolas Kokron

We present a graph neural network (GNN) based surrogate framework for molecular dynamics simulations that directly predicts atomic displacements and learns the underlying evolution operator of an atomistic system. Unlike conventional…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-29 Judah Immanuel , Avik Mahata , Aniruddha Maiti

Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques have shown great potential as a surrogate model of expensive physics simulation, with demonstrated ability to make fast predictions, albeit at the expense of accuracy in some cases. For many…

We model the galaxy formation in a series of high-resolution N-body simulations using the semi-analytical approach. Unlike many earlier investigations based on semi-analytical models, we make use of the subhalos resolved in the $N$-body…

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We build a theoretical picture of how the light from galaxies evolves across cosmic time. In particular, we predict the evolution of the galaxy spectral energy distribution (SED) by carefully integrating the star formation and metal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-23 Dian Triani , Darren Croton , Manodeep Sinha

We compare the predictions of three independently developed semi-analytic galaxy formation models that are being used to aid in the interpretation of results from the CANDELS survey. These models are each applied to the same set of halo…

Galaxies play a key role in our endeavor to understand how structure formation proceeds in the Universe. For any precision study of cosmology or galaxy formation, there is a strong demand for huge sets of realistic mock galaxy catalogs,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-16 Chen-Yu Chuang , Christian Kragh Jespersen , Yen-Ting Lin , Shirley Ho , Shy Genel

When following the growth of structure in the Universe, we propose replacing merger trees with merger graphs, in which haloes can both merge and split into separate pieces. We show that this leads to smoother mass growth and eliminates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-11 William J. Roper , Peter A. Thomas , Chaichalit Srisawat

We present an artificial neural network design in which past and present-day properties of dark matter halos and their local environment are used to predict time-resolved star formation histories and stellar metallicity histories of central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Harry George Chittenden , Rita Tojeiro

We use a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation calculated with Enzo and the semi-analytic galaxy formation model (SAM) GAMMA to address the chemical evolution of dwarf galaxies in the early universe. The long-term goal of the project is to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Benoit Côté , Devin Silvia , Brian W. O'Shea , Britton Smith , John H. Wise

Dark matter halo merger trees are now routinely extracted from cosmological simulations of structure formation. These trees are frequently used as inputs to semi-analytic models of galaxy formation to provide the backbone within which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Andrew J. Benson , Stefano Borgani , Gabriella De Lucia , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Pierluigi Monaco

In recent years, various artificial intelligence-based surrogate models have been proposed to provide rapid manufacturability predictions of material forming processes. However, traditional AI-based surrogate models, typically built with…

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We propose SAM-Road, an adaptation of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) for extracting large-scale, vectorized road network graphs from satellite imagery. To predict graph geometry, we formulate it as a dense semantic segmentation task,…

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Accurate modeling of galaxy formation in a hierarchical, cold dark matter universe requires the use of sufficiently high-resolution merger trees to obtain convergence in the predicted properties of galaxies. When semi-analytic galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Andrew J. Benson , Chris Cannella , Shaun Cole

We study dwarf galaxy formation at high redshift ($z\ge5$) using a suite of high- resolution, cosmological hydrodynamic simulations and a semi-analytic model (SAM). We focus on gas accretion, cooling and star formation in this work by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-07 Yuxiang Qin , Alan R. Duffy , Simon J. Mutch , Gregory B. Poole , Paul M. Geil , Andrei Mesinger , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

We use sparse regression methods (SRM) to build accurate and explainable models that predict the stellar mass of central and satellite galaxies as a function of properties of their host dark matter halos. SRM are machine learning algorithms…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 M. Icaza-Lizaola , Richard G. Bower , Peder Norberg , Shaun Cole , Matthieu Schaller

A method of deriving and using merging history trees of dark matter galaxy haloes directly from pure gravity N-body simulations is presented. This combines the full non-linearity of N-body simulations with the flexibility of the…