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Galaxy groups are essential for studying the distribution of matter on a large scale in redshift surveys and for deciphering the link between galaxy traits and their associated halos. In this work, we propose a widely applicable method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Juntao Ma , Jie Wang , Tianxiang Mao , Hongxiang Chen , Yuxi Meng , Xiaohu Yang , Qingyang Li

In this review, we describe our current understanding of cluster formation: from the general picture of collapse from initial density fluctuations in an expanding Universe to detailed simulations of cluster formation including the effects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrey Kravtsov , Stefano Borgani

I review recent progress in the study of the large-scale structure of the Universe through the distribution of clusters of galaxies, concentrating on new results using X-ray selected samples. After discussing the importance of understanding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Guzzo

Cosmological galaxy formation simulations are still limited by their spatial/mass resolution and cannot model from first principles some of the processes, like star formation, that are key in driving galaxy evolution. As a consequence they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-02 Andrea V. Macciò , Mohamad Ali-Dib , Pavle Vulanović , Hind Al Noori , Fabian Walter , Nico Krieger , Tobias Buck

Precise determination of galaxy cluster masses is crucial for establishing reliable mass-observable scaling relations in cluster cosmology. We employ graph neural networks (GNNs) to estimate galaxy cluster masses from radially sampled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Asif Iqbal , Subhabrata Majumdar , Elena Rasia , Gabriel W. Pratt , Daniel de Andres , Jean-Baptiste Melin , Weiguang Cui

Machine learning (ML) techniques, in particular supervised regression algorithms, are a promising new way to use multiple observables to predict a cluster's mass or other key features. To investigate this approach we use the \textsc{MACSIS}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Thomas J. Armitage , Scott T. Kay , David J. Barnes

We present a deep machine learning (ML) approach to constraining cosmological parameters with multi-wavelength observations of galaxy clusters. The ML approach has two components: an encoder that builds a compressed representation of each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Michelle Ntampaka , Alexey Vikhlinin

We present some early results from our deep imaging survey of galaxy clusters intended to detect and study intracluster light (ICL). From our observations to date, we find that ICL is common in galaxy clusters, and that substructure in the…

Galaxy clusters are important cosmological probes that have helped to establish the $\mathrm{\Lambda}$CDM paradigm as the standard model of cosmology. However, recent tensions between different types of high-accuracy data highlight the need…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Nikolaos Triantafyllou , Giorgos Korkidis , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Paolo Bonfini

Classification of galaxies is traditionally associated with their morphologies through visual inspection of images. The amount of data to come renders this task inhuman and Machine Learning (mainly Deep Learning) has been called to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-14 Didier Fraix-Burnet

Machine Learning methods will play a fundamental role in our ability to optimize the science output from the next generation of large scale surveys. Given the peculiarities of astronomical data, it is crucial that algorithms are adapted to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-08 Emille E. O. Ishida

I compare the mass values obtained with data taken from the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) radio interferometer system and from the Planck satellite. The former of these uses a Bayesian analysis pipeline that parameterises a cluster in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-13 Kamran Javid

Machine learning (ML) has become a key tool in astronomy, driving advancements in the analysis and interpretation of complex datasets from observations. This article reviews the application of ML techniques in the identification and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Guangping Li , Zujia Lu , Junzhi Wang , Zhao Wang

We recently developed a generalization of the halo model in order to describe the spatial clustering properties of each mass component in the Universe, including hot gas and stars. In this work we discuss the complementarity of the model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 C. Fedeli , E. Semboloni , M. Velliscig , M. Van Daalen , J. Schaye , H. Hoekstra

Well-calibrated scaling relations between the observable properties and the total masses of clusters of galaxies are important for understanding the physical processes that give rise to these relations. They are also a critical ingredient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Giodini , L. Lovisari , E. Pointecouteau , S. Ettori , T. H. Reiprich , H. Hoekstra

In this talk I focus on how the modelling of the mass-observable relation and the halo mass function can impact the accuracy and precision of cosmological constraints inferred from galaxy clusters. I present a new analysis of clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Laura Salvati

The morphology of a galaxy has been shown to encode the evolutionary history and correlates strongly with physical properties such as stellar mass, star formation rates and past merger events. While the majority of galaxies in the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-23 Clár-Bríd Tohill , Steven Bamford , Christopher Conselice

We present a machine-learning approach for estimating galaxy cluster masses from Chandra mock images. We utilize a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), a deep machine learning tool commonly used in image recognition tasks. The CNN is trained…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-20 M. Ntampaka , J. ZuHone , D. Eisenstein , D. Nagai , A. Vikhlinin , L. Hernquist , F. Marinacci , D. Nelson , R. Pakmor , A. Pillepich , P. Torrey , M. Vogelsberger

The number density of galaxy clusters across mass and redshift has been established as a powerful cosmological probe. Cosmological analyses with galaxy clusters traditionally employ scaling relations. However, many challenges arise from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 M. Kosiba , N. Cerardi , M. Pierre , F. Lanusse , C. Garrel , N. Werner , M. Shalak

The mass distribution of galaxy clusters can be determined from the study of the projected phase-space distribution of cluster galaxies. The main advantage of this method as compared to others, is that it allows determination of cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Andrea Biviano