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We present a simulation-based inference framework using a convolutional neural network to infer dynamical masses of galaxy clusters from their observed 3D projected phase-space distribution, which consists of the projected galaxy positions…

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Clustering of motion trajectories is highly relevant for human-robot interactions as it allows the anticipation of human motions, fast reaction to those, as well as the recognition of explicit gestures. Further, it allows automated analysis…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Christoph Zelch , Jan Peters , Oskar von Stryk

We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky-Way-mass galaxies from the FIRE project to evaluate various strategies for estimating the mass of a galaxy's stellar halo from deep, integrated-light images. We find good agreement…

The problem of estimating the total mass of a visual binary when its orbit is incomplete is treated with Bayesian methods. The posterior mean of a mass estimator is approximated by a triple integral over orbital period, time of periastron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 L. B. Lucy

The abundance of clusters of galaxies is highly sensitive to the late-time evolution of the matter distribution, since clusters form at the highest density peaks. However, the 3D cluster mass cannot be inferred without deprojecting the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Stijn N. B. Debackere , Henk Hoekstra , Joop Schaye , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib

We conducted a simple experiment in which one pedestrian passed through a crowded area and measured the body-rotational angular velocity with commercial tablets. Then, we developed a new method for predicting crowd density by applying the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-20 Koki Nagao , Daichi Yanagisawa , Katsuhiro Nishinari

Advancements in theoretical simulations of mass gap objects, particularly those resulting from neutron star mergers and massive pulsars, play a crucial role in addressing the challenges of measuring neutron star radii. In the light of this,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-03 S. K. Maurya , A. Errehymy , Ksh. Newton Singh , G. Mustafa , Saibal Ray

We study the bias and scatter in mass measurements of galaxy clusters resulting from fitting a spherically-symmetric Navarro, Frenk & White model to the reduced tangential shear profile measured in weak lensing observations. The reduced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-23 Matthew R. Becker , Andrey V. Kravtsov

Results of precise measurements of the periods of pulsars discovered in the central regions of globular clusters are shown to be approaching the capabilities of testing the existence of a central black hole. For example, in the case of M 15…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 F. De Paolis , V. G. Gurzadyan , G. Ingrosso

We show that the mass of a dark matter halo can be inferred from the dynamical status of its satellite galaxies. Using 9 dark-matter simulations of halos like the Milky Way (MW), we find that the present-day substructures in each halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Zhao-Zhou Li , Y. P. Jing , Yong-Zhong Qian , Zhen Yuan , Dong-Hai Zhao

We present a study of the mixing properties of the simulated intra cluster Medium, using tracers particles that are advected by the gas flow during the evolution of cosmic structures. Using a sample of seven galaxy clusters (with masses in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 F. Vazza , C. Gheller , G. Brunetti

The challenge of obtaining galaxy cluster masses is increasingly being addressed by multiwavelength measurements. As scatters in measured cluster masses are often sourced by properties of or around the clusters themselves, correlations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Yookyung Noh , J. D. Cohn

Aims: we propose a gravitational potential method (GPM) as a supercluster finder based on the analysis of the local gravitational potential distribution measured by fast and simple algorithm applied to a spatial distribution of mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-16 Giovanni C. Baiesi Pillastrini

The technique of weak-lensing aperture mass densitometry, so called the zeta-statistic, has recently been popular in actual observations for measurement of individual cluster mass. It has however been anticipated that the line-of-sight…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jun-Mein Wu , Keiichi Umetsu , Chia-Hung Chien , Tzihong Chiueh

Dark matter haloes are biased tracers of the underlying dark matter distribution. We use a simple model to provide a relation between the abundance of dark matter haloes and their spatial distribution on large scales. Our model shows that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ravi K. Sheth , Giuseppe Tormen

The surface mass density of a cluster of galaxies, and thus its total mass, can be estimated from its lens magnification. The magnification can be determined from the variation in number counts of its background galaxies. In the weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eelco van Kampen

The simplest scheme for predicting real galaxy properties after performing a dark matter simulation is to rank order the real systems by stellar mass and the simulated systems by halo mass and then simply assume monotonicity - that the more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-22 Stephanie Tonnesen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We present the first measurement of the mass function of galaxy clusters based directly on cluster masses derived from observations of weak gravitational lensing. To investigate the degree of sample incompleteness resulting from the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-06 H. Dahle

(Abridged) We introduce a novel technique to construct spatially resolved maps of stellar mass surface density in galaxies based on optical and near IR imaging. We use optical/NIR colour(s) to infer effective stellar mass-to-light ratios…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 Stefano Zibetti , Stephane Charlot , Hans-Walter Rix

Estimating black hole masses of blazars is still a big challenge. Because of the contamination of jets, using the previously suggested size -- continuum luminosity relation can overestimate the broad line region (BLR) size and black hole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Xue-Bing Wu , F. K. Liu , M. Z. Kong , R. Wang , J. L. Han