Publications (6)
The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Shunsuke Adachi +280
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough…
Using convolutional neural networks to predict galaxy metallicity from three-color images
John F. Wu, Steven Boada
We train a deep residual convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict the gas-phase metallicity () of galaxies derived from spectroscopic information ($Z \equiv 12 + \log(\rm O…
The Role of Machine Learning in the Next Decade of Cosmology
Michelle Ntampaka, Camille Avestruz, Steven Boada +27
In recent years, machine learning (ML) methods have remarkably improved how cosmologists can interpret data. The next decade will bring new opportunities for data-driven cosmologic…
High Confidence Optical Confirmations Among the High Signal-to-Noise Planck Cluster Candidates
Steven Boada, John P. Hughes, Felipe Menanteau +3
We report on newly identified galaxy clusters from the high signal-to-noise (-) end of the second all-sky \textit{Planck} Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) catalog (PSZ2). The cluste…
The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Peter Ade, James Aguirre +247
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the scient…
The Role of Bulge Formation in the Homogenization of Stellar Populations at as revealed by Internal Color Dispersion in CANDELS
Steven Boada, V. Tilvi, C. Papovich +13
We use data from the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey to study how the spatial variation in the stellar populations of galaxies relate to the formatio…