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most citedSuperRAENN: A Semi-supervised Supernova Photometric Classification Pipeline Trained on Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey Supernovae

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astro-ph.CO2025

Estimating the triaxiality of massive clusters from 2D observables in MillenniumTNG with machine learning

Ana Maria Delgado, Michelle Ntampaka, Sownak Bose +7

Properties of massive galaxy clusters, such as mass abundance and concentration, are sensitive to cosmology, making cluster statistics a powerful tool for cosmological studies. How…

astro-ph.CO2024

A Multi-Wavelength Technique for Estimating Galaxy Cluster Mass Accretion Rates

John Soltis, Michelle Ntampaka, Benedikt Diemer +7

The mass accretion rate of galaxy clusters is a key factor in determining their structure, but a reliable observational tracer has yet to be established. We present a state-of-the-…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Reconstructing Galaxy Cluster Mass Maps using Score-based Generative Modeling

Alan Hsu, Matthew Ho, Joyce Lin +4

We present a novel approach to reconstruct gas and dark matter projected density maps of galaxy clusters using score-based generative modeling. Our diffusion model takes in mock SZ…

astro-ph.CO2024

LoVoCCS. II. Weak Lensing Mass Distributions, Red-Sequence Galaxy Distributions, and Their Alignment with the Brightest Cluster Galaxy in 58 Nearby X-ray-Luminous Galaxy Clusters

Shenming Fu, Ian Dell'Antonio, Zacharias Escalante +31

The Local Volume Complete Cluster Survey (LoVoCCS) is an on-going program to observe nearly a hundred low-redshift X-ray-luminous galaxy clusters (redshifts and X-ray…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 11 cited

Painting baryons onto N-body simulations of galaxy clusters with image-to-image deep learning

Urmila Chadayammuri, Michelle Ntampaka, John ZuHone +2

Galaxy cluster mass functions are a function of cosmology, but mass is not a direct observable, and systematic errors abound in all its observable proxies. Mass-free inference can…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 15 cited

Benchmarks and Explanations for Deep Learning Estimates of X-ray Galaxy Cluster Masses

Matthew Ho, John Soltis, Arya Farahi +3

We evaluate the effectiveness of deep learning (DL) models for reconstructing the masses of galaxy clusters using X-ray photometry data from next-generation surveys. We establish t…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 5 cited

A Machine Learning Approach to Enhancing eROSITA Observations

John Soltis, Michelle Ntampaka, John Wu +5

The eROSITA X-ray telescope, launched in 2019, is predicted to observe roughly 100,000 galaxy clusters. Follow-up observations of these clusters from Chandra, for example, will be…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 28 cited

The Dynamical Mass of the Coma Cluster from Deep Learning

Matthew Ho, Michelle Ntampaka, Markus Michael Rau +4

In 1933, Fritz Zwicky's famous investigations of the mass of the Coma cluster led him to infer the existence of dark matter \cite{1933AcHPh...6..110Z}. His fundamental discoveries…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 11 cited

Emulating Sunyaev-Zeldovich Images of Galaxy Clusters using Auto-Encoders

Tibor Rothschild, Daisuke Nagai, Han Aung +3

We develop a machine learning algorithm that generates high-resolution thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) maps of novel galaxy clusters given only halo mass and mass accretion rate. Th…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 31 cited

A deep learning view of the census of galaxy clusters in IllustrisTNG

Y. Su, Y. Zhang, G. Liang +8

The origin of the diverse population of galaxy clusters remains an unexplained aspect of large-scale structure formation and cluster evolution. We present a novel method of using X…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 34 cited

Using X-Ray Morphological Parameters to Strengthen Galaxy Cluster Mass Estimates via Machine Learning

Sheridan B. Green, Michelle Ntampaka, Daisuke Nagai +4

We present a machine learning approach for estimating galaxy cluster masses, trained using both Chandra and eROSITA mock X-ray observations of 2,041 clusters from the Magneticum si…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 44 cited

A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach to Cosmological Constraints From Galaxy Redshift Surveys

Michelle Ntampaka, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Sihan Yuan +1

We present a deep machine learning (ML)-based technique for accurately determining and from mock 3D galaxy surveys. The mock surveys are built from the AbacusCosmos sui…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 6 cited

Cluster Cosmology with the Velocity Distribution Function of the HeCS-SZ Sample

Michelle Ntampaka, Ken Rines, Hy Trac

We apply the Velocity Distribution Function (VDF) to a sample of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ)-selected clusters, and we report preliminary cosmological constraints in the - co…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 69 cited

A Robust and Efficient Deep Learning Method for Dynamical Mass Measurements of Galaxy Clusters

Matthew Ho, Markus Michael Rau, Michelle Ntampaka +3

We demonstrate the ability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to mitigate systematics in the virial scaling relation and produce dynamical mass estimates of galaxy clusters wi…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 36 cited

Machine Learning Applied to the Reionization History of the Universe in the 21 cm Signal

Paul La Plante, Michelle Ntampaka

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) features a rich interplay between the first luminous sources and the low-density gas of the intergalactic medium (IGM), where photons from these sou…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 90 cited

A Deep Learning Approach to Galaxy Cluster X-ray Masses

M. Ntampaka, J. ZuHone, D. Eisenstein +9

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…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 8 cited

The Velocity Distribution Function of Galaxy Clusters as a Cosmological Probe

M. Ntampaka, H. Trac, J. Cisewski +1

We present a new approach for quantifying the abundance of galaxy clusters and constraining cosmological parameters using dynamical measurements. In the standard method, galaxy lin…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 56 cited

Dynamical Mass Measurements of Contaminated Galaxy Clusters Using Machine Learning

M. Ntampaka, H. Trac, D. J. Sutherland +3

We study dynamical mass measurements of galaxy clusters contaminated by interlopers and show that a modern machine learning (ML) algorithm can predict masses by better than a facto…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 81 cited

A Machine Learning Approach for Dynamical Mass Measurements of Galaxy Clusters

Michelle Ntampaka, Hy Trac, Danica J. Sutherland +3

We present a modern machine learning approach for cluster dynamical mass measurements that is a factor of two improvement over using a conventional scaling relation. Different meth…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 32 cited

A First Look at creating mock catalogs with machine learning techniques

Xiaoying Xu, Shirley Ho, Hy Trac +3

We investigate machine learning (ML) techniques for predicting the number of galaxies (N_gal) that occupy a halo, given the halo's properties. These types of mappings are crucial f…