18 papers
Numerous bow shocks in the outer Helix Nebula
Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, William P. Bowman +5
Near the end of their lives, low- and intermediate-mass stars expel metal-enriched material in winds and outflows, ultimately producing planetary nebulae (PNe). The ejected materia…
Predicting the Kinematics of the Cold Circumgalactic Medium from its Morphology using Convolutional Neural Networks
Connor Jennings, Earl P. Bellinger, Imad Pasha +2
We present a novel approach to predicting plane-of-sky velocities of cold gas clouds in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies. The method uses a convolutional neural network…
A Third Galaxy Missing Dark Matter along a Trail of Galaxies in the NGC 1052 Field
Michael A. Keim, Pieter van Dokkum, Zili Shen +2
While most dwarf galaxies are strongly dark matter dominated, two remarkable objects in the NGC 1052 field, DF2 and DF4, appear to lack dark matter. DF2 and DF4 were recently found…
Hyrax: An Extensible Framework for Rapid ML Experimentation and Unsupervised Discovery in the Era of Rubin, Roman, and Euclid
Aritra Ghosh, Drew Oldag, Michael Tauraso +29
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Roman Space Telescope, Euclid, and other next-generation surveys will deliver imaging, spectroscopic, and time-domain data at scales that inc…
Using Symbolic Regression to Emulate the Radial Fourier Transform of the Sérsic profile for Fast, Accurate and Differentiable Galaxy Profile Fitting
Tim B. Miller, Imad Pasha
Galaxy profile fitting is a ubiquitous technique that provides the backbone for photometric and morphological measurements in modern extragalactic surveys. A recent innovation in p…
dfcosmic: A Python package for cosmic ray removal
Carter Lee Rhea, Pieter van Dokkum, Steven R. Janssens +5
Astronomical images often show sharp features that are caused by cosmic ray (CR) hits, hot pixels, or non-Gaussian noise. L.A.Cosmic (van Dokkum 2001) is a widely used edge detecti…