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20162026
most citedDamped Lyman-alpha Absorbers from Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR16Q with Gaussian processes

31 citations · 177 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.AI2026

FLARE MCMC: Fidelity-based Layer-Adaptive REcursive proposals for MCMC

Harini Venkatesan, Christian Shelton, Ming-Feng Ho +2

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) requires only the ability to evaluate the likelihood, making it a common technique for inference in complex models. However, it can have a slow mixi…

astro-ph.CO2026

DESI DR2 Results IV: Alcock-Paczyński Measurements from the Lyman Alpha Forest and Cosmological Constraints

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +152

We present Alcock-Paczyński (AP) measurements from the full shape of Lyman- (Ly) forest correlation functions measured from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy S…

astro-ph.CO2025

Small-scale Lyman alpha forest cosmology with PRIYA: Constraints from XQ100 and KODIAQ-SQUAD one-dimensional flux power spectra

Ming-Feng Ho, Mahdi Qezlou, Simeon Bird +4

We present a new cosmological analysis of the small-scale Lyman alpha forest 1D flux power spectrum (P1D) using high-resolution quasar spectra from XQ100 and KODIAQ-SQUAD, interpre…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Design and optimization of neural networks for multifidelity cosmological emulation

Yanhui Yang, Simeon Bird, Ming-Feng Ho +1

Accurate and efficient simulation-based emulators are essential for interpreting cosmological survey data down to nonlinear scales. Multifidelity emulation techniques reduce simula…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Ten-dimensional neural network emulator for the nonlinear matter power spectrum

Yanhui Yang, Simeon Bird, Ming-Feng Ho +1

We present GokuNEmu, a ten-dimensional neural network emulator for the nonlinear matter power spectrum, designed to support next-generation cosmological analyses. Built on the Goku…

astro-ph.GA2025

Hints of an Anomalous Lens Population towards the Galactic Bulge

Scott E. Perkins, Peter McGill, William A. Dawson +4

The dark and dynamic parts of the Galaxy, including the bulk shape and movement of the Galactic Bulge and characteristics of dark compact object populations, such as a hypothetical…

astro-ph.CO2025

Ten-parameter simulation suite for cosmological emulation beyond CDM

Yanhui Yang, Simeon Bird, Ming-Feng Ho

We present Goku, a suite of cosmological -body simulations, and the corresponding 10-dimensional emulator, GokuEmu, for the nonlinear matter power spectrum. The simulations span…

astro-ph.SR2024

On Finding Black Holes in Photometric Microlensing Surveys

Zofia Kaczmarek, Peter McGill, Scott E. Perkins +5

There are expected to be millions of isolated black holes in the Galaxy resulting from the death of massive stars. Measuring the abundance and properties of this remnant population…

astro-ph.HE2024

Investigating the mixing between two black hole populations in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA GWTC-3

Ming-Feng Ho, Scott Ellis Perkins, Simeon Bird +4

We introduce a population model to analyze the mixing between hypothesised power-law and Gaussian bump black hole populations in the latest gravitational wave cat…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Astrometric Microlensing by Primordial Black Holes with The Roman Space Telescope

James Fardeen, Peter McGill, Scott E. Perkins +5

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) could explain some fraction of dark matter and shed light on many areas of early-universe physics. Despite over half a century of research interest, a…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 12 cited

Disentangling the Black Hole Mass Spectrum with Photometric Microlensing Surveys

Scott Ellis Perkins, Peter McGill, William Dawson +8

From the formation mechanisms of stars and compact objects to nuclear physics, modern astronomy frequently leverages surveys to understand populations of objects to answer fundamen…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Forecast Cosmological Constraints with the 1D Wavelet Scattering Transform and the Lyman- forest

Hurum Maksora Tohfa, Simeon Bird, Ming-Feng Ho +2

We make forecasts for the constraining power of the 1D Wavelet Scattering Transform (WST) when used with a Lyman- forest cosmology survey. Using mock simulations and a Fisher ma…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 27 cited

Cosmological Constraints from the eBOSS Lyman- Forest using the PRIYA Simulations

M. A. Fernandez, Simeon Bird, Ming-Feng Ho

We present new cosmological parameter constraints from the eBOSS Lyman- forest survey. We use a new theoretical model and likelihood based on the PRIYA simulation suite. PRIYA i…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 28 cited

PRIYA: A New Suite of Lyman-alpha Forest Simulations for Cosmology

Simeon Bird, Martin Fernandez, Ming-Feng Ho +6

We present the PRIYA suite of cosmological simulations, based on the code and hydrodynamic model of the ASTRID simulation, and designed for cosmological analyses of the Lyman- f…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

MF-Box: Multi-fidelity and multi-scale emulation for the matter power spectrum

Ming-Feng Ho, Simeon Bird, Martin A. Fernandez +1

We introduce MF-Box, an extended version of MFEmulator, designed as a fast surrogate for power spectra, trained using N-body simulation suites from various box sizes and particle l…

astro-ph.GA2023

Machine Learning Uncovers the Universe's Hidden Gems: A Comprehensive Catalogue of CIV Absorption Lines in SDSS DR12

Reza Monadi, Ming-Feng Ho, Kathy L. Cooksey +1

We assemble the largest CIV absorption line catalogue to date, leveraging machine learning, specifically Gaussian processes, to remove the need for visual inspection for detecting…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 12 cited

A Multi-Fidelity Emulator for the Lyman- Forest Flux Power Spectrum

M. A. Fernandez, Ming-Feng Ho, Simeon Bird

In this work we extend our recently developed multi-fidelity emulation technique to the simulated Lyman- forest flux power spectrum. Multi-fidelity emulation allows interpolatio…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 29 cited

Multi-Fidelity Emulation for the Matter Power Spectrum using Gaussian Processes

Ming-Feng Ho, Simeon Bird, Christian R. Shelton

We present methods for emulating the matter power spectrum by combining information from cosmological -body simulations at different resolutions. An emulator allows estimation o…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 31 cited

Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers from Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR16Q with Gaussian processes

Ming-Feng Ho, Simeon Bird, Roman Garnett

We present a new catalogue of Damped Lyman- absorbers from SDSS DR16Q, as well as new estimates of their statistical properties. Our estimates are computed with the Gaussian pro…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 3 cited

Automated Measurement of Quasar Redshift with a Gaussian Process

Leah Fauber, Ming-Feng Ho, Simeon Bird +3

We develop an automated technique to measure quasar redshifts in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Our technique is an exte…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 22 cited

Detecting Multiple DLAs per Spectrum in SDSS DR12 with Gaussian Processes

Ming-Feng Ho, Simeon Bird, Roman Garnett

We present a revised version of our automated technique using Gaussian processes (GPs) to detect Damped Lyman- absorbers (DLAs) along quasar (QSO) sightlines. The main improveme…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 1 cited

Large-scale acoustic peak shift in the Planck CMB data

Ming-Feng Ho, Lung-Yih Chiang

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies encode the history of the universe, which manifest itself in the angular power spectrum. We test the angular power spectr…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 1 cited

AMiBA: Cluster Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Observations with the Expanded 13-Element Array

Kai-Yang Lin, Hiroaki Nishioka, Fu-Cheng Wang +35

The Yuan-Tseh Lee Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy (AMiBA) is a co-planar interferometer array operating at a wavelength of 3mm to measure the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZ…