Cool Embeddings: Predicting Galaxy Cluster Cooling Times in IllustrisTNG and TNG-Cluster with AstroCLIP

Rawan Karam, Carter Lee Rhea, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo +4

Foundation models trained on optical astronomical data have not previously been applied to X-ray cluster thermodynamics. We show that embeddings from AstroCLIP, a contrastive visio…