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Causal Reversal in the $M_\unicode{x25CF}\unicode{x2013}Ï_0$ Relation: Implications for High-Redshift Supermassive Black Hole Mass Estimates
Benjamin L. Davis, Saakshi More, Zehao Jin +3
The nascent methodology of applying the principles of causal discovery to astrophysical data has produced affirming results about deeply held theories concerning the causal nature…
Where Have All the Little Red Dots Gone? Supermassive Black Hole Binary Dynamics and its Impact on Galaxy Properties
Fazeel Mahmood Khan, Benjamin L. Davis, Andrea Valerio Macciò +1
Recent James Webb Space Telescope observations have revealed a peculiar class of galaxies at redshifts , characterized by extremely high central stellar densities and…
Causal Discovery in Astrophysics: Unraveling Supermassive Black Hole and Galaxy Coevolution
Zehao Jin, Mario Pasquato, Benjamin L. Davis +9
Correlation does not imply causation, but patterns of statistical association between variables can be exploited to infer a causal structure (even with purely observational data) w…
Beyond Causal Discovery for Astronomy: Learning Meaningful Representations with Independent Component Analysis
Zehao Jin, Mario Pasquato, Benjamin L. Davis +2
We present the first steps toward applying causal representation learning to astronomy. Following up on previous work that introduced causal discovery to the field for the first ti…
HELLO project: High- Evolution of Large and Luminous Objects
Stefan Waterval, Andrea V. Macciò, Tobias Buck +6
We present the High- Evolution of Large and Luminous Objects (HELLO) project, a set of high-resolution cosmological simulations aimed to study Milky Way analogues ($M…
Identification of Intermediate-mass Black Hole Candidates Among a Sample of Sd Galaxies
Benjamin L. Davis, Alister W. Graham, Roberto Soria +4
We analyzed images of every northern hemisphere Sd galaxy listed in the Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies (RC3) with a relatively face-on inclination (). Spe…