18 papers
Evidence for the First Globular Cluster Stellar Stream beyond the Milky Way
Julie Kiel Holm, Sarah Pearson, Jacob Nibauer +5
The dark matter content of ultra-diffuse galaxies is the subject of considerable debate. Stellar streams, which form when a host galaxy tidally strips stars from an orbiting stella…
ShuffleFlow: Scalable Posterior Inference for Bayesian Inverse Imaging
Tianao Li, Tjitske Starkenburg, Yu Sun +1
Variational inference (VI) is a powerful method for principled posterior inference for scientific inverse imaging. VI learns the posterior distribution, often with a flow-based net…
Dancing Streams In Merging Halos: Stellar Streams in a MW--LMC-like merger
Sachi Weerasooriya, Tjitske Starkenburg, Emily C. Cunningham +1
Stellar streams -- formed from tidally stripped globular clusters or dwarf galaxies -- are sensitive tracers of a galaxy's accretion history and gravitational potential. While nume…
Introducing sapphire: Towards Hybrid Physics-Informed, Data-Driven Modeling of Galaxy Formation
Viraj Pandya, Greg L. Bryan, T. Lucas Makinen +18
Semi-analytic models (SAMs) have been treating galaxy populations as dynamical systems for years, but their evolution equations remain poorly constrained. We introduce…
Modeling Globular Cluster Stellar Streams with a Basis-Expansion N-body Code
Brian T. Cook, Kerwann Tep, Carl L. Rodriguez +6
Globular cluster stellar streams probe galaxy-formation processes and can potentially reveal the distribution of dark matter in galaxies. In many theoretical studies, streams are m…
Machine Learning Methods for Stellar Collisions. I. Predicting Outcomes of SPH Simulations
Elena González Prieto, James C. Lombardi, Sanaea C. Rose +7
Stellar collisions can occur frequently in dense cluster environments, and play a crucial role in producing exotic phenomena from blue stragglers in globular clusters to high-energ…