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6 papers

astro-ph.EP2025

Inferring Planet and Disk Parameters from Protoplanetary Disk Images Using a Variational Autoencoder

Sayed Shafaat Mahmud, Sayantan Auddy, Neal Turner +1

Dust-continuum observations of many protoplanetary disks reveal rings and gaps that are widely interpreted as evidence of ongoing planet formation. Here we present the first framew…

astro-ph.GA2025

From Images to Physics: Probabilistic Inference of Galaxy Parameters and Emission Lines via VAE & Normalizing Flows

Adiba Amira Siddiqa, Sayed Shafaat Mahmud, Rafael Martinez-Galarza

We introduce a Variational Autoencoder (VAE)--Normalizing Flow (NF) framework for rapid probabilistic inference of galaxy properties and emission line fluxes at from S…

astro-ph.IM2025

Neural Network identification of Dark Star Candidates. II. Spectroscopy

Adiba Amira Siddiqa, Sayed Shafaat Mahmud, Cosmin Ilie

Some of the first stars in the Universe might be powered by Dark Matter (DM) annihilations, rather than nuclear fusion. Those objects, i.e. Dark stars (DS), offer a unique window i…

astro-ph.CO2025

Neural Network identification of Dark Star Candidates. I. Photometry

Sayed Shafaat Mahmud, Adiba Amira Siddiqa, Cosmin Ilie

The formation of the first stars in the universe could be significantly impacted by the effects of Dark Matter (DM). Namely, if DM is in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Part…

astro-ph.EP2025

VADER: A Variational Autoencoder to Infer Planetary Masses and Gas-Dust Disk Properties Around Young Stars

Sayed Shafaat Mahmud, Sayantan Auddy, Neal Turner +1

We present \textbf{VADER} (Variational Autoencoder for Disks Embedded with Rings), for inferring both planet mass and global disk properties from high-resolution ALMA dust continuu…

astro-ph.CO2025

Spectroscopic Supermassive Dark Star candidates

Cosmin Ilie, Sayed Shafaat Mahmud, Jillian Paulin +1

Dark Stars, i.e. early stars composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium but powered by Dark Matter, could form in zero metallicity clouds located close to the center of high r…