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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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astro-ph.IM2021

Self-supervised similarity search for large scientific datasets

George Stein, Peter Harrington, Jacqueline Blaum +2

We present the use of self-supervised learning to explore and exploit large unlabeled datasets. Focusing on 42 million galaxy images from the latest data release of the Dark Energy…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 54 cited

Mining for Strong Gravitational Lenses with Self-supervised Learning

George Stein, Jacqueline Blaum, Peter Harrington +2

We employ self-supervised representation learning to distill information from 76 million galaxy images from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Legacy Imaging Surveys' Data Re…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

Estimating Galactic Distances From Images Using Self-supervised Representation Learning

Md Abul Hayat, Peter Harrington, George Stein +2

We use a contrastive self-supervised learning framework to estimate distances to galaxies from their photometric images. We incorporate data augmentations from computer vision as w…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 79 cited

Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Astronomical Images

Md Abul Hayat, George Stein, Peter Harrington +2

Sky surveys are the largest data generators in astronomy, making automated tools for extracting meaningful scientific information an absolute necessity. We show that, without the n…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 79 cited

The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Shunsuke Adachi +280

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough…