2 papers
astro-ph.GA2025
PyMGal: A Python Package for Generating Optical Mock Observations from Hydrodynamical Simulations
Patrick Janulewicz, Weiguang Cui
We introduce PyMGal, a Python package for generating optical mock observations of galaxies from hydrodynamical simulations. PyMGal reads the properties of stellar particles from th…
astro-ph.GA2025
Using Neural Networks to Automate the Identification of Brightest Cluster Galaxies in Large Surveys
Patrick Janulewicz, Tracy M. A. Webb, Laurence Perreault-Levasseur
Brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) lie deep within the largest gravitationally bound structures in existence. Though some cluster finding techniques identify the position of the BCG…