Stellar population inference with Prospector

BD Johnson, J Leja, C Conroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Inference of the physical properties of stellar populations from observed photometry and
spectroscopy is a key goal in the study of galaxy evolution. In recent years, the quality and …

CosmoPower: emulating cosmological power spectra for accelerated Bayesian inference from next-generation surveys

A Spurio Mancini, D Piras, J Alsing… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present CosmoPower, a suite of neural cosmological power spectrum emulators
providing orders-of-magnitude acceleration for parameter estimation from two-point statistics …

Cosmological constraints from the tomographic cross-correlation of DESI Luminous Red Galaxies and Planck CMB lensing

M White, R Zhou, J DeRose, S Ferraro… - … of Cosmology and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We use luminous red galaxies selected from the imaging surveys that are being used for
targeting by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in combination with CMB …

nautilus: boosting Bayesian importance nested sampling with deep learning

JU Lange - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a novel approach to boost the efficiency of the importance nested sampling
(INS) technique for Bayesian posterior and evidence estimation using deep learning. Unlike …

JWST Reveals a Population of Ultrared, Flattened Galaxies at 2≲ z≲ 6 Previously Missed by HST

EJ Nelson, KA Suess, R Bezanson… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
With just a month of data, JWST is already transforming our view of the universe, revealing
and resolving starlight in unprecedented populations of galaxies. Although" HST-dark" …

pop-cosmos: A comprehensive picture of the galaxy population from COSMOS data

J Alsing, S Thorp, S Deger, HV Peiris… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present pop-cosmos: a comprehensive model characterizing the galaxy population,
calibrated to 140,938 (r< 25 selected) galaxies from the Cosmic Evolution Survey …

CONNECT: a neural network based framework for emulating cosmological observables and cosmological parameter inference

A Nygaard, EB Holm, S Hannestad… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Bayesian parameter inference is an essential tool in modern cosmology, and typically
requires the calculation of 10 5–10 6 theoretical models for each inference of model …

Forward modeling of galaxy populations for cosmological redshift distribution inference

J Alsing, H Peiris, D Mortlock, J Leja… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a forward-modeling framework for estimating galaxy redshift distributions from
photometric surveys. Our forward model is composed of: a detailed population model …

Inferring more from less: Prospector as a photometric redshift engine in the era of JWST

B Wang, J Leja, R Bezanson, BD Johnson… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The advent of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) signals a new era in exploring
galaxies in the high-z universe. Current and upcoming JWST imaging will potentially detect …

Accelerated Bayesian SED modeling using amortized neural posterior estimation

CH Hahn, P Melchior - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
State-of-the-art spectral energy distribution (SED) analyses use a Bayesian framework to
infer the physical properties of galaxies from observed photometry or spectra. They require …