1 code implementation • 30 Dec 2024 • John F. Wu
Galaxy appearances reveal the physics of how they formed and evolved.
no code implementations • 19 Nov 2024 • Nikhil Garuda, John F. Wu, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich
Galaxies grow and evolve in dark matter halos.
no code implementations • 2 Aug 2024 • Kartheik G. Iyer, Mikaeel Yunus, Charles O'Neill, Christine Ye, Alina Hyk, Kiera McCormick, Ioana Ciuca, John F. Wu, Alberto Accomazzi, Simone Astarita, Rishabh Chakrabarty, Jesse Cranney, Anjalie Field, Tirthankar Ghosal, Michele Ginolfi, Marc Huertas-Company, Maja Jablonska, Sandor Kruk, Huiling Liu, Gabriel Marchidan, Rohit Mistry, J. P. Naiman, J. E. G. Peek, Mugdha Polimera, Sergio J. Rodriguez, Kevin Schawinski, Sanjib Sharma, Michael J. Smith, Yuan-Sen Ting, Mike Walmsley
The exponential growth of astronomical literature poses significant challenges for researchers navigating and synthesizing general insights or even domain-specific knowledge.
no code implementations • 1 Aug 2024 • Charles O'Neill, Christine Ye, Kartheik Iyer, John F. Wu
Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have shown promise in extracting interpretable features from complex neural networks.
1 code implementation • 30 May 2024 • John F. Wu, Alina Hyk, Kiera McCormick, Christine Ye, Simone Astarita, Elina Baral, Jo Ciuca, Jesse Cranney, Anjalie Field, Kartheik Iyer, Philipp Koehn, Jenn Kotler, Sandor Kruk, Michelle Ntampaka, Charles O'Neill, Joshua E. G. Peek, Sanjib Sharma, Mikaeel Yunus
It is imperative to understand how researchers interact with these models and how scientific sub-communities like astronomy might benefit from them.
no code implementations • 15 Dec 2022 • Ziting Guo, John F. Wu, Chelsea E. Sharon
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are supermassive black holes with luminous accretion disks found in some galaxies, and are thought to play an important role in galaxy evolution.
1 code implementation • 25 Sep 2020 • John F. Wu, J. E. G. Peek
Galaxies can be described by features of their optical spectra such as oxygen emission lines, or morphological features such as spiral arms.
1 code implementation • 31 Dec 2019 • John F. Wu
A galaxy's morphological features encode details about its gas content, star formation history, and feedback processes which regulate its growth and evolution.
Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
1 code implementation • 30 Oct 2018 • John F. Wu, Steven Boada
We train a deep residual convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict the gas-phase metallicity ($Z$) of galaxies derived from spectroscopic information ($Z \equiv 12 + \log(\rm O/H)$) using only three-band $gri$ images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
Astrophysics of Galaxies