Exploring the Cosmos with the Vera Rubin Observatory

Project Information

CosmicExplorer

Grant agreement ID: 101018897

DOI

10.3030/101018897

EC signature date 11 May 2021

Start date 1 October 2021

End date 30 September 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 498 565,00

EU contribution

€ 2 498 565,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (36)

Detecting strongly lensed type Ia supernovae with LSST

Author(s): Nikki Arendse, Suhail Dhawan, Ana Sagués Carracedo, Hiranya V Peiris, Ariel Goobar, Radek Wojtak, Catarina Alves, Rahul Biswas, Simon Huber, Simon Birrer, null null
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 531, 2024, Page(s) 3509-3523, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1356

BIRD-SNACK: Bayesian inference of dust law RV distributions using SN Ia apparent colours at peak

Author(s): Sam M. Ward, Suhail Dhawan, Kaisey S. Mandel, Matthew Grayling, Stephen Thorp
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Issue Volume 526, Issue 4, December 2023, Pages 5715–5734, 2023, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3159

Explaining dark matter halo density profiles with neural networks

Author(s): Luisa Lucie-Smith, Hiranya V. Peiris, Andrew Pontzen
Published in: Physical Review Letters (PRL), Issue 32, 031001 (2024), 2024, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.031001

Marginal post-processing of Bayesian inference products with normalizing flows and kernel density estimators

Author(s): Harry TJ Bevins, William J Handley, Pablo Lemos, Peter H Sims, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Anastasia Fialkov, Justin Alsing
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), 2023, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2997

Impact of Rubin Observatory cadence choices on supernovae photometric classification

Author(s): Catarina S. Alves, Hiranya V. Peiris, Michelle Lochner, Jason D. McEwen, Richard Kessler, The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (ApJS), Issue 265, 43 (2023), 2023, ISSN 1538-4365
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/acbb09

Deep learning insights into non-universality in the halo mass function

Author(s): Ningyuan Guo, Luisa Lucie-Smith, Hiranya V Peiris, Andrew Pontzen, Davide Piras
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 532, 2024, Page(s) 4141-4156, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1696

A robust estimator of mutual information for deep learning interpretability

Author(s): Davide Piras, Hiranya V. Peiris, Andrew Pontzen, Luisa Lucie-Smith, Ningyuan Guo and Brian Nord
Published in: Machine Learning: Science and Technology (MLST), Issue 4, 025006 (2023), 2023, ISSN 2632-2153
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/2632-2153/acc444

The PHANGS-JWST Treasury Survey: Star Formation, Feedback, and Dust Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS

Author(s): Janice C. Lee, Karin M. Sandstrom, Adam K. Leroy, David A. Thilker, Eva Schinnerer, Erik Rosolowsky, Kirsten L. Larson, Oleg V. Egorov, Thomas G. Williams, Judy Schmidt, Eric Emsellem, Gagandeep S. Anand, Ashley T. Barnes, Francesco Belfiore, Ivana Bešlić, Frank Bigiel, Guillermo A. Blanc, Alberto D. Bolatto, Médéric Boquien, Jakob den Brok, Yixian Cao, Rupali Chandar, Jérémy Chastenet, Mél
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL), Issue 944:L17 (2023), 2023, ISSN 2041-8213
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2212.02667

Lossless, scalable implicit likelihood inference for cosmological fields

Author(s): T Lucas Makinen, Tom Charnock, Justin Alsing, Benjamin D Wandelt
Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP), 2023, ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2107.07405

Modelling Populations of Kilonovae

Author(s): Christian N. Setzer, Hiranya V. Peiris, Oleg Korobkin, Stephan Rosswog
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Issue 520:2, 2829 (2023), 2023, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Royal Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad257

Towards Accurate Field-Level Inference of Massive Cosmic Structures

Author(s): Stephen Stopyra, Hiranya V. Peiris, Andrew Pontzen, Jens Jasche, Guilhem Lavaux
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Issue 527:1, 1244 (2024), 2024, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Royal Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3170

Variational inference for acceleration of SN Ia photometric distance estimation with BayeSN

Author(s): Ana Sofía M Uzsoy, Stephen Thorp, Matthew Grayling, Kaisey S Mandel
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 535, 2024, Page(s) 2306-2321, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2465

An Anti-halo Void Catalogue of the Local Super-Volume

Author(s): Stephen Stopyra, Hiranya V. Peiris, Andrew Pontzen, Jens Jasche, Guilhem Lavaux
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Issue Accepted manuscript, 2024, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1251

Using Rest-Frame Optical and NIR Data from the RAISIN Survey to Explore the Redshift Evolution of Dust Laws in SN Ia Host Galaxies

Author(s): Stephen Thorp, Kaisey S. Mandel, David O. Jones, Robert P. Kirshner, Peter M. Challis
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Issue Volume 530, Issue 4, June 2024,, 2024, Page(s) Pages 4016-4031, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1111

Measuring the nuclear equation of state with neutron star-black hole mergers

Author(s): Nikhil Sarin, Hiranya V. Peiris, Daniel J. Mortlock, Justin Alsing, Samaya M. Nissanke, Stephen M. Feeney
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 110, 2024, Page(s) 110, 024076, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: Physical Review D (PRD)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.110.024076

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Stellar Feedback-Driven Excitation and Dissociation of Molecular Gas in the Starburst Ring of NGC 1365?

Author(s): Daizhong Liu, Eva Schinnerer, Yixian Cao, Adam Leroy, Antonio Usero, Erik Rosolowsky, Eric Emsellem, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Mélanie Chevance, Simon C. O. Glover, Mattia C. Sormani, Alberto D. Bolatto, Jiayi Sun, Sophia K. Stuber, Yu-Hsuan Teng, Frank Bigiel, Ivana Bešlić, Kathryn Grasha, Jonathan D. Henshaw, Ashley. T. Barnes, Jakob S. den Brok, Toshiki Saito, Daniel A. Dale, Elizabeth J. Wa
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL), Issue 944:L19 (2023), 2023, ISSN 2041-8213
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aca973

Multiscale stellar associations across the star formation hierarchy in PHANGS-HST nearby galaxies: methodology and properties

Author(s): Kirsten L. Larson, Janice C. Lee, David A. Thilker, Bradley C. Whitmore, Sinan Deger, James Lilly, Rupali Chandar, Daniel A. Dale, Frank Bigiel, Kathryn Grasha, Brent Groves, Ralf S. Klessen, Kathryn Kreckel, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Adam K. Leroy, Hsi-An Pan, Erik Rosolowsky, Eva Schinnerer, Andreas Schruba, Elizabeth J. Watkins, Thomas G. Williams
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Issue Volume 523, Issue 4, August 2023, 2023, Page(s) Pages 6061–6081, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Royal Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1600

pop-cosmos: A Comprehensive Picture of the Galaxy Population from COSMOS Data

Author(s): Justin Alsing, Stephen Thorp, Sinan Deger, Hiranya V. Peiris, Boris Leistedt, Daniel Mortlock, Joel Leja
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Issue 274, 2024, Page(s) 12, ISSN 0067-0049
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ad5c69

JWST Photometric Time-delay and Magnification Measurements for the Triply Imaged Type Ia “SN H0pe” at z = 1.78

Author(s): J. D. R. Pierel, B. L. Frye, M. Pascale, G. B. Caminha, W. Chen, S. Dhawan, D. Gilman, M. Grayling, S. Huber, P. Kelly, S. Thorp, N. Arendse, S. Birrer, M. Bronikowski, R. Cañameras, D. Coe, S. H. Cohen, C. J. Conselice, S. P. Driver, J. C. J. DŚilva, M. Engesser, N. Foo, C. Gall, N. Garuda, C. Grillo, N. A. Grogin, J. Henderson, J. Hjorth, R. A. Jansen, J. Johansson, P. S. Kamieneski, A. M. Koe
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 967, 2024, Page(s) 50, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad3c43

GausSN: Bayesian Time-Delay Estimation for Strongly Lensed Supernovae

Author(s): Erin E. Hayes, Stephen Thorp, Kaisey S. Mandel, Nikki Arendse, Matthew Grayling, Suhail Dhawan
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Issue Volume 530, Issue 4, June 2024, 2024, Page(s) pages 3942-3963, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1086

PHANGS-JWST First Results: The Dust Filament Network of NGC 628 and its Relation to Star Formation Activity

Author(s): David A. Thilker, Janice C. Lee, Sinan Deger, Ashley T. Barnes, Frank Bigiel, Médéric Boquien, Yixian Cao, Mélanie Chevance, Daniel A. Dale, Oleg V. Egorov, Simon C. O. Glover, Kathryn Grasha, Jonathan D. Henshaw, Ralf S. Klessen, Eric Koch, M. Diederik Kruijssen, Adam K. Leroy, Ryan A. Lessing, Sharon E. Meidt, Francesca Pinna, Miguel Querejeta, Erik Rosolowsky, Karin M. Sandstrom, Eva Schinne
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL), Issue 944:L13 (2023), 2023, ISSN 2041-8213
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/acaeac

Forward modeling of galaxy populations for cosmological redshift distribution inference

Author(s): Justin Alsing, Hiranya Peiris, Daniel Mortlock, Joel Leja and Boris Leistedt
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (ApJS), Issue 264, 29 (2023), 2023, ISSN 1538-4365
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ac9583

PHANGS-JWST: Data-processing Pipeline and First Full Public Data Release

Author(s): Thomas G. Williams, Janice C. Lee, Kirsten L. Larson, Adam K. Leroy, Karin Sandstrom, Eva Schinnerer, David A. Thilker, Francesco Belfiore, Oleg V. Egorov, Erik Rosolowsky, Jessica Sutter, Joseph DePasquale, Alyssa Pagan, Travis A. Berger, Gagandeep S. Anand, Ashley T. Barnes, Frank Bigiel, Médéric Boquien, Yixian Cao, Jérémy Chastenet, Mélanie Chevance, Ryan Chown, Daniel A. Dale, Sinan Dege
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Issue 273, 2024, Page(s) 13, ISSN 0067-0049
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ad4be5

Neural Stellar Population Synthesis Emulator for the DESI PROVABGS

Author(s): K.J. Kwon, ChangHoon Hahn, Justin Alsing
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (ApJS), Issue 265, 23 (2023), 2023, ISSN 1538-4365
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/acba14

Searching for dark matter with plasma haloscopes

Author(s): Alexander J. Millar, Steven M. Anlage, Rustam Balafendiev, Pavel Belov, Karl van Bibber, Jan Conrad, Marcel Demarteau, Alexander Droster, Katherine Dunne, Andrea Gallo Rosso, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Heather Jackson, Gagandeep Kaur, Tove Klaesson, Nolan Kowitt, Matthew Lawson, Alexander Leder, Akira Miyazaki, Sid Morampudi, Hiranya V. Peiris, Henrik S. Røising, Gaganpreet Singh, Dajie Sun, Jacob H. Th
Published in: Physical Review D (PRD), Issue 107, 055013 (2023), 2023, ISSN 1089-4918
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.107.055013

Scalable hierarchical BayeSN inference: Investigating dependence of SN Ia host galaxy dust properties on stellar mass and redshift

Author(s): Matthew Grayling, Stephen Thorp, Kaisey S. Mandel, Suhail Dhawan, Ana Sofia Uzsoy, Benjamin M. Boyd, Erin E. Hayes, Sam M. Ward
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Issue Accepted manuscript, 2024, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1202

Stellar angular momentum can be controlled from cosmological initial conditions

Author(s): Corentin Cadiou, Andrew Pontzen, Hiranya V. Peiris
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Issue 517:3, 3459 (2022), 2022, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Royal Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2858

PHANGS-HST Catalogs for ∼100,000 Star Clusters and Compact Associations in 38 Galaxies. I. Observed Properties

Author(s): Daniel Maschmann, Janice C. Lee, David A. Thilker, Bradley C. Whitmore, Sinan Deger, Médéric Boquien, Rupali Chandar, Daniel A. Dale, Aida Wofford, Stephen Hannon, Kirsten L. Larson, Adam K. Leroy, Eva Schinnerer, Erik Rosolowsky, Leonardo Úbeda, Ashley T. Barnes, Eric Emsellem, Kathryn Grasha, Brent Groves, Rémy Indebetouw, Hwihyun Kim, Ralf S. Klessen, Kathryn Kreckel, Rebecca C. Levy, Franc
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Issue 273, 2024, Page(s) 14, ISSN 0067-0049
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ad3cd3

Star Cluster Classification using Deep Transfer Learning with PHANGS-HST

Author(s): Stephen Hannon, Bradley C Whitmore, Janice C Lee, David A Thilker, Sinan Deger, E A Huerta, Wei Wei, Bahram Mobasher, Ralf Klessen, Médéric Boquien, Daniel A Dale, Mélanie Chevance, Kathryn Grasha, Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez, Thomas Williams, Fabian Scheuermann, Brent Groves, Hwihyun Kim, J M Diederik Kruijssen, the PHANGS-HST Team
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Issue Volume 526, Issue 2, December 2023, 2023, Page(s) Pages 2991–3006, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Royal Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2238

pop-cosmos: Scaleable Inference of Galaxy Properties and Redshifts with a Data-driven Population Model

Author(s): Stephen Thorp, Justin Alsing, Hiranya V. Peiris, Sinan Deger, Daniel J. Mortlock, Boris Leistedt, Joel Leja, Arthur Loureiro
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 975, 2024, Page(s) 145, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad7736

Limits on the Light Dark Matter–Proton Cross Section from Cosmic Large-Scale Structure

Author(s): Keir K. Rogers, Cora Dvorkin, Hiranya V. Peiris
Published in: Physical Review Letters (PRL), Issue 128, 171301 (2022), 2022, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.171301

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Dust embedded star clusters in NGC 7496 selected via 3.3µm PAH emission

Author(s): M. Jimena Rodríguez, Janice C. Lee, B. C. Whitmore, David A. Thilker, Daniel Maschmann, Rupali Chandar, Sinan Deger, Médéric Boquien, Daniel A. Dale, Kirsten L. Larson, Thomas G. Williams, Hwihyun Kim, Eva Schinnerer, Erik Rosolowsky, Adam K. Leroy, Eric Emsellem, Karin M. Sandstrom, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Kathryn Grasha, Elizabeth J. Watkins, Ashley. T. Barnes, Mattia C. Sormani, Jaeyeon Ki
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, ApJL, Issue 944:L26 (2023), 2023, ISSN 2041-8213
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aca653

Data-space Validation of High-dimensional Models by Comparing Sample Quantiles

Author(s): Stephen Thorp, Hiranya V. Peiris, Daniel J. Mortlock, Justin Alsing, Boris Leistedt, Sinan Deger
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Issue 276, 2024, Page(s) 5, ISSN 0067-0049
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ad8ebd

Hierarchical Bayesian inference of photometric redshifts with stellar population synthesis models

Author(s): Boris Leistedt, Justin Alsing, Hiranya Peiris, Daniel Mortlock, Joel Leja
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (ApJS), Issue 264, 23 (2023), 2023, ISSN 1538-4365
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ac9d99

Discovering the building blocks of dark matter halo density profiles with neural networks

Author(s): Luisa Lucie-Smith, Hiranya V. Peiris, Andrew Pontzen, Brian Nord, Jeyan Thiyagalingam, Davide Piras
Published in: Physical Review D (PRD), Issue 105, 103533 (2022), 2022, ISSN 1089-4918
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.105.103533

Stellar associations powering H II regions - I. Defining an evolutionary sequence

Author(s): Fabian Scheuermann, Kathryn Kreckel, Ashley T. Barnes, Francesco Belfiore, Brent Groves, Stephen Hannon, Janice C. Lee, Rebecca Minsley, Erik Rosolowsky, Frank Bigiel, Guillermo A. Blanc, Médéric Boquien, Daniel A. Dale, Sinan Deger, Oleg V. Egorov, Eric Emsellem, Simon C. O. Glover, Kathryn Grasha, Hamid Hassani, Sarah M. R. Jeffreson, Ralf S. Klessen, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Kirsten L. Larso
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Issue 522:2, 2369 (2023), 2023, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Royal Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad878

Conference proceedings (2)

Accounting for Selection Effects in Supernova Cosmology with Simulation-Based Inference and Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling

Author(s): Benjamin M. Boyd, Matthew Grayling, Stephen Thorp, Kaisey S. Mandel
Published in: ICML AI for Science Workshop, Issue N/A, 2024, Page(s) N/A
Publisher: N/A

Scaling laws for large time-series models

Author(s): Thomas Edwards, James Alvey, Justin Alsing, Nam Nguyen, Benjamin Wandelt
Published in: Neurips Workshop on Time Series in the Age of Large Models (TSALM), Issue N/A, 2024, Page(s) N/A
Publisher: Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Time Series