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Differential Upregulation of BDNF mRNA in the Rat Hippocampus after Sing and Recurrent Hyperthermia-Induced Seizures
Thesis (M.D.) - Yale University, 2002
Dynamical Mass Measurements of Contaminated Galaxy Clusters Using Machine Learning
We study dynamical mass measurements of galaxy clusters contaminated by
interlopers and show that a modern machine learning (ML) algorithm can predict
masses by better than a factor of two compared to a standard scaling relation
approach. We create two mock catalogs from Multidark's publicly available
-body MDPL1 simulation, one with perfect galaxy cluster membership
information and the other where a simple cylindrical cut around the cluster
center allows interlopers to contaminate the clusters. In the standard
approach, we use a power-law scaling relation to infer cluster mass from galaxy
line-of-sight (LOS) velocity dispersion. Assuming perfect membership knowledge,
this unrealistic case produces a wide fractional mass error distribution, with
a width of . Interlopers introduce additional
scatter, significantly widening the error distribution further
(). We employ the support distribution machine (SDM)
class of algorithms to learn from distributions of data to predict single
values. Applied to distributions of galaxy observables such as LOS velocity and
projected distance from the cluster center, SDM yields better than a
factor-of-two improvement () for the contaminated
case. Remarkably, SDM applied to contaminated clusters is better able to
recover masses than even the scaling relation approach applied to
uncontaminated clusters. We show that the SDM method more accurately reproduces
the cluster mass function, making it a valuable tool for employing cluster
observations to evaluate cosmological models.Comment: 18 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication at Ap
Probing the first galaxies with the SKA
Observations of anisotropies in the brightness temperature of the 21 cm line
of neutral hydrogen from the period before reionization would shed light on the
dawn of the first stars and galaxies. In this paper, we use large-scale
semi-numerical simulations to analyse the imprint on the 21 cm signal of
spatial fluctuations in the Lyman-alpha flux arising from the clustering of the
first galaxies. We show that an experiment such as the Square Kilometer Array
(SKA) can probe this signal at the onset of reionization, giving us important
information about the UV emission spectra of the first stars and characterizing
their host galaxies. SKA-pathfinders with ~ 10% of the full collecting area
should be capable of making a statistical detection of the 21 cm power spectrum
at redshifts z 67 MHz). We then show
that the SKA should be able to measure the three dimensional power spectrum as
a function of the angle with the line of sight and discuss the use of the
redshift space distortions as a way to separate out the different components of
the 21 cm power spectrum. We demonstrate that, at least on large scales where
the Lyman-alpha fluctuations are linear, they can be used as a model
independent way to extract the power spectra due to these Lyman-alpha
fluctuations.Comment: 13 pages, 17 figures. New version to match version accepted by A&A.
Improved discussions on the Lyman-alpha simulation, adiabatic cooling
fluctuations, the Fisher matrix approach and the Poisson term calculation.
New version of the code available at: http://www.SimFast21.or
PIERNIK mhd code - a multi-fluid, non-ideal extension of the relaxing-TVD scheme (I)
We present a new multi-fluid, grid MHD code PIERNIK, which is based on the
Relaxing TVD scheme. The original scheme has been extended by an addition of
dynamically independent, but interacting fluids: dust and a diffusive cosmic
ray gas, described within the fluid approximation, with an option to add other
fluids in an easy way. The code has been equipped with shearing-box boundary
conditions, and a selfgravity module, Ohmic resistivity module, as well as
other facilities which are useful in astrophysical fluid-dynamical simulations.
The code is parallelized by means of the MPI library. In this paper we shortly
introduce basic elements of the Relaxing TVD MHD algorithm, following Trac &
Pen (2003) and Pen et al. (2003), and then focus on the conservative
implementation of the shearing box model, constructed with the aid of the
Masset's (2000) method. We present results of a test example of a formation of
a gravitationally bounded object (planet) in a self-gravitating and
differentially rotating fluid.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, conference proceedings of the Torun Exoplanets
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