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Painting with baryons: augmenting N-body simulations with gas using deep generative models

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Tröster, Tilman, Ferguson, Cameron, Harnois-Déraps, Joachim, McCarthy, Ian G·2019·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

Abstract

Running hydrodynamical simulations to produce mock data of large-scale structure and baryonic probes, such as the thermal Sunyaev–Zeldovich (tSZ) effect, at cosmological scales is computationally challenging. We propose to leverage the expressive power of deep generative models to find an effective description of the large-scale gas distribution and temperature. We train two deep generative models, a variational auto-encoder and a generative adversarial network, on pairs of matter density and pressure slices from the BAHAMAS hydrodynamical simulation. The trained models are able to successfully map matter density to the corresponding gas pressure. We then apply the trained models on 100 lines of sight from SLICS, a suite of N-body simulations optimized for weak lensing covariance estimation, to generate maps of the tSZ effect. The generated tSZ maps are found to be statistically consistent with those from BAHAMAS. We conclude by considering a specific observable, the angular cross-power spectrum between the weak lensing convergence and the tSZ effect and its variance, where we find excellent agreement between the predictions from BAHAMAS and SLICS, thus enabling the use of SLICS for tSZ covariance estimation.

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  • GANs led to more accurate results but were harder to train and less stable than VAEs in Tröster et al. (2019).

    “but did report a tradeoff of GANs leading to more accurate results but being harder to train and less stable than VAEs.”

    From The Dawes Review 10: The impact of deep learning for the analysis of galaxy surveys (2023) · cites this paper as Tröster et al. (2019)

  • Tröster et al. (2019) found excellent agreement with ground truth simulations at different redshifts for conditional VAEs and GANs mapping 2D dark matter density slices to 2D tSZ maps.

    “They found excellent agreement with ground truth simulations, at different redshifts”

    From The Dawes Review 10: The impact of deep learning for the analysis of galaxy surveys (2023) · cites this paper as Tröster et al. (2019)

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Authors
Tröster, T., Ferguson, C., Harnois-Déraps, J., & McCarthy, I. G.
Affiliations
  • Royal Observatory (GB)
  • Liverpool John Moores University (GB)
Corresponding author
Tröster, Tilman
Venue
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Published
2019-05-29
Volume
487
Issue
1
Pages
L24-L29
ISSN
  • 1745-3925 (ISSN-L)
  • 1745-3933
OpenAlex
W2923557884
Cited by
77
References
23
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 7
FWCI
6.14
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Liverpool John Moores University (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie (797794)
  • European Research Council (647112, 769130)
  • Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/K00042X/1, ST/P002293/1, ST/R002371/1, ST/S002502/1, ST/R000832/1)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
Keywords
thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, large-scale structure, deep generative models, variational autoencoder, generative adversarial networks, N-body simulations, Bahamas

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