1. Identifying galaxy cluster mergers with deep neural networks using idealized Compton-y and X-ray maps.
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Arendt, Ashleigh R, Perrott, Yvette C, Contreras-Santos, Ana, de Andres, Daniel, Cui, Weiguang, and Rennehan, Douglas
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ARTIFICIAL neural networks , *GALAXY clusters , *CONVOLUTIONAL neural networks , *GALAXY mergers , *X-rays - Abstract
We present a novel approach to identify galaxy clusters that are undergoing a merger using a deep learning approach. This paper uses massive galaxy clusters spanning 0 ≤ z ≤ 2 from The Three Hundred project, a suite of hydrodynamic resimulations of 324 large galaxy clusters. Mock, idealized Compton- y and X-ray maps were constructed for the sample, capturing them out to a radius of 2 R 200. The idealized nature of these maps mean they do not consider observational effects such as foreground or background astrophysical objects, any spatial resolution limits or restriction on X-ray energy bands. Half of the maps belong to a merging population as defined by a mass increase Δ M/M ≥ 0.75, and the other half serves as a controlled, relaxed population. We employ a convolutional neural network architecture and train the model to classify clusters into one of the groups. A best-performing model was able to correctly distinguish between the two populations with a balanced accuracy (BA) and recall of 0.77, ROC-AUC of 0.85, PR-AUC of 0.55, and F 1 score of 0.53. Using a multichannel model relative to a single-channel model, we obtain a 3 per cent improvement in BA score, and a 6 per cent improvement in F 1 score. We use a saliency interpretation approach to discern the regions most important to each classification decision. By analysing radially binned saliency values we find a preference to utilize regions out to larger distances for mergers with respect to non-mergers, greater than ∼1.2 R 200 and ∼0.7 R 200 for SZ and X-ray, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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