Kavli Affiliate: David N. Spergel
| First 5 Authors: Pablo Villanueva-Domingo, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Shy Genel, Federico Marinacci
| Summary:
Understanding the halo-galaxy connection is fundamental in order to improve
our knowledge on the nature and properties of dark matter. In this work we
build a model that infers the mass of a halo given the positions, velocities,
stellar masses, and radii of the galaxies it hosts. In order to capture
information from correlations among galaxy properties and their phase-space, we
use Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), that are designed to work with irregular and
sparse data. We train our models on galaxies from more than 2,000
state-of-the-art simulations from the Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE
Learning Simulations (CAMELS) project. Our model, that accounts for
cosmological and astrophysical uncertainties, is able to constrain the masses
of the halos with a $sim$0.2 dex accuracy. Furthermore, a GNN trained on a
suite of simulations is able to preserve part of its accuracy when tested on
simulations run with a different code that utilizes a distinct subgrid physics
model, showing the robustness of our method. The PyTorch Geometric
implementation of the GNN is publicly available on Github at
https://github.com/PabloVD/HaloGraphNet
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