pop-cosmos: A comprehensive picture of the galaxy population from COSMOS data

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Auteurs principaux: Alsing, Justin, Thorp, Stephen, Deger, Sinan, Peiris, Hiranya, Leistedt, Boris, Mortlock, Daniel, Leja, Joel
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author Alsing, Justin
Thorp, Stephen
Deger, Sinan
Peiris, Hiranya
Leistedt, Boris
Mortlock, Daniel
Leja, Joel
author_facet Alsing, Justin
Thorp, Stephen
Deger, Sinan
Peiris, Hiranya
Leistedt, Boris
Mortlock, Daniel
Leja, Joel
contents We present pop-cosmos: a comprehensive model characterizing the galaxy population, calibrated to $140,938$ ($r<25$ selected) galaxies from the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) with photometry in $26$ bands from the ultra-violet to the infra-red. We construct a detailed forward model for the COSMOS data, comprising: a population model describing the joint distribution of galaxy characteristics and its evolution (parameterized by a flexible score-based diffusion model); a state-of-the-art stellar population synthesis (SPS) model connecting galaxies' instrinsic properties to their photometry; and a data-model for the observation, calibration and selection processes. By minimizing the optimal transport distance between synthetic and real data we are able to jointly fit the population- and data-models, leading to robustly calibrated population-level inferences that account for parameter degeneracies, photometric noise and calibration, and selection. We present a number of key predictions from our model of interest for cosmology and galaxy evolution, including the mass function and redshift distribution; the mass-metallicity-redshift and fundamental metallicity relations; the star-forming sequence; the relation between dust attenuation and stellar mass, star formation rate and attenuation-law index; and the relation between gas-ionization and star formation. Our model encodes a comprehensive picture of galaxy evolution that faithfully predicts galaxy colors across a broad redshift ($z<4$) and wavelength range.
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spellingShingle pop-cosmos: A comprehensive picture of the galaxy population from COSMOS data
Alsing, Justin
Thorp, Stephen
Deger, Sinan
Peiris, Hiranya
Leistedt, Boris
Mortlock, Daniel
Leja, Joel
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
We present pop-cosmos: a comprehensive model characterizing the galaxy population, calibrated to $140,938$ ($r<25$ selected) galaxies from the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) with photometry in $26$ bands from the ultra-violet to the infra-red. We construct a detailed forward model for the COSMOS data, comprising: a population model describing the joint distribution of galaxy characteristics and its evolution (parameterized by a flexible score-based diffusion model); a state-of-the-art stellar population synthesis (SPS) model connecting galaxies' instrinsic properties to their photometry; and a data-model for the observation, calibration and selection processes. By minimizing the optimal transport distance between synthetic and real data we are able to jointly fit the population- and data-models, leading to robustly calibrated population-level inferences that account for parameter degeneracies, photometric noise and calibration, and selection. We present a number of key predictions from our model of interest for cosmology and galaxy evolution, including the mass function and redshift distribution; the mass-metallicity-redshift and fundamental metallicity relations; the star-forming sequence; the relation between dust attenuation and stellar mass, star formation rate and attenuation-law index; and the relation between gas-ionization and star formation. Our model encodes a comprehensive picture of galaxy evolution that faithfully predicts galaxy colors across a broad redshift ($z<4$) and wavelength range.
title pop-cosmos: A comprehensive picture of the galaxy population from COSMOS data
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00935