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| author | Putney, Eric Shih, David Lim, Sung Hak Buckley, Matthew R. |
| author_facet | Putney, Eric Shih, David Lim, Sung Hak Buckley, Matthew R. |
| contents | The Boltzmann equation relates the equilibrium phase space distribution of stars in the Milky Way to the Galaxy's gravitational potential. However, observations of stellar populations are biased by extinction from foreground dust, which complicates measurements of the potential in the disk and towards the Galactic center. Using the kinematics of Red Clump and Red Branch stars in Gaia DR3, we use machine learning to simultaneously estimate both the unbiased stellar phase space density and the gravitational potential. The unbiased phase space density is obtained through a learned "dust efficiency factor" -- an observational selection function that accounts for dust extinction. The potential and the dust efficiency are parameterized by fully connected neural networks and are completely data driven. We validate the dust efficiency using a recent three-dimensional dust map in this work, and examine the potential in a companion paper. |
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| spellingShingle | Sweeping the Dust Away -- Correcting the Phase Space Density of the Milky Way with Unsupervised Machine Learning Putney, Eric Shih, David Lim, Sung Hak Buckley, Matthew R. Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Physics - Phenomenology The Boltzmann equation relates the equilibrium phase space distribution of stars in the Milky Way to the Galaxy's gravitational potential. However, observations of stellar populations are biased by extinction from foreground dust, which complicates measurements of the potential in the disk and towards the Galactic center. Using the kinematics of Red Clump and Red Branch stars in Gaia DR3, we use machine learning to simultaneously estimate both the unbiased stellar phase space density and the gravitational potential. The unbiased phase space density is obtained through a learned "dust efficiency factor" -- an observational selection function that accounts for dust extinction. The potential and the dust efficiency are parameterized by fully connected neural networks and are completely data driven. We validate the dust efficiency using a recent three-dimensional dust map in this work, and examine the potential in a companion paper. |
| title | Sweeping the Dust Away -- Correcting the Phase Space Density of the Milky Way with Unsupervised Machine Learning |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14236 |