On the sensitivity of different galaxy properties to warm dark matter
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| author | Costanza, Belén Wang, Bonny Y. Villaescusa-Navarro, Francisco Garcia, Alex M. Rose, Jonah C. Vogelsberger, Mark Torrey, Paul Farahi, Arya Shen, Xuejian Leisher, Ilem |
| author_facet | Costanza, Belén Wang, Bonny Y. Villaescusa-Navarro, Francisco Garcia, Alex M. Rose, Jonah C. Vogelsberger, Mark Torrey, Paul Farahi, Arya Shen, Xuejian Leisher, Ilem |
| contents | We study the impact of warm dark matter (WDM) particle mass on galaxy properties using 1,024 state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamical simulations from the DREAMS project. We begin by using a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) coupled with a normalizing flow to explore global statistical descriptors of galaxy populations, such as the mean, standard deviation, and histograms of 14 galaxy properties. We find that subhalo gas mass is the most informative feature for constraining the WDM mass, achieving a determination coefficient of R^2 = 0.9. We employ symbolic regression to extract simple, interpretable relations with the WDM particle mass. Finally, we adopt a more localized approach by selecting individual dark matter halos and using a Graph Neural Network (GNN) with a normalizing flow to infer the WDM mass, incorporating subhalo properties as node features and global simulation statistics as graph-level features. The GNN approach yields only a residual improvement over MLP models based solely on global features, indicating that most of the predictive power resides in the global descriptors, with only marginal gains from halo-level information. |
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| spellingShingle | On the sensitivity of different galaxy properties to warm dark matter Costanza, Belén Wang, Bonny Y. Villaescusa-Navarro, Francisco Garcia, Alex M. Rose, Jonah C. Vogelsberger, Mark Torrey, Paul Farahi, Arya Shen, Xuejian Leisher, Ilem Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies We study the impact of warm dark matter (WDM) particle mass on galaxy properties using 1,024 state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamical simulations from the DREAMS project. We begin by using a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) coupled with a normalizing flow to explore global statistical descriptors of galaxy populations, such as the mean, standard deviation, and histograms of 14 galaxy properties. We find that subhalo gas mass is the most informative feature for constraining the WDM mass, achieving a determination coefficient of R^2 = 0.9. We employ symbolic regression to extract simple, interpretable relations with the WDM particle mass. Finally, we adopt a more localized approach by selecting individual dark matter halos and using a Graph Neural Network (GNN) with a normalizing flow to infer the WDM mass, incorporating subhalo properties as node features and global simulation statistics as graph-level features. The GNN approach yields only a residual improvement over MLP models based solely on global features, indicating that most of the predictive power resides in the global descriptors, with only marginal gains from halo-level information. |
| title | On the sensitivity of different galaxy properties to warm dark matter |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05037 |