arXiv:2409.02980astro-ph.GAastro-ph.CO2024-09被引 10

用扩散模型生成星系与暗晕关系,精度接近高保真模拟,速度媲美快速模型。

How DREAMS are made: Emulating Satellite Galaxy and Subhalo Populations with Diffusion Models and Point Clouds

  • 基于扩散模型与Transformer,将星系作为点云直接生成于暗晕上。
  • 在1024个银河系质量暗晕上训练,还原了星系质量、位置、速度等关键关系。
  • 适合大规模宇宙学模拟、引力透镜等需要高效精确星系分布的场景。

星系与其宿主暗物质晕之间的关联对理解宇宙学、星系形成及暗物质物理至关重要。为最大化下一代巡天的科学回报,亟需一种准确建模该复杂关系的方法。现有方法如晕占有率分布(HOD)计算快但精度有限,而流体动力学模拟虽更精确却成本高昂。本文提出NeHOD,一种基于变分扩散模型与Transformer的生成框架,可在类似HOD的计算开销下达到流体动力学模拟的精度。通过将星系/子暗晕建模为点云而非网格或分箱,可解析至模拟分辨率级别。对每个暗晕,NeHOD预测中心与卫星星系的位置、速度、质量和浓度。我们在DREAMS项目的TNG-Warm DM系列中训练模型,包含1024个高分辨率类银河系质量暗晕的零星流体动力学模拟,涵盖不同温暗物质质量与天体物理参数。结果表明,该模型能捕捉子暗晕属性随模拟参数变化的复杂关系,包括质量函数、星系-晕质量关系、浓度-质量关系及空间聚类特性。该方法适用于星系聚类、强引力透镜等多种下游应用。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The connection between galaxies and their host dark matter (DM) halos is critical to our understanding of cosmology, galaxy formation, and DM physics. To maximize the return of upcoming cosmological surveys, we need an accurate way to model this complex relationship. Many techniques have been developed to model this connection, from Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) to empirical and semi-analytic models to hydrodynamic. Hydrodynamic simulations can incorporate more detailed astrophysical processes but are computationally expensive; HODs, on the other hand, are computationally cheap but have limited accuracy. In this work, we present NeHOD, a generative framework based on variational diffusion model and Transformer, for painting galaxies/subhalos on top of DM with an accuracy of hydrodynamic simulations but at a computational cost similar to HOD. By modeling galaxies/subhalos as point clouds, instead of binning or voxelization, we can resolve small spatial scales down to the resolution of the simulations. For each halo, NeHOD predicts the positions, velocities, masses, and concentrations of its central and satellite galaxies. We train NeHOD on the TNG-Warm DM suite of the DREAMS project, which consists of 1024 high-resolution zoom-in hydrodynamic simulations of Milky Way-mass halos with varying warm DM mass and astrophysical parameters. We show that our model captures the complex relationships between subhalo properties as a function of the simulation parameters, including the mass functions, stellar-halo mass relations, concentration-mass relations, and spatial clustering. Our method can be used for a large variety of downstream applications, from galaxy clustering to strong lensing studies.

扩散模型星系形成暗物质生成模型

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