Weighing the Milky Way and Andromeda with Artificial Intelligence
Pablo Villanueva-Domingo, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Shy Genel, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Lars Hernquist, Federico Marinacci, David N. Spergel, Mark Vogelsberger, Desika Narayanan
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Abstract
We present new constraints on the masses of the halos hosting the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies derived using graph neural networks. Our models, trained on thousands of state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of the CAMELS project, only make use of the positions, velocities and stellar masses of the galaxies belonging to the halos, and are able to perform likelihood-free inference on halo masses while accounting for both cosmological and astrophysical uncertainties. Our constraints are in agreement with estimates from other traditional methods.