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Title: Inpainting Hydrodynamical Maps with Deep Learning
Abstract From 1000 hydrodynamic simulations of the CAMELS project, each with a different value of the cosmological and astrophysical parameters, we generate 15,000 gas temperature maps. We use a state-of-the-art deep convolutional neural network to recover missing data from those maps. We mimic the missing data by applying regular and irregular binary masks that cover either 15% or 30% of the area. We quantify the reliability of our results using two summary statistics: (1) the distance between the probability density functions, estimated using the Kolmogorov–Smirnov (K-S) test, and (2) the 2D power spectrum. We find an excellent agreement between the model prediction and the unmasked maps when using the power spectrum: better than 1% for k < 20 h Mpc −1 for any irregular mask. For regular masks, we observe a systematic offset of ∼5% when covering 15% of the maps, while the results become unreliable when 30% of the data is missing. The observed K-S test p -values favor the null hypothesis that the reconstructed and the ground-truth maps are drawn from the same underlying distribution when irregular masks are used. For regular-shaped masks, on the other hand, we find a strong evidence that the two distributions do not match each other. Finally, we use the model, trained on gas temperature maps, to inpaint maps from fields not used during model training. We find that, visually, our model is able to reconstruct the missing pixels from the maps of those fields with great accuracy, although its performance using summary statistics depends strongly on the considered field.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2108944
PAR ID:
10459001
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
The Astrophysical Journal
Volume:
941
Issue:
2
ISSN:
0004-637X
Page Range / eLocation ID:
132
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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