Cool Embeddings: Predicting Galaxy Cluster Cooling Times in IllustrisTNG and TNG-Cluster with AstroCLIP

arXiv:2609.32582 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-09-26 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-26

Updated: 2026-09-26

Terminology

• Embeddings — 32× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 28× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 12× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AGN — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generalization — 7× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• AGN Feedback — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Contrastive Learning — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Attention Mechanism — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Domain Shift — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Latent Space — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Downstream Tasks — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Interpretability — 2× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Metallicity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Representation Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Simulation-based Inference — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transferability — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Feature Extraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Feature Selection — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models
• The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design
• eROSITA Science Book: Mapping the Structure of the Energetic Universe
• ROAM: Robust and Object-Aware Motion Generation Using Neural Pose Descriptors
• Galaxy cluster characterization with machine learning techniques

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