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Sep 2026
Cool Embeddings: Predicting Galaxy Cluster Cooling Times in IllustrisTNG and TNG-Cluster with AstroCLIP
Foundation models trained on optical astronomical data have not previously been applied to X-ray cluster thermodynamics. We show that embeddings from AstroCLIP, a contrastive vision-language model trained on optical galaxy images and spectra, retain physically meaningful structure when applied to mock Chandra X-ray ima...
Rawan Karam, C. Rhea, J. Hlavacek-larrondo et al.
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