Sight beyond sight: Teasing Galaxies Apart with Deep Learning
When the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) opened its eyes 30 years ago, our vision of the Universe beyond our Milky Way galaxy came into focus. The scientific discoveries made possible by galaxy surveys such as the HST include the formation of galaxies
Fear of the dark: Caveats of using supernovae to probe the nature of dark energy
The Cosmostatistics Initiative (COIN) reports an intriguing result suggesting that unraveling the nature of dark energy can be trickier than previously thought. Their recent work presents a stress test for our current capabilities to detect deviations
Now you see me: COIN extends the open cluster census in the solar neighborhood with Gaia DR2
Map of the plane of the Milky Way projected on the sky showing previously known open clusters (gray points) and the new COIN-Gaia open clusters (yellow dots). The Cosmostatistics Initiative (COIN), an international collaboration that consists of experts in astrophysics, statistics and machine learning, has discovered 41 new groups of stars known as “open clusters” […]
COIN is turning 5 and has a new online home!
In 2018 the Cosmostatistics Initiative is entering its 5th year of activities, and weare happy to announce that COIN new website is now live. The current features include dedicated pages for our projects, a dedicated wall for those who have directly contributed to COIN projects, a news feed, a brand new logo and navigation interface for mobile and desktop. We also improved the […]
CRP #5 – COIN is going to Greece!
We anticipate an intense and productive week of interdisciplinary collaboration, liters of expressos, and an enjoyment time in the hot Greek summer!
Prose Awards
The astrostatistics book Bayesian Models for Astrophysical Data – using R, JAGS, Python and Stan, Cambridge University Press 2017