FINIAN ASHMEAD

ABOUT ME

Education: Ph.D. in Physics, University of Pittsburgh (current)
B.S. in Astrophysics, The University of Chicago (2021)

Research Interests: I'm interested in observational cosmology and am particularly focused on mapping the universe with improved photometric redshift techniques that allow us to calculate intergalactic distances.

Publications: ADS link!

RESEARCH

Optimizing Photometric Redshift Training Sets I: Efficient Compression of the Galaxy Color–Redshift Relation with UMAP
A 3D UMAP embedding of the ugrizyJH color space inhabited by ~100k COSMOS2020 galaxies.
Visualizations and Interactive Plots Project Github Repo

Project II
Testing it.

UMAP OF ugrizyJH COLORS

• MP4 Animation
• Interactive Plot: z_phot
• Interactive Plot: z_spec
• Interactive Plot: ssfr_phot
• Interactive Plot: ssfr_spec

UMAP ugrizyJH – MP4 ANIMATION

• BACK TO UMAP ugrizyJH

COMMUNITY

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CONTACT

Email: finianashmead@pitt.edu

• GitHub