Nature versus nurture in galaxy formation: the effect of environment on star formation with causal machine learning
星系形成中的先天与后天因素：用因果机器学习研究环境对恒星形成的影响
Understanding how galaxies form and evolve is at the heart of modern astronomy. With the advent of large-scale surveys and simulations, remarkable progress has been made in the last few decades. Despite this, the physical processes behind the phenomena, and particularly their importance, remain far from known, as correlations have primarily been established rather than the underlying causality. We address this challenge by applying the causal inference framework.…