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arXiv 0904.3056astro-ph.CO
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用新的模型选择方法改进弱引力透镜的PSF模型

Improving PSF modelling for weak gravitational lensing using new methods in model selection

Barnaby Rowe

摘要:

一个简单的理论框架的空间相关的建模残差的描述和解释,并由此产生的工具被发现提供了一个有用的帮助模型选择的背景下,弱引力透镜。描述集中在建模的望远镜点扩散函数(PSF)在整个仪器视场的空间变化的具体问题,在透镜数据分析的一个关键阶段,但该技术可用于排名竞争模型的数据描述经验。因此,随着进一步的发展,它可以提供有用的额外信息时,与现有的模型选择技术,如赤池和贝叶斯信息标准,或贝叶斯证据结合使用。两个独立的诊断关联函数的描述和解释这些功能证明使用模拟PSF各向异性场。这些诊断功能作为一个援助的经验模型的正确选择的功效,然后证明了一套蒙特卡罗模拟的随机PSF字段与不同程度的空间结构的分析结果,它示出了如何诊断功能可以与精确的宇宙剪切测量的要求。该技术的局限性,以及改善和应用领域以外的弱引力透镜的机会,进行了讨论。

英文摘要:

A simple theoretical framework for the description and interpretation of spatially correlated modelling residuals is presented, and the resulting tools are found to provide a useful aid to model selection in the context of weak gravitational lensing. The description is focused upon the specific problem of modelling the spatial variation of a telescope point spread function (PSF) across the instrument field of view, a crucial stage in lensing data analysis, but the technique may be used to rank competing models wherever data are described empirically. As such it may, with further development, provide useful extra information when used in combination with existing model selection techniques such as the Akaike and Bayesian Information Criteria, or the Bayesian evidence. Two independent diagnostic correlation functions are described and the interpretation of these functions demonstrated using a simulated PSF anisotropy field. The efficacy of these diagnostic functions as an aid to the correct choice of empirical model is then demonstrated by analyzing results for a suite of Monte Carlo simulations of random PSF fields with varying degrees of spatial structure, and it is shown how the diagnostic functions can be related to requirements for precision cosmic shear measurement. The limitations of the technique, and opportunities for improvements and applications to fields other than weak gravitational lensing, are discussed.

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