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观测策略优化的一个基于信息的度量,在光度红移的背景下证明,并应用于宇宙学

An information-based metric for observing strategy optimization, demonstrated in the context of photometric redshifts with applications to cosmology

Alex I. Malz, François Lanusse, John Franklin Crenshaw, Melissa L. Graham

摘要:

星系巡天的观测策略会影响其所得数据可用于实现任何科学目标的程度。因此,LSST正在寻求多个科学案例的观察策略的度量,以便最佳地选择节奏。光度红移对于LSST数据的许多河外科学应用是必不可少的,包括但不限于宇宙学,但可用的度量很少,并且它们不能直接与其他可能影响任何给定用例的依赖于节奏的量的度量相结合。我们提出了一个度量观测策略优化的基础上潜在的可恢复的互信息的红移光度样品的约束下,一个现实的观测策略。我们证明了一个易于处理的估计变的下界,这种互信息的公共代码中使用条件规范化流。通过比较可恢复的红移信息的观测策略,我们可以区分那些排除强大的红移约束和那些数据将保留更多的红移信息,一般用于下游分析。我们建议使用这个多功能的度量来观察依赖红移的河外用例的策略优化,包括但不限于宇宙学,以及任何其他科学应用,其中测光可以从红移之外的真实参数值建模。

英文摘要:

The observing strategy of a galaxy survey influences the degree to which its resulting data can be used to accomplish any science goal. LSST is thus seeking metrics of observing strategies for multiple science cases in order to optimally choose a cadence. Photometric redshifts are essential for many extragalactic science applications of LSST's data, including but not limited to cosmology, but there are few metrics available, and they are not straightforwardly integrated with metrics of other cadence-dependent quantities that may influence any given use case. We propose a metric for observing strategy optimization based on the potentially recoverable mutual information about redshift from a photometric sample under the constraints of a realistic observing strategy. We demonstrate a tractable estimation of a variational lower bound of this mutual information implemented in a public code using conditional normalizing flows. By comparing the recoverable redshift information across observing strategies, we can distinguish between those that preclude robust redshift constraints and those whose data will preserve more redshift information, to be generically utilized in a downstream analysis. We recommend the use of this versatile metric to observing strategy optimization for redshift-dependent extragalactic use cases, including but not limited to cosmology, as well as any other science applications for which photometry may be modeled from true parameter values beyond redshift.

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