arXiv:2409.07957physics.comp-phastro-ph.IM2024-09被引 3

用机器学习加速极端质量比并合引力波参数估计,快数十倍且无偏。

Rapid Parameter Estimation for Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals Using Machine Learning

  • 基于神经微分方程的流匹配方法,直接学习引力波后验分布。
  • 处理高达17个参数的高维空间,计算速度比传统MCMC快数个数量级。
  • 首次将连续归一化流应用于EMRI信号分析,适合空间引力波探测研究者。

极端质量比并合(EMRI)信号因其低频特性与高度复杂的波形,在引力波天文学中面临巨大挑战,其波形占据高维参数空间,包含众多变量。由于长期演化周期和低信噪比,需长时间观测,而传统匹配滤波与随机采样方法在处理此类信号时,因参数非局部退化、似然函数存在平坦区域与脊线,导致计算复杂度极高。本文采用机器学习技术,基于基于常微分方程的神经网络构建流匹配方法,实现对EMRI信号的贝叶斯后验估计。结果表明,该方法在保持参数估计无偏的前提下,计算效率比传统马尔可夫链蒙特卡洛(MCMC)方法快数个数量级,能有效处理多达17个参数的高维空间。据我们所知,这是首次将连续归一化流(CNFs)应用于EMRI信号分析,为未来空间引力波探测与引力波天文学提供了新思路。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) signals pose significant challenges in gravitational wave (GW) astronomy owing to their low-frequency nature and highly complex waveforms, which occupy a high-dimensional parameter space with numerous variables. Given their extended inspiral timescales and low signal-to-noise ratios, EMRI signals warrant prolonged observation periods. Parameter estimation becomes particularly challenging due to non-local parameter degeneracies, arising from multiple local maxima, as well as flat regions and ridges inherent in the likelihood function. These factors lead to exceptionally high time complexity for parameter analysis while employing traditional matched filtering and random sampling methods. To address these challenges, the present study applies machine learning to Bayesian posterior estimation of EMRI signals, leveraging the recently developed flow matching technique based on ODE neural networks. Our approach demonstrates computational efficiency several orders of magnitude faster than the traditional Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, while preserving the unbiasedness of parameter estimation. We show that machine learning technology has the potential to efficiently handle the vast parameter space, involving up to seventeen parameters, associated with EMRI signals. Furthermore, to our knowledge, this is the first instance of applying machine learning, specifically the Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs), to EMRI signal analysis. Our findings highlight the promising potential of machine learning in EMRI waveform analysis, offering new perspectives for the advancement of space-based GW detection and GW astronomy.

引力波机器学习参数估计EMRI

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