用神经场模型从2D图像重建宇宙暗物质3D分布,突破单视角限制。
Revealing the 3D Cosmic Web through Gravitationally Constrained Neural Fields
- 基于物理可微模型,通过反向合成优化神经网络权重
- 在模拟数据上实现比现有方法更优的3D暗物质重建
- 能发现潜在新结构,适合宇宙学与天文观测研究者
弱引力透镜是星系形状因宇宙中暗物质引力效应产生的微小畸变。本文旨在从二维望远镜图像中反演弱透镜信号,重建宇宙暗物质场的三维地图。传统反演通常仅得到二维投影,而精确的三维分布对定位结构和检验宇宙理论至关重要。然而,3D反演面临两大挑战:一是观测仅来自单一视角,二是未透镜星系的形状与位置未知,估计误差引入巨大噪声,几乎淹没透镜信号。以往方法依赖强先验假设,本文提出使用引力约束神经场,以分析-合成方式,通过全可微物理前向模型优化网络权重,重现观测中的透镜信号。我们在包含真实模拟测量的仿真数据上验证了该方法,结果表明其不仅优于现有方法,还能恢复潜在的新奇暗物质结构。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Weak gravitational lensing is the slight distortion of galaxy shapes caused primarily by the gravitational effects of dark matter in the universe. In our work, we seek to invert the weak lensing signal from 2D telescope images to reconstruct a 3D map of the universe's dark matter field. While inversion typically yields a 2D projection of the dark matter field, accurate 3D maps of the dark matter distribution are essential for localizing structures of interest and testing theories of our universe. However, 3D inversion poses significant challenges. First, unlike standard 3D reconstruction that relies on multiple viewpoints, in this case, images are only observed from a single viewpoint. This challenge can be partially addressed by observing how galaxy emitters throughout the volume are lensed. However, this leads to the second challenge: the shapes and exact locations of unlensed galaxies are unknown, and can only be estimated with a very large degree of uncertainty. This introduces an overwhelming amount of noise which nearly drowns out the lensing signal completely. Previous approaches tackle this by imposing strong assumptions about the structures in the volume. We instead propose a methodology using a gravitationally-constrained neural field to flexibly model the continuous matter distribution. We take an analysis-by-synthesis approach, optimizing the weights of the neural network through a fully differentiable physical forward model to reproduce the lensing signal present in image measurements. We showcase our method on simulations, including realistic simulated measurements of dark matter distributions that mimic data from upcoming telescope surveys. Our results show that our method can not only outperform previous methods, but importantly is also able to recover potentially surprising dark matter structures.
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