arXiv:2607.09867astro-ph.IMastro-ph.CO2026-07

用神经后验估计直接从图像推断引力透镜剪切,一步完成全链路校准。

Neural Posterior Estimation for Inferring Weak Lensing Shear

论文配图:Neural Posterior Estimation for Inferring Weak Lensing Shear
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  • 用深度网络将多波段图像映射到剪切场的变分后验分布
  • 在复杂观测效应下仍能准确校准两个剪切分量的后验分布
  • 适合高保真模拟场景,未来可替代传统分步测量流程

当前从图像推断弱引力透镜剪切的方法通常包括星系检测、椭圆率估计及对图像噪声、选择偏差和模型误设的校准,但该流程各阶段的统计建模与假设难以刻画,导致不确定性传播困难。本文提出采用神经后验估计(NPE)这一类基于模拟的推断方法,训练深度神经网络将模拟的多波段图像映射至潜在剪切场的变分后验分布,从而将星系检测、去混叠、测量与校准整合为单一隐式推断步骤。训练完成后,网络自动捕获模拟图像中的所有特征,包括潜在偏差来源。在含渐进复杂观测效应的模拟常剪切图像上测试表明,即使存在星系重叠、空间变化的点扩散函数、恒星和探测器伪影,NPE仍能对两个剪切分量生成准确且校准良好的后验近似。结果表明,在所有预期特征与伪影均可模拟的前提下,NPE可成为可靠的剪切估计方法,而这一条件在未来数十年内将越来越可行。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The prevailing approach to inferring weak gravitational lensing shear from images involves detecting galaxies, estimating their ellipticities, and calibrating these estimates to correct for image noise, selection bias, and model misspecification. Characterizing the statistical model and assumptions underlying this pipeline is challenging, which makes it difficult to propagate uncertainty through its various stages. As an alternative, we propose to infer shear using neural posterior estimation (NPE), a type of simulation-based inference. We train a deep neural network to map a simulated multiband image to a variational distribution over the underlying shear field, thereby folding galaxy detection, deblending, measurement, and calibration into a single implicit inference step. Once trained, the network accounts for all features present in the simulated images, including potential sources of bias. In experiments on simulated constant-shear images with increasingly complex observational effects, NPE produces accurate and well-calibrated posterior approximations for both shear components in the presence of blended galaxies, spatially varying point spread functions, stars, and detector artifacts. These results demonstrate that NPE can be a viable shear estimation method in settings where all anticipated features and artifacts can be simulated, a requirement that will become increasingly feasible as simulation fidelity improves in the coming decades.

引力透镜神经推断后验估计图像分析

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