globalemu : a novel and robust approach for emulating the sky-averaged 21-cm signal from the cosmic dawn and epoch of reionization
globalemu : a novel and robust approach for emulating the sky-averaged 21-cm signal from the cosmic dawn and epoch of reionization
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globalemu:一种新颖而强大的方法,用于模拟来自宇宙黎明和再电离时代的天空平均 21 厘米信号
DOI:
10.1093/mnras/stab2737
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Bevins H
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作者:
Bevins H
Emulation of the Global (sky-averaged) 21-cm signal with neural networks has been shown to be an essential tool for physical signal modelling. In this paper, we presentglobalemu, a Global 21-cm signal emulator that uses redshift as a character-defining variable alongside a set of astrophysical parameters to estimate the signal brightness temperature. Combined with physically motivated data pre-processing, this makes for a reliable and fast emulator that is relatively insensitive to the network design.globalemucan emulate a high-resolution signal in 1.3 ms in comparison to 133 ms, a factor of 102 improvement, when using the existing public state-of-the-art21cmGEM. We illustrate, with the standard astrophysical models used to train21cmGEM, thatglobalemuis almost twice as accurate and for a test set of ≈1700 signals we achieve a mean root mean squared error of 2.52 mK across the bandz= 7–28 [≈10 per cent the expected noise of the Radio Experiment for the Analysis of Cosmic Hydrogen (REACH)]. The models are parametrized by the star formation efficiency,f*, minimum virial circular velocity,Vc, X-ray efficiency,fX, cosmic microwave background optical depth, τ, the slope and low energy cut-off of the X-ray spectral energy density, α andνmin, respectively, and the mean free path of ionizing photons,Rmfp.globalemuprovides a flexible framework for easily emulating updated simulations of the Global signal and in addition the neutral fraction history. The emulator is pip installable and available at https://github.com/htjb/globalemu.globalemuwill be used extensively by the REACH collaboration.