Optimal data compression for Lyman-$α$ forest cosmology
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| author | Gerardi, Francesca Cuceu, Andrei Joachimi, Benjamin Nadathur, Seshadri Font-Ribera, Andreu |
| author_facet | Gerardi, Francesca Cuceu, Andrei Joachimi, Benjamin Nadathur, Seshadri Font-Ribera, Andreu |
| contents | The Lyman-$α$ (Ly$α$) three-dimensional correlation functions have been widely used to perform cosmological inference using the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale. While the traditional inference approach employs a data vector with several thousand data points, we apply near-maximal score compression down to tens of compressed data elements. We show that carefully constructed additional data beyond those linked to each inferred model parameter are required to preserve meaningful goodness-of-fit tests that guard against unknown systematics, and to avoid information loss due to non-linear parameter dependencies. We demonstrate, on suites of realistic mocks and DR16 data from the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, that our compression approach is lossless and unbiased, yielding a posterior that is indistinguishable from that of the traditional analysis. As an early application, we investigate the impact of a covariance matrix estimated from a limited number of mocks, which is only well-conditioned in compressed space. |
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| spellingShingle | Optimal data compression for Lyman-$α$ forest cosmology Gerardi, Francesca Cuceu, Andrei Joachimi, Benjamin Nadathur, Seshadri Font-Ribera, Andreu Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics The Lyman-$α$ (Ly$α$) three-dimensional correlation functions have been widely used to perform cosmological inference using the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale. While the traditional inference approach employs a data vector with several thousand data points, we apply near-maximal score compression down to tens of compressed data elements. We show that carefully constructed additional data beyond those linked to each inferred model parameter are required to preserve meaningful goodness-of-fit tests that guard against unknown systematics, and to avoid information loss due to non-linear parameter dependencies. We demonstrate, on suites of realistic mocks and DR16 data from the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, that our compression approach is lossless and unbiased, yielding a posterior that is indistinguishable from that of the traditional analysis. As an early application, we investigate the impact of a covariance matrix estimated from a limited number of mocks, which is only well-conditioned in compressed space. |
| title | Optimal data compression for Lyman-$α$ forest cosmology |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13164 |