Rapid Spectral Parameter Prediction for Black Hole X-Ray Binaries using Physicalised Autoencoders
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| author | Tregidga, Ethan Steiner, James Garraffo, Cecilia Rhea, Carter Aubin, Mayeul |
| author_facet | Tregidga, Ethan Steiner, James Garraffo, Cecilia Rhea, Carter Aubin, Mayeul |
| contents | Black hole X-ray binaries (BHBs) offer insights into extreme gravitational environments and the testing of general relativity. The X-ray spectrum collected by NICER offers valuable information on the properties and behaviour of BHBs through spectral fitting. However, traditional spectral fitting methods are slow and scale poorly with model complexity. This paper presents a new semi-supervised autoencoder neural network for parameter prediction and spectral reconstruction of BHBs, showing an improvement of up to a factor of 2,700 in speed while maintaining comparable accuracy. The approach maps the spectral features from the numerous outbursts catalogued by NICER and generalises them to new systems for efficient and accurate spectral fitting. The effectiveness of this approach is demonstrated in the spectral fitting of BHBs and holds promise for use in other areas of astronomy and physics for categorising large datasets. |
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| spellingShingle | Rapid Spectral Parameter Prediction for Black Hole X-Ray Binaries using Physicalised Autoencoders Tregidga, Ethan Steiner, James Garraffo, Cecilia Rhea, Carter Aubin, Mayeul Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Black hole X-ray binaries (BHBs) offer insights into extreme gravitational environments and the testing of general relativity. The X-ray spectrum collected by NICER offers valuable information on the properties and behaviour of BHBs through spectral fitting. However, traditional spectral fitting methods are slow and scale poorly with model complexity. This paper presents a new semi-supervised autoencoder neural network for parameter prediction and spectral reconstruction of BHBs, showing an improvement of up to a factor of 2,700 in speed while maintaining comparable accuracy. The approach maps the spectral features from the numerous outbursts catalogued by NICER and generalises them to new systems for efficient and accurate spectral fitting. The effectiveness of this approach is demonstrated in the spectral fitting of BHBs and holds promise for use in other areas of astronomy and physics for categorising large datasets. |
| title | Rapid Spectral Parameter Prediction for Black Hole X-Ray Binaries using Physicalised Autoencoders |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17249 |