Inferring the redshift of more than 150 GRBs with a Machine Learning Ensemble model
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| author | Dainotti, Maria Giovanna Taira, Elias Wang, Eric Lehman, Elias Narendra, Aditya Pollo, Agnieszka Madejski, Grzegorz M. Petrosian, Vahe Bogdan, Malgorzata Dey, Apratim Bhardwaj, Shubham |
| author_facet | Dainotti, Maria Giovanna Taira, Elias Wang, Eric Lehman, Elias Narendra, Aditya Pollo, Agnieszka Madejski, Grzegorz M. Petrosian, Vahe Bogdan, Malgorzata Dey, Apratim Bhardwaj, Shubham |
| contents | Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), due to their high luminosities are detected up to redshift 10, and thus have the potential to be vital cosmological probes of early processes in the universe. Fulfilling this potential requires a large sample of GRBs with known redshifts, but due to observational limitations, only 11\% have known redshifts ($z$). There have been numerous attempts to estimate redshifts via correlation studies, most of which have led to inaccurate predictions. To overcome this, we estimated GRB redshift via an ensemble supervised machine learning model that uses X-ray afterglows of long-duration GRBs observed by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The estimated redshifts are strongly correlated (a Pearson coefficient of 0.93) and have a root mean square error, namely the square root of the average squared error $\langleΔz^2\rangle$, of 0.46 with the observed redshifts showing the reliability of this method. The addition of GRB afterglow parameters improves the predictions considerably by 63\% compared to previous results in peer-reviewed literature. Finally, we use our machine learning model to infer the redshifts of 154 GRBs, which increase the known redshifts of long GRBs with plateaus by 94\%, a significant milestone for enhancing GRB population studies that require large samples with redshift. |
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| spellingShingle | Inferring the redshift of more than 150 GRBs with a Machine Learning Ensemble model Dainotti, Maria Giovanna Taira, Elias Wang, Eric Lehman, Elias Narendra, Aditya Pollo, Agnieszka Madejski, Grzegorz M. Petrosian, Vahe Bogdan, Malgorzata Dey, Apratim Bhardwaj, Shubham Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), due to their high luminosities are detected up to redshift 10, and thus have the potential to be vital cosmological probes of early processes in the universe. Fulfilling this potential requires a large sample of GRBs with known redshifts, but due to observational limitations, only 11\% have known redshifts ($z$). There have been numerous attempts to estimate redshifts via correlation studies, most of which have led to inaccurate predictions. To overcome this, we estimated GRB redshift via an ensemble supervised machine learning model that uses X-ray afterglows of long-duration GRBs observed by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The estimated redshifts are strongly correlated (a Pearson coefficient of 0.93) and have a root mean square error, namely the square root of the average squared error $\langleΔz^2\rangle$, of 0.46 with the observed redshifts showing the reliability of this method. The addition of GRB afterglow parameters improves the predictions considerably by 63\% compared to previous results in peer-reviewed literature. Finally, we use our machine learning model to infer the redshifts of 154 GRBs, which increase the known redshifts of long GRBs with plateaus by 94\%, a significant milestone for enhancing GRB population studies that require large samples with redshift. |
| title | Inferring the redshift of more than 150 GRBs with a Machine Learning Ensemble model |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03589 |