Accelerating Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds Parameter Estimation in Pulsar Timing Arrays with Flow Matching
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| author | Liang, Bo Liu, Chang Zhao, Tianyu Du, Minghui Liang, Manjia Shi, Ruijun Guo, Hong Xu, Yuxiang Qiang, Li-e Xu, Peng Qian, Wei-Liang Luo, Ziren |
| author_facet | Liang, Bo Liu, Chang Zhao, Tianyu Du, Minghui Liang, Manjia Shi, Ruijun Guo, Hong Xu, Yuxiang Qiang, Li-e Xu, Peng Qian, Wei-Liang Luo, Ziren |
| contents | Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are essential tools for detecting the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), but their analysis faces significant computational challenges. Traditional methods like Markov-chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) struggle with high-dimensional parameter spaces where noise parameters often dominate, while existing deep learning approaches fail to model the Hellings-Downs (HD) correlation or are validated only on synthetic datasets. We propose a flow-matching-based continuous normalizing flow (CNF) for efficient and accurate PTA parameter estimation. By focusing on the 10 most contributive pulsars from the NANOGrav 15-year dataset, our method achieves posteriors consistent with MCMC, with a Jensen-Shannon divergence below \(10^{-2}\) nat, while reducing sampling time from 50 hours to 4 minutes. Powered by a versatile embedding network and a reweighting loss function, our approach prioritizes the SGWB parameters and scales effectively for future datasets. It enables precise reconstruction of SGWB and opens new avenues for exploring vast observational data and uncovering potential new physics, offering a transformative tool for advancing gravitational wave astronomy. |
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| spellingShingle | Accelerating Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds Parameter Estimation in Pulsar Timing Arrays with Flow Matching Liang, Bo Liu, Chang Zhao, Tianyu Du, Minghui Liang, Manjia Shi, Ruijun Guo, Hong Xu, Yuxiang Qiang, Li-e Xu, Peng Qian, Wei-Liang Luo, Ziren Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Computational Physics Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are essential tools for detecting the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), but their analysis faces significant computational challenges. Traditional methods like Markov-chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) struggle with high-dimensional parameter spaces where noise parameters often dominate, while existing deep learning approaches fail to model the Hellings-Downs (HD) correlation or are validated only on synthetic datasets. We propose a flow-matching-based continuous normalizing flow (CNF) for efficient and accurate PTA parameter estimation. By focusing on the 10 most contributive pulsars from the NANOGrav 15-year dataset, our method achieves posteriors consistent with MCMC, with a Jensen-Shannon divergence below \(10^{-2}\) nat, while reducing sampling time from 50 hours to 4 minutes. Powered by a versatile embedding network and a reweighting loss function, our approach prioritizes the SGWB parameters and scales effectively for future datasets. It enables precise reconstruction of SGWB and opens new avenues for exploring vast observational data and uncovering potential new physics, offering a transformative tool for advancing gravitational wave astronomy. |
| title | Accelerating Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds Parameter Estimation in Pulsar Timing Arrays with Flow Matching |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19169 |