Circuit Modeling for In Situ 21 cm Radiometer Calibration
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| author | Allen, Gary Vincent Charles Pegwal, Saurabh de Villiers, Dirk Anstey, Dominic Artuc, Kaan Bevins, Harry Bernardi, Gianni Bucher, Martin Carey, Steve Cavillot, Jean Chiello, Ricardo Chu, Adele Croukamp, Wessel Cumner, John Dash, Ardash Dasgupta, Saswata Acedo, Eloy de Lera Dhandha, Jiten Dragovic, Aleksandra Ely, John Fialkov, Anastasia Gessey-Jones, Thomas Handley, Will Kirkham, Christian Kulkarny, Girish Leeney, Samuel Magro, Alessio Meerburg, Daan Mittal, Shikhar Molnar, Daniel Patel, Rohan Pattison, Joe Pieterse, Carla Pritchard, Jonathan Rajpoot, Gabriella Razavi-Ghods, Nima Robins, Daniel Roque, Ian Saxena, Anchal Scheutwinkel, Killian Scott, Paul Shen, Emma Sims, Peter Spinelli, Marta Zhu, Jiacong |
| author_facet | Allen, Gary Vincent Charles Pegwal, Saurabh de Villiers, Dirk Anstey, Dominic Artuc, Kaan Bevins, Harry Bernardi, Gianni Bucher, Martin Carey, Steve Cavillot, Jean Chiello, Ricardo Chu, Adele Croukamp, Wessel Cumner, John Dash, Ardash Dasgupta, Saswata Acedo, Eloy de Lera Dhandha, Jiten Dragovic, Aleksandra Ely, John Fialkov, Anastasia Gessey-Jones, Thomas Handley, Will Kirkham, Christian Kulkarny, Girish Leeney, Samuel Magro, Alessio Meerburg, Daan Mittal, Shikhar Molnar, Daniel Patel, Rohan Pattison, Joe Pieterse, Carla Pritchard, Jonathan Rajpoot, Gabriella Razavi-Ghods, Nima Robins, Daniel Roque, Ian Saxena, Anchal Scheutwinkel, Killian Scott, Paul Shen, Emma Sims, Peter Spinelli, Marta Zhu, Jiacong |
| contents | Recent experiments in cosmology, particularly those aimed at detecting the faint, redshifted, global 21 cm hydrogen line (depth < ~200 mK, z > 7.5), have imposed stringent new requirements on radiometer calibration. In this work, we present a framework for circuit modeling and parameter inference to strengthen these calibration pipelines. This new approach enables in situ characterization of otherwise immeasurable systematics using physically motivated models. A combination of frequentist and Bayesian techniques are employed in a pipeline that supports iterative modeling, robust parameter estimation, and detailed uncertainty quantification. The framework is applied to the REACH telescope, where the precise correction of variations in the radio signal paths arising from component aging or environmental effects is critical. Circuit models of REACH's calibration sources are developed, with the goal of predicting source temperature corrections that are conventionally obtained from laboratory measurements. By fitting the models to measured data using a convolutional cost function, a strong agreement with RMS residuals no worse than -37 dB is obtained. However, Bayesian inference reveals that the resulting temperature corrections can have uncertainties on the order of 1 to 2 K, caused by reflection coefficient degeneracies, measurement noise, and errors in the models. To combat this, posteriors obtained from laboratory measurements are employed as updated priors, reducing correction uncertainties down to 75 mK. Ultimately, the framework provides a means of dynamically accounting for drift in system non-idealities over time, addressing the increasing precision demands of global 21 cm radio astronomy. |
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| spellingShingle | Circuit Modeling for In Situ 21 cm Radiometer Calibration Allen, Gary Vincent Charles Pegwal, Saurabh de Villiers, Dirk Anstey, Dominic Artuc, Kaan Bevins, Harry Bernardi, Gianni Bucher, Martin Carey, Steve Cavillot, Jean Chiello, Ricardo Chu, Adele Croukamp, Wessel Cumner, John Dash, Ardash Dasgupta, Saswata Acedo, Eloy de Lera Dhandha, Jiten Dragovic, Aleksandra Ely, John Fialkov, Anastasia Gessey-Jones, Thomas Handley, Will Kirkham, Christian Kulkarny, Girish Leeney, Samuel Magro, Alessio Meerburg, Daan Mittal, Shikhar Molnar, Daniel Patel, Rohan Pattison, Joe Pieterse, Carla Pritchard, Jonathan Rajpoot, Gabriella Razavi-Ghods, Nima Robins, Daniel Roque, Ian Saxena, Anchal Scheutwinkel, Killian Scott, Paul Shen, Emma Sims, Peter Spinelli, Marta Zhu, Jiacong Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Recent experiments in cosmology, particularly those aimed at detecting the faint, redshifted, global 21 cm hydrogen line (depth < ~200 mK, z > 7.5), have imposed stringent new requirements on radiometer calibration. In this work, we present a framework for circuit modeling and parameter inference to strengthen these calibration pipelines. This new approach enables in situ characterization of otherwise immeasurable systematics using physically motivated models. A combination of frequentist and Bayesian techniques are employed in a pipeline that supports iterative modeling, robust parameter estimation, and detailed uncertainty quantification. The framework is applied to the REACH telescope, where the precise correction of variations in the radio signal paths arising from component aging or environmental effects is critical. Circuit models of REACH's calibration sources are developed, with the goal of predicting source temperature corrections that are conventionally obtained from laboratory measurements. By fitting the models to measured data using a convolutional cost function, a strong agreement with RMS residuals no worse than -37 dB is obtained. However, Bayesian inference reveals that the resulting temperature corrections can have uncertainties on the order of 1 to 2 K, caused by reflection coefficient degeneracies, measurement noise, and errors in the models. To combat this, posteriors obtained from laboratory measurements are employed as updated priors, reducing correction uncertainties down to 75 mK. Ultimately, the framework provides a means of dynamically accounting for drift in system non-idealities over time, addressing the increasing precision demands of global 21 cm radio astronomy. |
| title | Circuit Modeling for In Situ 21 cm Radiometer Calibration |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15072 |