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Title: Emulating Simulations of Cosmic Dawn for 21 cm Power Spectrum Constraints on Cosmology, Reionization, and X-Ray Heating

Abstract

Current and upcoming radio interferometric experiments are aiming to make a statistical characterization of the high-redshift 21 cm fluctuation signal spanning the hydrogen reionization and X-ray heating epochs of the universe. However, connecting 21 cm statistics to the underlying physical parameters is complicated by the theoretical challenge of modeling the relevant physics at computational speeds quick enough to enable exploration of the high-dimensional and weakly constrained parameter space. In this study, we use machine learning algorithms to build a fast emulator that can accurately mimic an expensive simulation of the 21 cm signal across a wide parameter space. We embed our emulator within a Markov Chain Monte Carlo framework in order to perform Bayesian parameter constraints over a large number of model parameters, including those that govern the Epoch of Reionization, the Epoch of X-ray Heating, and cosmology. As a worked example, we use our emulator to present an updated parameter constraint forecast for the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array experiment, showing that its characterization of a fiducial 21 cm power spectrum will considerably narrow the allowed parameter space of reionization and heating parameters, and could help strengthen Planck's constraints on $${\sigma }_{8}$$. We provide both our generalized emulator code and its implementation specifically for 21 cm parameter constraints as publicly available software.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [2];  [2]
  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Astronomy and Radio Astronomy Lab.
  2. Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Pisa (Italy)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1524233
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
The Astrophysical Journal (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal (Online); Journal Volume: 848; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; dark ages; reionization; first stars; methods: numerical; methods: statistical

Citation Formats

Kern, Nicholas S., Liu, Adrian, Parsons, Aaron R., Mesinger, Andrei, and Greig, Bradley. Emulating Simulations of Cosmic Dawn for 21 cm Power Spectrum Constraints on Cosmology, Reionization, and X-Ray Heating. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa8bb4.
Kern, Nicholas S., Liu, Adrian, Parsons, Aaron R., Mesinger, Andrei, & Greig, Bradley. Emulating Simulations of Cosmic Dawn for 21 cm Power Spectrum Constraints on Cosmology, Reionization, and X-Ray Heating. United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8bb4
Kern, Nicholas S., Liu, Adrian, Parsons, Aaron R., Mesinger, Andrei, and Greig, Bradley. Fri . "Emulating Simulations of Cosmic Dawn for 21 cm Power Spectrum Constraints on Cosmology, Reionization, and X-Ray Heating". United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8bb4. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1524233.
@article{osti_1524233,
title = {Emulating Simulations of Cosmic Dawn for 21 cm Power Spectrum Constraints on Cosmology, Reionization, and X-Ray Heating},
author = {Kern, Nicholas S. and Liu, Adrian and Parsons, Aaron R. and Mesinger, Andrei and Greig, Bradley},
abstractNote = {Current and upcoming radio interferometric experiments are aiming to make a statistical characterization of the high-redshift 21 cm fluctuation signal spanning the hydrogen reionization and X-ray heating epochs of the universe. However, connecting 21 cm statistics to the underlying physical parameters is complicated by the theoretical challenge of modeling the relevant physics at computational speeds quick enough to enable exploration of the high-dimensional and weakly constrained parameter space. In this study, we use machine learning algorithms to build a fast emulator that can accurately mimic an expensive simulation of the 21 cm signal across a wide parameter space. We embed our emulator within a Markov Chain Monte Carlo framework in order to perform Bayesian parameter constraints over a large number of model parameters, including those that govern the Epoch of Reionization, the Epoch of X-ray Heating, and cosmology. As a worked example, we use our emulator to present an updated parameter constraint forecast for the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array experiment, showing that its characterization of a fiducial 21 cm power spectrum will considerably narrow the allowed parameter space of reionization and heating parameters, and could help strengthen Planck's constraints on ${\sigma }_{8}$. We provide both our generalized emulator code and its implementation specifically for 21 cm parameter constraints as publicly available software.},
doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/aa8bb4},
journal = {The Astrophysical Journal (Online)},
number = 1,
volume = 848,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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Figure 1 Figure 1: Top: scree plot showing the eigenvalues of the 30 principal components formed from the training data of ln $Δ^{2}_{21}$ . Bottom: the first nine principal components of the power spectrum data at each unique $k$–$z$ combination. The color scale is artificially normalized to [−1, 1] for easier comparison.

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Fast large volume simulations of the 21-cm signal from the reionization and pre-reionization epochs: Fast large volume simulations of 21-cm signal
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Intelligent Design: on the Emulation of Cosmological Simulations
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Analysing the 21 cm signal from the epoch of reionization with artificial neural networks
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Inhomogeneous recombinations during cosmic reionization
journal, March 2014

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Constraints on the star formation efficiency of galaxies during the epoch of reionization
journal, April 2016

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ERASING THE VARIABLE: EMPIRICAL FOREGROUND DISCOVERY FOR GLOBAL 21 cm SPECTRUM EXPERIMENTS
journal, September 2014


Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
journal, September 2013


Fast large-scale reionization simulations
journal, February 2009

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CONFIRMATION OF WIDE-FIELD SIGNATURES IN REDSHIFTED 21 cm POWER SPECTRA
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FOREGROUNDS IN WIDE-FIELD REDSHIFTED 21 cm POWER SPECTRA
journal, April 2015

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A Study of Fundamental Limitations to Statistical Detection of Redshifted h i from the Epoch of Reionization
journal, September 2013

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Radio Signatures of H i at High Redshift: Mapping the End of the “Dark Ages”
journal, January 2000

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Computer Simulations of Cosmic Reionization
journal, February 2011


THE IMPACT OF POINT-SOURCE SUBTRACTION RESIDUALS ON 21 cm EPOCH OF REIONIZATION ESTIMATION
journal, September 2012

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Lunar occultation of the diffuse radio sky: LOFAR measurements between 35 and 80 MHz
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Imaging the Epoch of Reionization: Limitations from Foreground Confusion and Imaging Algorithms
journal, January 2012

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Modification of the 21-cm power spectrum by X-rays during the epoch of reionization
journal, June 2009


The effect of foreground subtraction on cosmological measurements from intensity mapping
journal, May 2014

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On the excitation mechanism of the 21-cm (radio-frequency) interstellar hydrogen emission line.
journal, January 1952

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Galaxy Properties and uv Escape Fractions During the Epoch of Reionization: Results from the Renaissance Simulations
journal, December 2016


Simulations and Analytic Calculations of Bubble Growth during Hydrogen Reionization
journal, January 2007

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Comparison of reionization models: radiative transfer simulations and approximate, seminumeric models: Comparison of reionization models
journal, April 2011


Cosmic Microwave Background Constraints on the Duration and Timing of Reionization from the South pole Telescope
journal, August 2012


Planck 2015 results : XXIII. The thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect-cosmic infrared background correlation
journal, September 2016


Charting the parameter space of the global 21-cm signal
text, January 2017

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Planck 2015 results : XVI. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB
journal, September 2016


Fast Prediction and Evaluation of Gravitational Waveforms Using Surrogate Models
text, January 2014

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Planck 2015 results : XXVI. The Second
journal, September 2016


Fast Large-Scale Reionization Simulations
text, January 2008


Reionization and Cosmology with 21 cm Fluctuations
text, January 2009


Bright Source Subtraction Requirements For Redshifted 21 cm Measurements
text, January 2010


Background reionization history from omniscopes
text, January 2012


A study of fundamental limitations to statistical detection of redshifted HI from the epoch of reionization
text, January 2013


Reionization and Beyond: detecting the peaks of the cosmological 21cm signal
text, January 2013


What Next-Generation 21 cm Power Spectrum Measurements Can Teach Us About the Epoch of Reionization
text, January 2013


Lunar occultation of the diffuse radio sky: LOFAR measurements between 35 and 80 MHz
text, January 2014


Calibrating a large computer experiment simulating radiative shock hydrodynamics
text, January 2014


Model-independent evidence in favor of an end to reionization by z~6
text, January 2014


Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters
text, January 2015


PAPER-64 Constraints on Reionization: The 21cm Power Spectrum at z=8.4
text, January 2015


Confirmation of Wide-Field Signatures in Redshifted 21 cm Power Spectra
text, January 2015


Constraints on the temperature of the intergalactic medium at z=8.4 with 21-cm observations
text, January 2015


Quantifying discordance in the 2015 Planck CMB spectrum
text, January 2015


First Limits on the 21 cm Power Spectrum during the Epoch of X-ray heating
text, January 2016


Simulating the Impact of X-ray Heating during the Cosmic Dawn
text, January 2016


First Season MWA EoR Power Spectrum Results at Redshift 7
text, January 2016


Charting the Parameter Space of the Global 21-cm Signal
text, January 2016


The Impact of Modeling Errors on Interferometer Calibration for 21 cm Power Spectra
text, January 2016


Cosmological Parameter Estimation Using 21 cm Radiation from the Epoch of Reionization
text, January 2005


Radio Signatures of HI at High Redshift: Mapping the End of the ``Dark Ages''
text, January 1999


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