Inferring Black Hole Properties from Astronomical Multivariate Time Series with Bayesian Attentive Neural Processes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01450v1
• Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 20:17:31 GMT
• Title: Inferring Black Hole Properties from Astronomical Multivariate Time Series with Bayesian Attentive Neural Processes
• Authors: Ji Won Park, Ashley Villar, Yin Li, Yan-Fei Jiang, Shirley Ho, Joshua Yao-Yu Lin, Philip J. Marshall, Aaron Roodman
• Abstract summary: We present a method that reconstructs the AGN time series and simultaneously infers the posterior probability density distribution. This work is the first to address probabilistic time series reconstruction and parameter inference for AGN in an end-to-end fashion.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Among the most extreme objects in the Universe, active galactic nuclei (AGN) are luminous centers of galaxies where a black hole feeds on surrounding matter. The variability patterns of the light emitted by an AGN contain information about the physical properties of the underlying black hole. Upcoming telescopes will observe over 100 million AGN in multiple broadband wavelengths, yielding a large sample of multivariate time series with long gaps and irregular sampling. We present a method that reconstructs the AGN time series and simultaneously infers the posterior probability density distribution (PDF) over the physical quantities of the black hole, including its mass and luminosity. We apply this method to a simulated dataset of 11,000 AGN and report precision and accuracy of 0.4 dex and 0.3 dex in the inferred black hole mass. This work is the first to address probabilistic time series reconstruction and parameter inference for AGN in an end-to-end fashion.

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