Bayesian evidence-driven likelihood selection for sky-averaged 21-cm signal extraction

Author:

Scheutwinkel K. H.ORCID,Handley W.ORCID,de Lera Acedo E.ORCID

Abstract

AbstractWe demonstrate that the Bayesian evidence can be used to find a good approximation of the ground truth likelihood function of a dataset, a goal of the likelihood-free inference (LFI) paradigm. As a concrete example, we use forward modelled sky-averaged 21-cm signal antenna temperature datasets where we artificially inject noise structures of various physically motivated forms. We find that the Gaussian likelihood performs poorly when the noise distribution deviates from the Gaussian case, for example, heteroscedastic radiometric or heavy-tailed noise. For these non-Gaussian noise structures, we show that the generalised normal likelihood is on a similar Bayesian evidence scale with comparable sky-averaged 21-cm signal recovery as the ground truth likelihood function of our injected noise. We therefore propose the generalised normal likelihood function as a good approximation of the true likelihood function if the noise structure is a priori unknown.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics

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