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Applying Bayesian analysis to polarisation data

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Outline

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Polarisation simulations @ radio wavebands Bayesian analysis Analysis of polarisation data Conclusions

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Radio sky simulations
Over view

Basic ingredients:
· Background/foreground polarised radio sources · Inter vening Faraday foreground screens

Adding complexity:
· Sources of polarised emission with intrinsic rotation

measures (radio halos and relics in LSS, galaxy disks and halos, AGN radio lobes etc.) Analysis challenge:
· Projection effects (tomography generally needs: prior

information; a large number of sources in the field) Large bandwidth, high sensitivity and high frequency and angular resolution are required
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Radio sky simulations
Synthetic radio source sky

Recipe:
· Simulation of continuum

emission: S3 (Wilman'08) (extrapolated & evolved luminosity functions; source distribution) (populations: AGN types, normal & starburst galaxies)
· Intrinsic polarisation

modelling: Data: NVSS, ELIAS N1 etc. (empirically) Monte Carlo simulations of sources
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Radio sky simulations
Faraday screens

Recipe:
· Halo masses and distribution: N-body simulations, mass functions

and linear theor y
· Scaling relations: Match halo proper ties (B0 , ne0 ) to halo mass · Profiles: Electron gas density (hydro-static equilibrium), B -field

RM sky:

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Radio sky simulations
Faraday screens

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1e+07

amplitude (arbitrary units)

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spatial scale (arbitrary units)

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Bayesian Analysis
Theor y

Bayes' theorem:
posterior
likelihood prior

p(|D , H ) =

p(D |, H ) p(|H ) p (D |H )
evidence

Explore the posterior by Monte Carlo sampling (e.g. Markov Chain Monte Carlo) to obtain best model parameters and confidence inter vals.

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Polarisation Data Analysis
Parameter constraints: RM inference

MCMC sampling

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Model selection
Methods

Aim (Ockham's razor):
· Select the model which provides generally the best

description of the data
· Penalise models which are worse or even unsatisfactor y

descriptions

Model selection statistics:
· Akaike Information Criterion · Bayesian Information Criterion · Bayesian Evidence (Jeffreys Information Criterion):

E=

L() ()d

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Model selection
Methods

Aim (Ockham's razor):
· Select the model which provides generally the best

description of the data
· Penalise models which are worse or even unsatisfactor y

descriptions

Evidence ratios and model selection:
evidence ratio

p(D |H1 ) p(H1 |D ) = p(H2 |D ) p(D |H2 )
model ratio

p(H1 ) p(H2 )
prior ratio

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Model selection
Methods

Aim (Ockham's razor):
· Select the model which provides generally the best

description of the data
· Penalise models which are worse or even unsatisfactor y

descriptions

Jeffreys Information Criterion:
[ln(E )] < 1 1 < [ln(E )] 2.5 < [ln(E [ln(E )] > 5 Not decisive. < 2.5 Significant. )] < 5 Strong indication. Decisive.

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Bayesian Analysis
Evidence evaluation

Methods:
· Brute-force attempts (only @ low dimensionality, simple

likelihoods)
· Simulated annealing (during burn-in phase of MCMC sampler) · Nested sampling · ...

More about nested sampling:
· Efficient Monte Carlo evaluation of the evidence. · Evidence integral re-parametrisation:

dX = ()d X () =

L()>

()d
1

· Define X (prior mass) so that E = 0 LdX is uniquely specified · Evaluate Lj = L(Xj ) with 0 < Xn < · · · < X1 < 1

E

n j =1

Lj wj with wj = (Xj

-1

-X

j +1

)/2
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Bayesian Analysis
Nested sampling

Algorithm:
1 Initialise: j = 0, X0 = 1 and E = 0 2 Get N `live' points and their likelihoods (uniformly) inside the initial prior space 3 j =j +1 4 find lowest Li and remove it from `live' point list 5 Increment evidence as E = E + Li (Xi -1 - Xi +1 )/2 6 Reduce prior volume Xi /Xi p(t ) = Nt N -1
-1

= ti with

7 Replace removed point with new point from with L > Li 8 If (Lmax Xj < E ) then P (E = E + N 1 L(i )/N and i= stop) else (go to (3))

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Polarisation Data Analysis
Applications

Model Basic model Basic model

parameters & priors RMscr , 0 src , src , psrc (uniform, symmetric) RMscr , 0 src , src , psrc (uniform, `asymmetric', excluding) RMscr , 0 src , src (set), psrc (uniform, symmetric) RMscr , 0 src , src (set), psrc (uniform, symmetric, different ranges)

[ln(E )] 0 -10.44

Basic model (only 3 parameters) Basic model (only 3 parameters)

0.17

1.3

Data: simulated SKA mid band observation
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Polarisation Data Analysis
Model selection

Model MultiSlab UniSlab
0.1

parameters & priors 10 parameters half the number of parameters

[ln(E )] 0 -118

0.05

Polarised flux [unnormalised]

0

-0.05

-0.1

-0.15

-0.2 9e+08

9.5e+08

1e+09 1.05e+09 1.1e+09 1.15e+09 1.2e+09 1.25e+09 1.3e+09 1.35e+09 1.4e+09 Frequency [Hz]

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Polarisation Data Analysis
`LOFAR analysis'

Model MultiSlab (bright) UniSlab Model MultiSlab (medium) UniSlab Model MultiSlab (faint) UniSlab Model MultiSlab (ver y faint) UniSlab
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parameters & priors 10 parameters half the number of parameters parameters & priors 10 parameters half the number of parameters parameters & priors 10 parameters half the number of parameters parameters & priors 10 parameters half the number of parameters
Bayesian analysis of polarisation data

[ln(E )] 0 -46000 [ln(E )] 0 -460 [ln(E )] 0 -6.893 [ln(E )] 0 -0.38
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Conclusions

We have developed radio polarisation and rotation measure simulations of a high degree of realism · Bayesian analysis and model selection techniques provide efficient and powerful tools to analyse polarisation and RM data · Working in frequency space rather than in RM space can save computing time; the same is true for working in the u-v plane rather than in the image plane
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