Analysis of spectral energy distribution of blazar enabled by convolutional neural network

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Speaker
Damien Begue, Bar-Ilan
Date
14/01/2026 - 13:30 - 12:00Add to Calendar 2026-01-14 12:00:00 2026-01-14 13:30:00 Analysis of spectral energy distribution of blazar enabled by convolutional neural network Modeling the multi-wavelength and multi-messenger emission from jets through time-dependent kinetic equations remains computationally prohibitive. I present a surrogate model designed to replace the expensive kinetic solver while preserving the underlying physical dependencies. The surrogate model takes the form of a convolutional neural network trained on radiative outputs of numerical simulations. It makes Bayesian parameter inference feasible for hundreds of spectral energy distributions (SEDs). I demonstrate its performance using data from observations of OJ 287 and 1ES 1959+650, showing how time-resolved SED fitting reveals the temporal evolution of key physical parameters and provides a systematic characterization of the emission processes driving their emission Physics Building (202) Seminar Room 303 המחלקה לפיזיקה physics.dept@mail.biu.ac.il Asia/Jerusalem public
Place
Physics Building (202) Seminar Room 303
Abstract

Modeling the multi-wavelength and multi-messenger emission from jets through time-dependent kinetic equations remains computationally prohibitive. I present a surrogate model designed to replace the expensive kinetic solver while preserving the underlying physical dependencies. The surrogate model takes the form of a convolutional neural network trained on radiative outputs of numerical simulations. It makes Bayesian parameter inference feasible for hundreds of spectral energy distributions (SEDs). I demonstrate its performance using data from observations of OJ 287 and 1ES 1959+650, showing how time-resolved SED fitting reveals the temporal evolution of key physical parameters and provides a systematic characterization of the emission processes driving their emission

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