Human vs. machine -- 1:3. Joint analysis of classical and ML-based summary statistics of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest

S. Chang, P. Nayak, M. Walther +1

In order to compress and more easily interpret Lyman-$\alpha$ forest (Ly$\alpha$F) datasets, summary statistics, e.g. the power spectrum, are commonly used. However, such summaries unavoidab…