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用Ly-alpha发射体研究再电离

Studying Reionization with Ly-alpha Emitters

Matthew McQuinn, Lars Hernquist, Matias Zaldarriaga, Suvendra Dutta

摘要:

我们发现,高红移Ly-alpha发射体(LAEs)的观测有可能在不久的将来为再电离提供明确的证据。使用200 Mpc的辐射转移模拟,我们计算的效果,补丁再电离线轮廓上,光度函数,最有趣的是,在几个现实的模型再电离的发射器的集群。再电离增加了测量到的发射体聚集,并且我们表明这种增强基本上不可能归因于再电离以外的任何因素。我们的研究结果激励在现有的LAE数据中寻找再电离的签名。我们发现,在恒星再电离的情况下,斯巴鲁深场z = 6.6光度计样品中58个LAE的角关联函数与完全电离宇宙(平均体积电离分数xi = 1)的一致性要比与x_i为2 σ置信水平的宇宙的一致性好< 0.5 at >。明年对斯巴鲁的测量将把z = 6.6的LAE样本增加五倍,并收紧这些限制。如果在LAE巡天中探测到再电离的聚集特征,那么与莱曼破裂或同一场的H-α巡天进行比较,就可以证实再电离假说。我们讨论了最佳LAE调查规格检测再电离,参考即将到来的节目。

英文摘要:

We show that observations of high-redshift Ly-alpha emitters (LAEs) have the potential to provide definitive evidence for reionization in the near future. Using 200 Mpc radiative transfer simulations, we calculate the effect that patchy reionization has on the line profile, on the luminosity function, and, most interestingly, on the clustering of emitters for several realistic models of reionization. Reionization increases the measured clustering of emitters, and we show that this enhancement would be essentially impossible to attribute to anything other than reionization. Our results motivate looking for the signature of reionization in existing LAE data. We find that for stellar reionization scenarios the angular correlation function of the 58 LAEs in the Subaru Deep Field z = 6.6 photometric sample is more consistent with a fully ionized universe (mean volume ionized fraction x_i = 1) than a universe with x_i < 0.5 at >2-sigma confidence level. Measurements in the next year on Subaru will increase their z = 6.6 LAE sample by a factor of five and tighten these limits. If the clustering signature of reionization is detected in a LAE survey, a comparison with a Lyman-break or a H-alpha survey in the same field would confirm the reionization hypothesis. We discuss the optimal LAE survey specifications for detecting reionization, with reference to upcoming programs.

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