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银河系前HI引力透镜对宇宙物质分布的成像

Imaging the Cosmic Matter Distribution using Gravitational Lensing of Pregalactic HI

Stefan Hilbert, R. Benton Metcalf, S. D. M. White

摘要:

在宇宙再电离时期和之前,中性氢的21厘米发射在所有较低的红移下都受到物质的引力透镜。这种发射的低频射电观测可以用来重建前景物质的投影质量分布,无论是亮的还是暗的。我们比较潜在的成像能力,这样的21厘米透镜与未来的星系透镜调查。我们使用千年模拟模拟大面积地图的透镜收敛的噪声,分辨率和红移加权实现各种理想化的观测方案。我们发现,21厘米透镜地图的信噪比可以远远超过任何地图使用星系透镜。如果一个足够大的射电望远镜能达到不可约噪声极限,那么投影的会聚图就能提供真实物质分布的高保真图像,从而可以直接观察到单个星系的暗物质晕,并提供大量关于质量和光的相对分布的统计和形态信息。对于像平方公里阵列(SKA)计划的仪器设计,高保真质量成像可能接近望远镜核心阵列的分辨率极限。

英文摘要:

21-cm emission from neutral hydrogen during and before the epoch of cosmic reionisation is gravitationally lensed by material at all lower redshifts. Low-frequency radio observations of this emission can be used to reconstruct the projected mass distribution of foreground material, both light and dark. We compare the potential imaging capabilities of such 21-cm lensing with those of future galaxy lensing surveys. We use the Millennium Simulation to simulate large-area maps of the lensing convergence with the noise, resolution and redshift-weighting achievable with a variety of idealised observation programmes. We find that the signal-to-noise of 21-cm lens maps can far exceed that of any map made using galaxy lensing. If the irreducible noise limit can be reached with a sufficiently large radio telescope, the projected convergence map provides a high-fidelity image of the true matter distribution, allowing the dark matter halos of individual galaxies to be viewed directly, and giving a wealth of statistical and morphological information about the relative distributions of mass and light. For instrumental designs like that planned for the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), high-fidelity mass imaging may be possible near the resolution limit of the core array of the telescope.

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