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高红移宇宙中21厘米谱线紫外泵浦的辐射转移效应

Radiative Transfer Effect on Ultraviolet Pumping of the 21cm Line in the High Redshift Universe

Leonid Chuzhoy, Zheng Zheng

摘要:

在再电离时期,21 cm信号对紫外光子的散射率敏感,在Lyman_alpha共振上发生红移。在这里,我们计算的光子散射率分布为一个单一的紫外光源。在考虑了先前忽略的共振线的自然加宽后,我们发现光子在接近共振频率和经历大部分散射的地方与源的距离明显小于天真地预期的r=(dnu/nu_0)(c/H),其中dnu=nu-nu_0是初始频率偏移,并且差异随着初始频率偏移的减小而增大。因此,散射率P(r)随着距离的增加而下降的速度比之前假设的1/r^2分布快得多。在光源附近(r<1 Mpc共运动),红移到Ly_alpha共振的光子的散射率收敛于P(r)\propto r^{-7/3}。通过将红移到更高共振的光子(Ly_gamma、Ly_delta等)分裂产生的Ly_alpha光子的散射率受辐射转移的影响很小,而所有高共振产生的Ly_alpha光子的散射率之和在源附近也收敛于P(r)\propto r^{-7/3}。在15<z<35时,在~0.01- 20 Mpc/h(共动)尺度下,发现所有Lyman共振态的Ly_α光子的总散射率比没有完全辐射转移时的散射率高~1+0.3[(1+z)/20]^{2/3}倍。因此,在再电离的早期,21厘米信号相对于宇宙微波背景的亮度差也以类似的因子增大。

英文摘要:

During the epoch of reionization the 21cm signal is sensitive to the scattering rate of the ultraviolet photons, redshifting across the Lyman_alpha resonance. Here we calculate the photon scattering rate profile for a single ultraviolet source. After taking into account previously neglected natural broadening of the resonance line, we find that photons approach the resonance frequency and experience most scatterings at a significantly smaller distance from the source than naively expected r=(dnu/nu_0)(c/H), where dnu=nu-nu_0 is the initial frequency offset, and the discrepancy increases as the initial frequency offset decreases. As a consequence, the scattering rate P(r) drops much faster with increasing distance than the previously assumed 1/r^2 profile. Near the source (r<1Mpc comoving), the scattering rate of photons that redshift into the Ly_alpha resonance converges to P(r) \propto r^{-7/3}. The scattering rate of Ly_alpha photons produced by splitting of photons that redshift into a higher resonance (Ly_gamma, Ly_delta, etc.) is only weakly affected by the radiative transfer, while the sum of scattering rates of Ly_alpha photons produced from all higher resonances also converges to P(r) \propto r^{-7/3} near the source. At 15<z<35, on scales of ~0.01-20Mpc/h (comoving), the total scattering rate of Ly_alpha photons from all Lyman resonances is found to be higher by a factor of ~1+0.3[(1+z)/20]^{2/3} than obtained without full radiative transfer. Consequently, during the early stage of reionization, the differential brightness of 21cm signal against the cosmic microwave background is also boosted by a similar factor.

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