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宇宙再电离对星系团的影响

The Imprint of Cosmic Reionization on Galaxy Clustering

Stuart Wyithe, Avi Loeb

摘要:

本文研究了再电离对中等红移(z~0.3-5.5)星系样品成团性质的影响。目前的星系际氢再电离模型预测,过密的区域将被提前再电离,从而延迟了大质量低红移星系的祖先中恒星质量的积累。因此,在中等红移星系中观察到的恒星星族要年轻一些,因此在宇宙的过密区域中更亮。因此,星系巡天对过密区域中暗物质质量稍低的星系很敏感。观测到的星系数密度的相应增加可以被参数化为由于再电离引起的星系偏差。我们模拟这一过程合并树结合恒星合成代码。我们的模型表明,再电离有一个显着的影响,根据其恒星形成的属性选择星系样本的聚类特性。对于质量为10^12太阳质量的晕,莱曼破裂星系(包括那些在z<1的重子振荡巡天中的星系)的偏差校正在10-20%的水平,导致从测量的集群长度推断的晕质量的校正因子为1.5-2。氦的再电离也可能导致z~3处星系关联函数振幅的急剧增加。我们发现,再电离偏置是近似独立的规模和晕质量。然而,由于传统的星系偏置是质量依赖的,再电离偏置变得相对更重要的低质量系统。在z<1的亮红星系巡天中,由于再电离引起的偏差修正非常小。

英文摘要:

We consider the effect of reionization on the clustering properties of galaxy samples at intermediate redshifts (z~0.3-5.5). Current models for the reionization of intergalactic hydrogen predict that overdense regions will be reionized early, thus delaying the build up of stellar mass in the progenitors of massive lower-redshift galaxies. As a result, the stellar populations observed in intermediate redshift galaxies are somewhat younger and hence brighter in overdense regions of the Universe. Galaxy surveys would therefore be sensitive to galaxies with a somewhat lower dark matter mass in overdense regions. The corresponding increase in the observed number density of galaxies can be parameterized as a galaxy bias due to reionization. We model this process using merger trees combined with a stellar synthesis code. Our model demonstrates that reionization has a significant effect on the clustering properties of galaxy samples that are selected based on their star-formation properties. The bias correction in Lyman-break galaxies (including those in proposed baryonic oscillation surveys at z<1) is at the level of 10-20% for a halo mass of 10^12 solar masses, leading to corrections factors of 1.5-2 in the halo mass inferred from measurements of clustering length. The reionization of helium could also lead to a sharp increase in the amplitude of the galaxy correlation function at z~3. We find that the reionization bias is approximately independent of scale and halo mass. However since the traditional galaxy bias is mass dependent, the reionization bias becomes relatively more important for lower mass systems. The correction to the bias due to reionization is very small in surveys of luminous red galaxies at z<1.

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