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再电离时期辐射引起的大尺度结构:自相关函数

Radiation-induced large-scale structure during the reionization epoch: the autocorrelation function

Rupert A. C. Croft, Gabriel Altay

摘要:

在中性氢再电离时期,辐射作用所产生的结构,原则上不同于最初小扰动的引力增长所产生的结构。我们使用高分辨率的宇宙学辐射转移来探讨这两种机制之间的差异。我们的计算使用蒙特卡洛代码,直接通过SPH内核没有网格的光线跟踪,保持底层流体动力学模拟的高空间分辨率。由于第一辐射源的性质是不确定的,我们模拟了一系列具有不同源性质和复合物理的模型。我们研究了这些模型中中性氢分布和再电离历史的形态。我们发现,在固定的平均中性分数,结构是视觉上最受影响的存在下的源光度的下限,然后由星系的质量与光的比例,和最小的影响,在重组率和质量波动的幅度的变化。本文着重研究了中性氢的自相关函数xi_HI(r)作为辐射诱导结构(RIS)的基本定量度量。我们测试的所有模型都表现出一种特征行为,xi_HI(r)相对于物质关联函数最初变得线性反偏,当宇宙电离度为~10-20%时,达到最小偏置因子b~0.5。在此之后,xi_HI(r)的幅度迅速增加,超过物质关联函数。它保持幂律形状,但有相当大的斜率,达到gamma ~-0.5的渐近对数斜率。在红移Δ z ~ 2-3的短暂间隔内,HI涨落的增长率比引力增长率指数地快。

英文摘要:

The structures produced during the epoch of reionization by the action of radiation on neutral hydrogen are in principle different to those that arise through gravitational growth of initially small perturbations. We explore the difference between the two mechanisms using high resolution cosmological radiative transfer. Our computations use a Monte Carlo code which raytraces directly through SPH kernels without a grid, preserving the high spatial resolution of the underlying hydrodynamic simulation. Because the properties of the first sources of radiation are uncertain, we simulate a range of models with different source properties and recombination physics. We examine the morphology of the neutral hydrogren distribution and the reionization history in these models. We find that at fixed mean neutral fraction, structures are visually most affected by the existence of a lower limit in source luminosity, then by galaxy mass to light ratio, and are minimally affected by changes in the recombination rate and amplitude of mass fluctuations. We concentrate on the autocorrelation function of the neutral hydrogen, xi_HI(r) as a basic quantitive measure of Radiation Induced Structure (RIS.) All the models we test exhibit a characteristic behaviour, with xi_HI(r) becoming initially linearly antibiased with respect to the matter correlation function, reaching a minimum bias factor b~0.5 when the universe is ~10-20% ionized. After this xi_HI(r) increases rapidly in amplitude, overtaking the matter correlation function. It keeps a power law shape, but flattens considerably, reaching an asymptotic logarithmic slope of gamma ~-0.5. The growth rate of HI fluctuations is exponentially more rapid than gravitational growth over a brief interval of redshift Deltaz ~ 2-3.

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