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再电离时期全球红移21厘米亮温的经验约束

Toward Empirical Constraints on the Global Redshifted 21 cm Brightness Temperature During the Epoch of Reionization

Judd D. Bowman, Alan E. E. Rogers, Jacqueline N. Hewitt

摘要:

初步结果是从一个简单的,单天线的实验,旨在测量100和200兆赫之间的全天空无线电频谱。该系统使用内部比较切换方案,以减少测量光谱中的非平滑仪器污染物至75 mK。从观测结果,我们放置一个初始的上限为450 mK的相对亮度温度的红移21厘米的贡献光谱由于中性氢在星系际介质(IGM)在再电离的时代,假设一个快速过渡到一个完全电离的IGM在红移为8。通过改进,这种技术应该能够区分慢再电离和快再电离的情况。为了将再电离的持续时间限制在dz > 2,测量光谱中的系统残差必须减少到3 mK。

英文摘要:

Preliminary results are presented from a simple, single-antenna experiment designed to measure the all-sky radio spectrum between 100 and 200 MHz. The system used an internal comparison-switching scheme to reduce non-smooth instrumental contaminants in the measured spectrum to 75 mK. From the observations, we place an initial upper limit of 450 mK on the relative brightness temperature of the redshifted 21 cm contribution to the spectrum due to neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the epoch of reionization, assuming a rapid transition to a fully ionized IGM at a redshift of 8. With refinement, this technique should be able to distinguish between slow and fast reionization scenarios. To constrain the duration of reionization to dz > 2, the systematic residuals in the measured spectrum must be reduced to 3 mK.

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