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非均匀氦再电离与星系际介质物态方程

Inhomogeneous Helium Reionization and the Equation of State of the Intergalactic Medium

Steven Furlanetto, S. Peng Oh

摘要:

星系际介质(IGM)的温度是由光加热和绝热冷却之间的竞争决定的,通常假设它们定义了一个严格的状态方程,其中温度随密度单调增加。我们使用一个半解析模型,在低到中等IGM密度(<5倍的平均值)准确,表明非均匀再电离可以大大修改这些预期。由于再电离是由偏置源驱动的,IGM的密集口袋很可能首先被电离。结果,空隙最初保持冷却,而致密区域被充分加热。然而,在再电离接近尾声时,致密区域已经从最初的高温冷却下来,而空洞才刚刚被加热。因此,在氦再电离接近尾声时,状态方程可以反转,最热的气体在空隙中。这种情况发生的程度取决于再电离过程中密度偏差的大小:如果罕见的亮源主导再电离,那么每个电离区域都包含IGM的典型体积,状态方程将保持单调。我们还表明,在一个固定的密度的温度分布有显着的分散和迅速演变的整个,甚至在再电离。最后,我们表明,在z ~3.2处观察到的温度跳跃与氦再电离结束时的行为是一致的,尽管它需要比预期更大的温度增加。

英文摘要:

The temperature of the intergalactic medium (IGM) is set by the competition between photoheating and adiabatic cooling, which are usually assumed to define a tight equation of state in which the temperature increases monotonically with density. We use a semi-analytic model, accurate at low to moderate IGM densities (<5 times the mean), to show that inhomogeneous reionization can substantially modify these expectations. Because reionization is driven by biased sources, dense pockets of the IGM are likely to be ionized first. As a result, voids initially remain cool while dense regions are heated substantially. However, near the end of reionization, dense regions have already cooled from their initially large temperature while voids have only just been heated. Thus, near the end of helium reionization the equation of state can invert itself, with the hottest gas inside voids. The degree to which this happens depends on the magnitude of the density bias during reionization: if rare, bright sources dominate reionization, so that each ionized region contains a typical volume of the IGM, the equation of state will remain monotonic. We also show that the distribution of temperatures at a fixed density has significant scatter and evolves rapidly throughout and even after reionization. Finally, we show that the observed temperature jump at z ~3.2 is consistent with the behavior at the end of helium reionization, although it requires a somewhat larger temperature increase than expected.

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