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高红移星系际空洞的重要性

On the importance of high redshift intergalactic voids

Matteo Viel, Joerg M. Colberg, Tae-Sun Kim

摘要:

我们调查的一维通量“空洞”(连通区域的平均通量水平以上的通量分布)的性质,通过比较流体动力学模拟的大宇宙体积与一组观察到的高分辨率光谱z ~ 2。在解决了盒子大小和分辨率的影响后,我们研究了当最重要的宇宙学和天体物理学参数变化时,空洞分布的变化。我们发现,在通量的空隙分布是非常符合标准的LCDM宇宙学的预测,这也符合其他流量统计非常好。然后,我们模拟磁通空洞和相应的一维气体密度场之间的关系沿视线,并作出初步的尝试,连接气体密度场的一维性质的三维暗物质分布在相同的红移。这提供了一个框架,允许使用观测到的类星体光谱在高红移的空隙人口的统计解释,并最终将使连接的空隙性质的高红移宇宙与那些在较低的红移,这是更好地了解。

英文摘要:

We investigate the properties of one--dimensional flux ``voids'' (connected regions in the flux distribution above the mean flux level) by comparing hydrodynamical simulations of large cosmological volumes with a set of observed high--resolution spectra at z ~ 2. After addressing the effects of box size and resolution, we study how the void distribution changes when the most significant cosmological and astrophysical parameters are varied. We find that the void distribution in the flux is in excellent agreement with predictions of the standard LCDM cosmology, which also fits other flux statistics remarkably well. We then model the relation between flux voids and the corresponding one--dimensional gas density field along the line--of--sight and make a preliminary attempt to connect the one--dimensional properties of the gas density field to the three--dimensional dark matter distribution at the same redshift. This provides a framework that allows statistical interpretations of the void population at high redshift using observed quasar spectra, and eventually it will enable linking the void properties of the high--redshift universe with those at lower redshifts, which are better known.

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