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银河系前HI引力透镜中的宇宙学信息

Cosmological Information in the Gravitational Lensing of Pregalactic HI

R. Benton Metcalf, S. D. M. White

摘要:

我们研究的约束,下一代射电望远镜可以放置在暗能量,暗物质和通货膨胀的性质,通过研究高红移21厘米发射的引力透镜,我们比较与可从广角调查星系透镜的约束。如果再电离时期有效地在z ~ 8或更晚,那么像SKA和LOFAR这样的望远镜将可以获得非常大量的宇宙学信息。我们使用简单的表征再电离的历史和建议的望远镜设计调查如何以及二维收敛功率谱,三维物质功率谱,线性增长函数的演变,和标准的宇宙学参数可以从无线电数据测量。在z ~ 2处的宽波数范围内可以精确地测量功率谱,并且可以从z ~ 0.5到z ~ 7探测宇宙能量密度的演化。这导致功率谱的形状的表征(即暗物质的性质和暴胀结构的产生),这可能比从星系透镜巡天获得的更精确。另一方面,暗能量参数在其传统的参数化(欧米茄_λ,w_o,w_a)是有点不太好约束可行的21厘米透镜调查比全天星系透镜调查,虽然21厘米的调查可能是更强大的约束模型与“早期”的暗能量比星系调查。总的来说,最好的约束来自于结合这两种类型的调查。这导致了对暗物质和暴胀的极其严格的约束,并改善了对暗能量的约束,根据标准品质因数判断,比单独的任何一次调查都要多一个数量级。

英文摘要:

We study the constraints which the next generation of radio telescopes could place on the nature of dark energy, dark matter and inflation by studying the gravitational lensing of high redshift 21 cm emission, and we compare with the constraints obtainable from wide-angle surveys of galaxy lensing. If the reionization epoch is effectively at z ~ 8 or later, very large amounts of cosmological information will be accessible to telescopes like SKA and LOFAR. We use simple characterizations of reionization history and of proposed telescope designs to investigate how well the two-dimensional convergence power spectrum, the three-dimensional matter power spectrum, the evolution of the linear growth function, and the standard cosmological parameters can be measured from radio data. The power spectra can be measured accurately over a wide range of wavenumbers at z ~ 2, and the evolution in the cosmic energy density can be probed from z ~ 0.5 to z ~ 7. This results in a characterization of the shape of the power spectra (i.e. of the nature of dark matter and of inflationary structure generation) which is potentially more precise than that obtained from galaxy lensing surveys. On the other hand, the dark energy parameters in their conventional parametrization (Omega_Lambda, w_o, w_a) are somewhat less well constrained by feasible 21 cm lensing surveys than by an all-sky galaxy lensing survey although a 21 cm surveys might be more powerful than galaxy surveys for constraining models with "early" dark energy. Overall, the best constraints come from combining surveys of the two types. This results in extremely tight constraints on dark matter and inflation, and improves constraints on dark energy, as judged by the standard figure of merit, by more than an order of magnitude over either survey alone.

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