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宇宙再电离产生的CMB极化和21厘米谱线起伏的互相关

The cross-correlation of the CMB polarisation and the 21-cm line fluctuations from cosmic reionisation

Hiroyuki Tashiro, Nabila Aghanim, Mathieu Langer, Marian Douspis, Saleem Zaroubi

摘要:

宇宙微波背景(CMB)极化和21厘米谱线起伏是宇宙学再电离的有力探测器。我们研究如何的CMB极化(E-模式)和21厘米线波动之间的互相关可以用来进一步了解的再电离历史,在非均匀再电离的框架内。由于E模式偏振反映了CMB温度波动的四极分量的振幅,因此互相关的角功率谱在所有多极子处都呈现振荡。功率谱的第一个峰出现在对应于红移的四极的尺度上,这是由21厘米线波动探测的。当宇宙的平均电离分数约为一半时,峰值达到红移的最大值。另一方面,在小尺度上,存在取决于再电离持续时间的阻尼。因此,CMB极化和21厘米线波动之间的互相关有可能精确地限制再电离的时间和持续时间。

英文摘要:

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation and the 21 cm line fluctuations are powerful probes of cosmological reionisation. We study how the cross-correlation between the CMB polarisation (E-modes) and the 21 cm line fluctuations can be used to gain further understanding of the reionisation history, within the framework of inhomogeneous reionisation. Since the E-mode polarisation reflects the amplitude of the quadrupole component of the CMB temperature fluctuations, the angular power spectrum of the cross-correlation exhibits oscillations at all multipoles. The first peak of the power spectrum appears at the scale corresponding to the quadrupole at the redshift that is probed by the 21 cm line fluctuations. The peak reaches its maximum value in redshift when the average ionisation fraction of the universe is about half. On the other hand, on small scales, there is a damping that depends on the duration of reionisation. Thus, the cross-correlation between the CMB polarisation and the 21 cm line fluctuations has the potential to constrain accurately the epoch and the duration of reionisation.

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