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作为CMB前景的一氧化碳谱线发射:具有不同光谱分辨率的恒星形成宇宙的层析成像

Carbon monoxide line emission as a CMB foreground: tomography of the star-forming universe with different spectral resolutions

Mattia Righi, Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo, Rashid Sunyaev

摘要:

一氧化碳的旋转线和精细结构线的CII和最丰富的金属,在宇宙中的增强恒星形成的时期发出的,在频率通道中,现在和未来的CMB实验是敏感的红移。我们估计的贡献CMB角功率谱的排放在这样的线合并恒星形成星系。我们使用莱西-科尔方法来表征合并晕的分布,以及每个晕中恒星形成率的参数化。使用观测数据的本地,低红移,高红移对象的样本,我们校准了在每条线的光度作为恒星形成率的函数。我们表明,CO线发射所产生的相关项是一个重要的来源的前景CMB在一个广泛的频率范围内(特别是在20-60 GHz频段)和1000<l<8000,对应的角标度小于10弧分。此外,我们还证明了用不同的光谱分辨率进行观测,可以使信号的振幅在C_1中增加两个数量级,并且有助于将谱线贡献与实际上所有其它前景源和初级涨落本身分开,因为这些谱线贡献对光谱分辨率没有显著的依赖性。我们建议进行观测与不同的光谱带宽作为一种新的工具来构建一个层析成像的宇宙,通过探测不同的红移切片不同的厚度。(节略)

英文摘要:

The rotational lines of carbon monoxide and the fine structure lines of CII and of the most abundant metals, emitted during the epoch of enhanced star formation in the universe, are redshifted in the frequency channels where the present-day and future CMB experiments are sensitive. We estimate the contribution to the CMB angular power spectrum by the emission in such lines in merging star-forming galaxies. We used the Lacey-Cole approach to characterize the distribution of the merging halos, together with a parametrization for the star formation rate in each of them. Using observational data from a sample of local, low-redshift, and high-redshift objects, we calibrated the luminosity in each line as a function of the star formation rate. We show that the correlation term arising from CO line emission is a significant source of foreground for CMB in a broad range of frequencies (in particular in the 20-60 GHz band) and for 1000<l<8000, corresponding to angular scales smaller than 10 arcminutes. Moreover, we demonstrate that observing with different spectral resolutions will give the possibility of increasing the amplitude of the signal up to two orders of magnitude in C_l and will help separate the line contribution from practically all other foreground sources and from the primary fluctuations themselves, since these show no significant dependence on the spectral resolution. We propose to perform observations with varying spectral bandwidths as a new tool to construct a tomography of the universe, by probing different redshift slices with varying thickness. (abridged)

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