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HeII的再电离及其对IGM的影响

HeII Reionization and its Effect on the IGM

Matthew McQuinn, Adam Lidz, Matias Zaldarriaga, Lars Hernquist, Philip F. Hopkins, Suvendra Dutta, C. -A. Faucher-Giguere

摘要:

对星系际介质的观测表明,类星体在z ~ 3的星系际介质中反射He Ⅱ.我们已经运行了一组190和430共动Mpc的HeII类星体被再电离的模拟,以了解HeII再电离的性质及其对观测的潜在影响。我们发现HeII再电离加热IGM中的区域,比预期的温度高出25,000 K,体积平均温度增加~ 12,000 K,并且在~ 50 Mpc尺度上具有大的温度波动。大部分的加热发生在远离类星体的硬光子。在He Ⅱ再电离过程中,我们发现温度-密度状态方程为γ-1 ~0.3,但在σ ~ 10^4 K的范围内,这种关系具有很大的离散性。HeII被观测到的类星体群再电离不能产生一个倒关系(γ-1 < 0)。我们的模拟是一致的,在地狱Ly-alpha森林的平均传输所观察到的演变。我们认为,由于HeII再电离的热输入是无法导致所观察到的抑郁症z = 3.2在HI Ly-alpha森林不透明度已建议。我们调查的性质的类星体和HeII莱曼极限系统的不确定性如何影响我们的预测。

英文摘要:

Observations of the intergalactic medium (IGM) suggest that quasars reionize HeII in the IGM at z ~ 3. We have run a set of 190 and 430 comoving Mpc simulations of HeII being reionized by quasars to develop an understanding of the nature of HeII reionization and its potential impact on observables. We find that HeII reionization heats regions in the IGM by as much as 25,000 K above the temperature that is expected otherwise, with the volume-averaged temperature increasing by ~ 12,000 K and with large temperature fluctuations on ~ 50 Mpc scales. Much of the heating occurs far from QSOs by hard photons. We find a temperature-density equation of state of gamma -1 ~ 0.3 during HeII reionization, but with a wide dispersion in this relation having sigma ~ 10^4 K. HeII reionization by the observed population of quasars cannot produce an inverted relation (gamma - 1 < 0). Our simulations are consistent with the observed evolution in the mean transmission of the HeII Ly-alpha forest. We argue that the heat input due to HeII reionization is unable to cause the observed depression at z = 3.2 in the HI Ly-alpha forest opacity as has been suggested. We investigate how uncertainties in the properties of QSOs and of HeII Lyman-limit systems influence our predictions.

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