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快速大规模再电离模拟

Fast Large-Scale Reionization Simulations

Rajat M. Thomas, Saleem Zaroubi, Benedetta Ciardi, Andreas H. Pawlik, Panagiotis Labropoulos, Vibor Jelic, Gianni Bernardi, Michiel A. Brentjens, A. G. de Bruyn… 展开作者

Rajat M. Thomas, Saleem Zaroubi, Benedetta Ciardi, Andreas H. Pawlik, Panagiotis Labropoulos, Vibor Jelic, Gianni Bernardi, Michiel A. Brentjens, A. G. de Bruyn, Geraint J. A. Harker, Leon V. E. Koopmans, Garrelt Mellema, V. N. Pandey, Joop Schaye, Sarod Yatawatta

摘要:

我们提出了一种有效的方法来产生大规模的再电离时代(EoR)的模拟,而不需要一个完整的三维辐射转移代码。大型暗物质的模拟后处理产生的红移21厘米中性氢发射的地图。暗物质晕中嵌入了辐射源,其性质要么基于半解析处方,要么来自流体动力学模拟。这些源可以是恒星或具有不同光谱指数的幂律源。假设球对称,电离气泡周围创建这些源,其径向电离分数和温度分布来自1-D辐射转移实验的目录。在这些球体重叠的情况下,光子通过将它们重新分布在对应于球体的连接的电离区域周围而被保存。这些地图创建的效率,使我们能够跨越大的参数空间通常遇到的再电离模拟。我们将我们的结果与其他更精确的3-D辐射转移模拟进行比较,并发现与即将到来的21 cm实验的红移和空间尺度非常一致。我们生成一个连续的观测立方体,跨越红移6至12,并使用这些模拟研究恒星和类星体之间的再电离历史的差异。最后,将信号与LOFAR梁响应进行卷积,并对其影响进行分析和量化。对这一模拟数据集进行的统计揭示了LOFAR可能的观察策略。

英文摘要:

We present an efficient method to generate large simulations of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) without the need for a full 3-dimensional radiative transfer code. Large dark-matter-only simulations are post-processed to produce maps of the redshifted 21cm emission from neutral hydrogen. Dark matter haloes are embedded with sources of radiation whose properties are either based on semi-analytical prescriptions or derived from hydrodynamical simulations. These sources could either be stars or power-law sources with varying spectral indices. Assuming spherical symmetry, ionized bubbles are created around these sources, whose radial ionized fraction and temperature profiles are derived from a catalogue of 1-D radiative transfer experiments. In case of overlap of these spheres, photons are conserved by redistributing them around the connected ionized regions corresponding to the spheres. The efficiency with which these maps are created allows us to span the large parameter space typically encountered in reionization simulations. We compare our results with other, more accurate, 3-D radiative transfer simulations and find excellent agreement for the redshifts and the spatial scales of interest to upcoming 21cm experiments. We generate a contiguous observational cube spanning redshift 6 to 12 and use these simulations to study the differences in the reionization histories between stars and quasars. Finally, the signal is convolved with the LOFAR beam response and its effects are analyzed and quantified. Statistics performed on this mock data set shed light on possible observational strategies for LOFAR.

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