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宇宙学解释

Cosmological Recombination

Wan Yan Wong

摘要:

本论文主要研究宇宙学复合的物理过程以及复合过程中的细节对宇宙微波背景(CMB)各向异性的影响。本文详细计算了氢(H)复合过程中的莱曼α跃迁和最低双光子跃迁以及氦(He)的相应谱线对CMB谱的谱线畸变。这些畸变的峰值主要来自莱曼-α跃迁,并且发生在约170微米处,这是CMB的维恩部分。从CMB天空中提取宇宙学参数的主要理论限制在于我们可以计算宇宙学复合过程的精度。在此基础上,我们对H和He的复合过程进行了多能级计算,计算中加入了中性氦(He I)的自旋禁戒跃迁,以及H的高阶双光子跃迁和He I单重态之间的双光子跃迁。我们发现,自旋禁戒跃迁的结果在电离分数的变化超过一个百分点,而其他过渡给小得多的影响。最后,我们对RECFAST进行了改进,通过引入一个参数来重现最近的数值结果,以加速氦的复合。连同现有的氢“捏造因素”,我们改变这两个参数占宇宙学重组剩余的主导地位的不确定性。通过使用马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗方法与普朗克预测数据,我们发现,我们需要确定的参数,以优于10%的He I和1%的H,为了获得对宇宙学参数的影响可以忽略不计。

英文摘要:

In this thesis we focus on studying the physics of cosmological recombination and how the details of recombination affect the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies. We present a detailed calculation of the spectral line distortions on the CMB spectrum arising from the Lyman-alpha and the lowest two-photon transitions in the recombination of hydrogen (H), and the corresponding lines from helium (He). The peak of these distortions mainly comes from the Lyman-alpha transition and occurs at about 170 microns, which is the Wien part of the CMB. The major theoretical limitation for extracting cosmological parameters from the CMB sky lies in the precision with which we can calculate the cosmological recombination process. With this motivation, we perform a multi-level calculation of the recombination of H and He with the addition of the spin-forbidden transition for neutral helium (He I), plus the higher order two-photon transitions for H and among singlet states of He I. We find that the inclusion of the spin-forbidden transition results in more than a percent change in the ionization fraction, while the other transitions give much smaller effects. Last we modify RECFAST by introducing one more parameter to reproduce recent numerical results for the speed-up of helium recombination. Together with the existing hydrogen `fudge factor', we vary these two parameters to account for the remaining dominant uncertainties in cosmological recombination. By using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method with Planck forecast data, we find that we need to determine the parameters to better than 10% for He I and 1% for H, in order to obtain negligible effects on the cosmological parameters.

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