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再电离后21厘米巡天的宇宙学约束

Cosmological constraints from 21cm surveys after reionization

Eli Visbal, Abraham Loeb, Stuart Wyithe

摘要:

在再电离时期之后,剩余中性氢的21 cm辐射可以用来追踪密度涨落的宇宙学功率谱。使用Fisher矩阵制定,我们提供了一个详细的预测宇宙学参数的约束,可实现与此探头。我们考虑两种设计:放大版本的MWA天文台以及快速傅立叶变换望远镜。我们发现,21厘米观测致力于后再电离红移可能会产生显着更好的约束比下一代宇宙微波背景(CMB)的实验。我们发现$Ω_Λ$,$Ω_{\rm m}h^2$,和$Ω_νh^2$的约束是最强的,每一个改进了至少一个数量级以上的普朗克CMB卫星单独的两种设计。我们的结果不强烈依赖于天体物理学的不确定性与氢的电离类似的21厘米调查期间的再电离。然而,我们发现,从电离背景的21厘米功率谱的调制可能会潜在地降低约束的原始功率谱的谱指数和它的运行超过一个数量级。我们的结果也强烈依赖于最大波数的功率谱,可以使用由于非线性。

英文摘要:

21cm emission from residual neutral hydrogen after the epoch of reionization can be used to trace the cosmological power spectrum of density fluctuations. Using a Fisher matrix formulation, we provide a detailed forecast of the constraints on cosmological parameters that are achievable with this probe. We consider two designs: a scaled-up version of the MWA observatory as well as a Fast Fourier Transform Telescope. We find that 21cm observations dedicated to post-reionization redshifts may yield significantly better constraints than next generation Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments. We find the constraints on $Ω_Λ$, $Ω_{\rm m}h^2$, and $Ω_νh^2$ to be the strongest, each improved by at least an order of magnitude over the Planck CMB satellite alone for both designs. Our results do not depend as strongly on uncertainties in the astrophysics associated with the ionization of hydrogen as similar 21cm surveys during the epoch of reionization. However, we find that modulation of the 21cm power spectrum from the ionizing background could potentially degrade constraints on the spectral index of the primordial power spectrum and its running by more than an order of magnitude. Our results also depend strongly on the maximum wavenumber of the power spectrum which can be used due to non-linearities.

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