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通过中性氢的射电干涉观测探测宇宙再电离

Probing Cosmological Reionization through Radio-interferometric Observations of Neutral Hydrogen

Kanan K. Datta

摘要:

再电离时代是宇宙演化史上最鲜为人知的篇章之一。本论文研究了利用HI 21-cm图揭示宇宙再电离历史的两种主要方法,其中讨论最多的方法是研究HI 21-cm再电离的全局统计性质。我们开发了计算多频角功率谱(MAPS)的形式,并将HI信号的统计量量化为角多极l和频率间隔Δ v的联合函数。我们采用了一个简单的模型HI分布,其中包括斑片状再电离,并使用它来研究电离气泡的MAPS签名。我们还研究了前景减法的含义。论文的一个主要部分探讨了在21厘米的地图中检测单个源周围电离气泡的可能性。我们提出了一种基于可见性的匹配滤波器技术,以最佳地结合来自电离气泡的信号,并最大限度地减少噪声和前景的贡献。形式主义作出明确的预测的能力,检测电离泡或最终排除其存在的无线电地图。给出了GMRT和MWA的结果。利用模拟的HI图,我们分析了泡外HI起伏对其探测能力的影响。各种其他问题,如(i)气泡大小的确定(ii)盲目搜索气泡,(iii)最佳红移气泡检测也进行了讨论。

英文摘要:

The epoch of reionization is one of the least known chapters in the evolutionary history of the Universe. This thesis investigates two major approaches to unveil the reionization history of the Universe using HI 21-cm maps.The most discussed approach has been to study the global statistical properties of the reionization HI 21-cm. We develop the formalism to calculate the Multi-frequency Angular Power Spectrum (MAPS) and quantify the statistics of the HI signal as a joint function of the angular multipole l and frequency separation Δν. We adopt a simple model for the HI distribution which incorporates patchy reionization and use it to study the signatures of ionized bubbles on MAPS. We also study the implications of the foreground subtraction. A major part of the thesis investigates the possibility of detecting ionized bubbles around individual sources in 21-cm maps. We present a visibility based matched filter technique to optimally combine the signal from an ionized bubble and minimize the noise and foreground contributions. The formalism makes definite predictions on the ability to detect an ionized bubble or conclusively rule out its presence within a radio map. Results are presented for the GMRT and the MWA. Using simulated HI maps we analyzed the impact of HI fluctuations outside the bubble on its detectability. Various other issues such as (i) bubble size determination (ii) blind search for bubbles, (iii) optimum redshift for bubble detection are also discussed.

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