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高红移笔束巡天中的星系统计

Galaxy Statistics in Pencil-beam Surveys at High Redshifts

Joseph A. Muñoz, Hy Trac, Abraham Loeb

摘要:

在高红移下对暗星系的观测,通常会产生一种“平行光束”的几何形状,它在视线上的长度比在天空中的长度要长得多。我们探讨这种几何形状的影响的丰度和集群的莱曼破裂星系(LBG)和莱曼α发射体(LAEs)在当前和未来的调查的基础上宇宙学N体模拟充分描述的非线性增长的结构在小尺度上,并比较线性理论。我们发现,LBG丰度的概率分布偏向于低值,因为窄的横向尺寸的调查更有可能探测欠密集的地区。在星系光度跨越1- 2个数量级的范围内,物体数量的方差与常用的分析预测不同,并且不受泊松噪声的支配。此外,小尺度上的非线性偏置导致使用詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜视野的LAEs的一维功率谱相对平坦,与线性微扰理论的预期明显不同。我们讨论了这些结果可能会影响尝试测量的紫外背景在高红移,估计晕质量和星系光度之间的关系,并通过测量电离区域的功率调制效应探测再电离。

英文摘要:

Surveys of faint galaxies at high redshifts often result in a "pencil-beam" geometry that is much longer along the line-of-sight than across the sky. We explore the effects of this geometry on the abundance and clustering of Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) and Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) in current and future surveys based on cosmological N-body simulations which adequately describe the nonlinear growth of structure on small scales and compare to linear theory. We find that the probability distribution of the LBG abundance is skewed toward low values since the narrow transverse dimension of the survey is more likely to probe underdense regions. Over a range that spans 1--2 orders of magnitude in galaxy luminosities, the variance in the number of objects differs from the commonly used analytic prediction and is not dominated by Poisson noise. Additionally, nonlinear bias on small scales results in a one-dimensional power spectrum of LAEs using a James Webb Space Telescope field-of-view that is relatively flat, markedly different from the expectation of linear perturbation theory. We discuss how these results may affect attempts to measure the UV background at high redshifts, estimate the relationship between halo mass and galaxy luminosity, and probe reionization by measuring the power-modulating effect of ionized regions.

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