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纤维的晚期再电离

The Late Reionization of Filaments

K. Finlator, F. Ozel, R. Dave, B. D. Oppenheimer

摘要:

我们使用精确的三维辐射转移计算后处理宇宙流体动力学模拟输出的再电离拓扑结构。在我们的模拟中,再电离开始于过密区域,然后直接“泄漏”到空隙中,灯丝最后再电离,这是由于它们的高复合率和低发射率的组合。这一结果取决于我们对恒星形成和反馈的处方所预测的有偏差的发射率场,这些处方先前已被证明可以解释再电离后宇宙的广泛测量。它对我们选择的模拟体积,电离逃逸分数和空间分辨率具有定性的鲁棒性(事实上,它在更高的空间分辨率下变得更强),即使精确的重叠红移对这些都很敏感。然而,它稍微减弱逃逸分数的增加,由于在较高的红移密度对比度降低。我们还探讨了我们的结果是否对常用的近似敏感,例如使用光学薄爱丁顿张量或大幅改变光速。这样的近似并不定性地改变再电离的拓扑结构。然而,他们可以系统地移动重叠红移高达$Δz\sim 0.5$,表明精确的辐射转移是计算再电离必不可少的。我们的模型不能同时再现所观察到的光学厚度汤姆逊散射和电离率每个氢原子在$z=6$,这可能是由于数值效应和/或失踪的早期电离源。

英文摘要:

We study the topology of reionization using accurate three-dimensional radiative transfer calculations post-processed on outputs from cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. In our simulations, reionization begins in overdense regions and then "leaks" directly into voids, with filaments reionizing last owing to their combination of high recombination rate and low emissivity. This result depends on the uniquely-biased emissivity field predicted by our prescriptions for star formation and feedback, which have previously been shown to account for a wide array of measurements of the post-reionization Universe. It is qualitatively robust to our choice of simulation volume, ionizing escape fraction, and spatial resolution (in fact it grows stronger at higher spatial resolution) even though the exact overlap redshift is sensitive to each of these. However, it weakens slightly as the escape fraction is increased owing to the reduced density contrast at higher redshift. We also explore whether our results are sensitive to commonly-employed approximations such as using optically-thin Eddington tensors or substantially altering the speed of light. Such approximations do not qualitatively change the topology of reionization. However, they can systematically shift the overlap redshift by up to $Δz\sim 0.5$, indicating that accurate radiative transfer is essential for computing reionization. Our model cannot simultaneously reproduce the observed optical depth to Thomson scattering and ionization rate per hydrogen atom at $z=6$, which could owe to numerical effects and/or missing early sources of ionization.

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