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宇宙学复合:氦光子的反馈及其对复合谱的影响

Cosmological recombination: feedback of helium photons and its effect on the recombination spectrum

J. Chluba, R. A. Sunyaev

摘要:

在本文中,我们考虑的再处理的高频光子发射的HeII和HeI的宇宙重组时期的HeI和HI。我们证明,与忽略所有反馈过程的计算相比,与早期宇宙中氦的存在有关的宇宙学复合光子的数量可以增加约40%-70%。我们的计算意味着每个氦核可以产生3-6个额外的光子。因此,在宇宙复合过程中总共会发射出约12-14个与氦相关的光子。这是对宇宙复合谱的重要补充,将来可能会使使用CMB能谱的差分测量来确定氦的原始丰度变得稍微容易一些。此外,由于这些光子是高红移反馈过程的唯一见证者,原则上观察它们提供了一种检查我们对复合物理学理解的方法。在这里最有趣的是,反馈的HeII光子的HeI导致出现几个额外的,而狭窄的光谱特征在低频的HeI复合光谱。因此,在宇宙微波背景辐射光谱中,由于宇宙学复合而导致的氦相关特征在某些特定频率上的特征可以超过~17%的平均水平好几倍。我们发现,特别是nu ~ 10 GHz,~ 35 GHz,~ 80 GHz和~ 200 GHz附近的频带似乎受到强烈的影响。此外,我们还计算了宇宙学电离历史的变化,发现只有原初HeI光子对HeII-->HeI复合动力学的反馈有影响,在z~2300处产生DN_e/N_e ~+ 0.17%的变化。这个结果似乎比这个过程的早期计算中得到的结果小2-3倍(删节)。

英文摘要:

In this paper we consider the re-processing of high frequency photons emitted by HeII and HeI during the epoch of cosmological recombination by HeI and HI. We demonstrate that, in comparison to computations which neglect all feedback processes, the number of cosmological recombination photons that are related to the presence of helium in the early Universe could be increased by ~40%-70%. Our computations imply that per helium nucleus ~3-6 additional photons could be produced. Therefore, a total of ~12-14 helium-related photons are emitted during cosmological recombination. This is an important addition to cosmological recombination spectrum which in the future may render it slightly easier to determine the primordial abundance of helium using differential measurements of the CMB energy spectrum. Also, since these photons are the only witnesses of the feedback process at high redshift, observing them in principle offers a way to check our understanding of the recombination physics. Here most interestingly, the feedback of HeII photons on HeI leads to the appearance of several additional, rather narrow spectral features in the HeI recombination spectrum at low frequencies. Consequently, the signatures of helium-related features in the CMB spectral distortion due to cosmological recombination at some given frequency can exceed the average level of ~17% several times. We find that in particular the bands around nu ~10GHz, ~35GHz, ~80GHz, and ~200GHz seem to be affected strongly. In addition, we computed the changes in the cosmological ionization history, finding that only the feedback of primary HeI photons on the dynamics of HeII-->HeI recombination has an effect, producing a change of DN_e/N_e ~+ 0.17% at z~2300. This result seems to be ~2-3 times smaller than the one obtained in earlier computations for this process (abridged).

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