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莱曼α森林中压力支持与热展宽的关系I:状态方程对纵向结构的影响

Pressure Support vs. Thermal Broadening in the Lyman-alpha Forest I: Effects of the Equation of State on Longitudinal Structure

Molly S. Peeples, David H. Weinberg, Romeel Davé, Mark A. Fardal, Neal Katz

摘要:

在低密度星系际介质(IGM)中,气体的温度和密度是紧密相关的。热加宽的速度尺度和穿过气体金斯尺度的哈勃流具有相似的量级(Hlambda_J ~ sigma_th)。为了分离的气体压力支持和热加宽的Lya森林的影响,我们比较光谱提取的两个平滑粒子流体动力学(SPH)模拟演化不同的光电离加热速率(从而不同的金斯尺度),施加不同的温度-密度关系的演变粒子分布。通量功率谱和通量自相关函数的转换尺度主要由热展宽决定,而不是由压力决定。然而,对压力的不敏感性部分来自于具有倾斜温度-密度关系的抵消效应(在我们的模拟中T ~ rho^{0.6}):在较冷、较低压力的模拟中的高密度峰值比在较热的模拟中的高密度峰值更少地被压力支持平滑,并且正是这种较高密度的气体经历最强的热加宽。热展宽和压力支持的变化对通量概率分布(PDF)有非常重要的影响,它直接响应于气体过密度分布,而不是平滑的尺度。低分辨率模拟的测试表明,我们的统计结果收敛,即使在这个较低的分辨率。虽然热加宽一般占主导地位的Lya森林的纵向结构,我们在纸II,压力支持决定了横向相干的森林观察到接近类星体对。[删节]

英文摘要:

In the low density intergalactic medium (IGM) that gives rise to the Lyman-alpha forest, gas temperature and density are tightly correlated. The velocity scale of thermal broadening and the Hubble flow across the gas Jeans scale are of similar magnitude (Hlambda_J ~ sigma_th). To separate the effects of gas pressure support and thermal broadening on the Lya forest, we compare spectra extracted from two smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations evolved with different photoionization heating rates (and thus different Jeans scales), imposing different temperature-density relations on the evolved particle distributions. The turnover scales in the flux power spectrum and flux autocorrelation function are determined mainly by thermal broadening rather than pressure. However, the insensitivity to pressure arises partly from a cancellation effect with a sloped temperature-density relation (T ~ rho^{0.6} in our simulations): the high density peaks in the colder, lower pressure simulation are less smoothed by pressure support than in the hotter simulation, and it is this higher density gas that experiences the strongest thermal broadening. Changes in thermal broadening and pressure support have comparably important effects on the flux probability distribution (PDF), which responds directly to the gas overdensity distribution rather than the scale on which it is smooth. Tests on a lower resolution simulation show that our statistical results are converged even at this lower resolution. While thermal broadening generally dominates the longitudinal structure in the Lya forest, we show in Paper II that pressure support determines the transverse coherence of the forest observed towards close quasar pairs. [ABRIDGED]

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