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射电天空中C和O精细结构线的宇宙再电离信号

Signals of the cosmological reionization in the radio sky through C and O fine structure lines

Motohiko Kusakabe, Masahiro Kawasaki

摘要:

我们研究了强紫外源周围的紫外光子对C I,C II和O I精细结构能级的激发,强紫外源也是宇宙再电离的电离源,红移为$\sim 10$ .通过求解非平衡化学速率方程,计算了点源周围电离区的演化。通过精细结构线的UV光子的信号被认为在更丰富的化学物质C I、C II和O I的位置处更强。这样的环境将被实现,其中存在可用于泵浦精细结构能级的非电离UV线光子的强通量,并且同时电离UV光子被密集的HI区域有效地屏蔽。信号从H I区域的中等大密度诱导的红移紫外光子在点源发射的被发现是占主导地位的大比其他人。我们讨论的信号的可探测性,并表明,从理想化的环境中的信号将有可能被检测到的下一代阵列的无线电观测后,阿塔卡马大型毫米/亚毫米阵列(ALMA)。

英文摘要:

We study the excitation of fine structure levels of C I, C II and O I by ultraviolet (UV) photons around strong UV sources which are also ionizing sources of the cosmological reionization at redshift of $\sim 10$. The evolutions of ionized regions around a point source are calculated by solving rate equations for non-equilibrium chemistry. Signals of UV photons through the fine structure lines are considered to be stronger at locations of more abundant chemical species of C I, C II and O I. Such environments would be realized where strong fluxes of non-ionizing UV line photons available for the pumping up of fine structure levels exist, and simultaneously ionizing UV photons are effectively shielded by dense H I regions. Signals from H I regions of moderately large densities induced by redshifted UV photons emitted at the point sources are found to be dominantly large over those of others. We discuss the detectability of the signals, and show that signals from idealized environments will be possibly detected by radio observations with next-generation arrays to come after the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

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