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氦再电离与热邻近效应

Helium reionization and the thermal proximity effect

Avery Meiksin, Eric R. Tittley, Calum K. Brown

摘要:

本文研究了类星体(QSO)等硬辐射源周围星系际介质对氦再电离的响应。我们使用辐射转移(RT)耦合到粒子网格(PM)N体代码模型的再电离。中性氢和氦最初被星暴光谱电离,然后逐渐演化为幂律光谱(fnu ~ nu^(-0.5))。多次模拟进行了不同的时间的发病和优势的硬光谱,发病红移范围从z = 3.5至5.5。源被放置在一个高密度区域,以模拟预期的当地环境的类星体。模拟与源放置在一个低密度的环境中,也作为控制的情况下,探索周围的IGM的属性的环境的作用。我们发现,在这两种情况下,IGM的HeIII区域内产生的温度超过IGM的温度之前,充分氦再电离,导致在“热邻近效应”,但在HeIII区域的温度增加系统与距离的来源。随着时间的推移,温度随着沿相邻视线的碰撞参量的函数的减小的扩散而松弛,尽管该趋势继续持续直到z = 2。这样的趋势可以使用高分辨率、高信噪比光谱,使用介入金属吸收系统的宽度来检测。

英文摘要:

We examine the temperature structure of the intergalactic medium IGM) surounding a hard radiation source, such as a Quasi-Stellar Object (QSO), as it responds to the onset of helium reionization by the source. We model the reionization using a radiative transfer (RT) code coupled to a particle-mesh (PM) N-body code. Neutral hydrogen and helium are initially ionized by a starburst spectrum, which is allowed to gradually evolve into a power law spectrum (fnu ~ nu^(-0.5)). Multiple simulations were performed with different times for the onset and dominance of the hard spectrum, with onset redshifts ranging from z = 3.5 to 5.5. The source is placed in a high-density region to mimic the expected local environment of a QSO. Simulations with the source placed in a low-density environment were also performed as control cases to explore the role of the environment on the properties of the surrounding IGM. We find in both cases that the IGM temperature within the HeIII region produced exceeds the IGM temperature before full helium reionization, resulting in a "thermal proximity effect", but that the temperature in the HeIII region increases systematically with distance from the source. With time the temperature relaxes with a reduced spread as a function of impact parameter along neighbouring lines of sight, although the trend continues to persist until z = 2. Such a trend could be detected using the widths of intervening metal absorption systems using high resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio spectra.

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