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星系际介质的微结构I:来自动力学微晕的21厘米信号

The micro-structure of the intergalactic medium I: the 21cm signature from dynamical minihaloes

Avery Meiksin

摘要:

在动力学坍缩的宇宙球晕模型下,对亮背景射电源和宇宙微波背景(CMB)下微晕产生的21 cm特征提供了统一的描述.计算得到的21厘米森林的等效宽度分布的LCDM宇宙学,以及相对于CMB的亮度温度差。包括环境Ly-alpha辐射场和IGM加热对签名的影响。结果表明,加热的动力学效应基本上抑制吸收功能在21厘米的森林与观察到的等效宽度超过0.15 kHz。它演示了如何测量超出探测器噪声的多余波动可以对明亮的背景射电源的较弱的吸收功能的统计检测。它还表明,一个Ly-alpha辐射场只有百分之几的热化率是足以使微晕信号对CMB可以忽略不计相比,从扩散IGM组件的信号。发现21厘米信号对原始密度涨落谱中的小尺度能量非常敏感。通过辐射的原子和分子的过程和恒星形成的气体冷却的影响,设置的最大质量的minihaloes引起的21厘米的信号包括在内,与津贴的抑制分子氢形成的环境紫外线辐射场。

英文摘要:

A unified description is provided for the 21cm signatures arising from minihaloes against a bright background radio source and against the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), within the context of a dynamical collapsing cosmological spherical halo model. The equivalent width distribution of the resulting 21cm forest is computed for LCDM cosmologies, along with the brightness temperature differential relative to the CMB. The effects of an ambient Ly-alpha radiation field and heating of the IGM on the signatures are included. It is shown that the dynamical effects of heating substantially suppress absorption features in the 21cm forest with observed equivalent widths exceeding 0.15 kHz. It is demonstrated how measurements of excess fluctuations beyond detector noise could make a statistical detection of the weaker absorption features against a bright background radio source. It is also shown that a Ly-alpha radiation field only a few percent the thermalisation rate is sufficient to render the minihalo signal against the CMB negligible compared with the signal from the diffuse IGM component. The 21cm signals are found to be very sensitive to the amount of small scale power in the primordial density fluctuation spectrum. The effects of gas cooling via radiative atomic and molecular processes and of star formation on setting the maximum mass of the minihaloes giving rise to a 21cm signal are included, with allowance made for the suppression of molecular hydrogen formation by an ambient UV radiation field.

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