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Ly-alpha选择星系团的非引力贡献:宇宙学巡天的意义

Non-Gravitational Contributions to the Clustering of Ly-alpha Selected Galaxies: Implications for Cosmological Surveys

Stuart Wyithe, Mark Dijkstra

摘要:

结果表明,Ly-alpha吸收对环境的依赖性导致Ly-alpha选定星系的红移空间功率谱具有显著的非引力特征。我们推导出一个物理动机的拟合公式,可以包括在聚类分析,并使用它来讨论的预测功能的Ly-alpha星系的功率谱的基础上详细的模型,其中Ly-alpha吸收的影响,由气体流入和/或强大的星系外流。我们表明,功率谱测量可用于研究星系IGM连接的天体物理学,并测量恒星形成星系的流出物的性质。应用修改后的红移空间功率谱的Ly-alpha调查与计划中的Hobby-Eberly望远镜暗能量实验(HETDEX)的参数,我们发现,所观察到的Ly-alpha流量的速度梯度和电离背景的依赖性可能会损害Ly-alpha选择星系红移调查的能力,以约束宇宙学使用的信息从全功率谱。这是因为波动的电离背景和速度梯度的影响,影响观察到的功率谱的形状的方式是类似的原始功率谱和红移空间扭曲的形状分别。我们使用Alcock-Paczynski检验表明,在没有IGM中Ly-alpha吸收细节的先验知识的情况下,HETDEX的视线和横向距离测量的精度将为~1.3- 1.7%,相对于传统星系红移测量中最好的精度~0.8%,降低了~1.5-2倍。我们指定的精度与该模型的Ly-alpha辐射转移必须理解,以HETDEX实现距离测量优于1%。

英文摘要:

We show that the dependence of Ly-alpha absorption on environment leads to significant non-gravitational features in the redshift space power-spectrum of Ly-alpha selected galaxies. We derive a physically motivated fitting formula that can be included in clustering analyses, and use this to discuss the predicted features in the Ly-alpha galaxy power-spectrum based on detailed models in which Ly-alpha absorption is influenced by gas infall and/or by strong galactic outflows. We show that power-spectrum measurements could be used to study the astrophysics of the galaxy-IGM connection, and to measure the properties of outflows from star-forming galaxies. Applying the modified redshift space power-spectrum to a Ly-alpha survey with parameters corresponding to the planned Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), we find that the dependence of observed Ly-alpha flux on velocity gradient and ionising background may compromise the ability of Ly-alpha selected galaxy redshift surveys to constrain cosmology using information from the full power-spectrum. This is because the effects of fluctuating ionizing background and velocity gradients effect the shape of the observed power-spectrum in ways that are similar to the shape of the primordial power-spectrum and redshift space distortions respectively. We use the Alcock-Paczynski test to show that without prior knowledge of the details of Ly-alpha absorption in the IGM, the precision of line-of-sight and transverse distance measurements for HETDEX will be ~1.3-1.7%, decreased by a factor of ~1.5-2 relative to the best case precision of ~0.8% available in a traditional galaxy redshift survey. We specify the precision with which modelling of Ly-alpha radiative transfer must be understood in order for HETDEX to achieve distance measurements that are better than 1%.

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