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QSO视线邻近效应的大尺度环境偏差

Large scale environmental bias of the QSO line of sight proximity effect

Adrian M. Partl, Volker Müller, Gustavo Yepes, Stefan Gottlöber

摘要:

本文分析了宇宙学环境中高红移类星体周围星系际物质的邻近区。在一个盒子的64小时-1百万秒差距的基础长度,我们采用暗物质只有模拟。为了估计氢的温度和密度分布,我们使用有效状态方程。氢被假定为在光电离平衡与模型背景通量,这是适合最近的平均光学深度和传输通量统计的观测。在红移z = 3,4和4.8时,我们选择模拟中确定的20个最大质量晕和100个较小质量晕中心的模型类星体位置。从每个假设的类星体位置,我们投下100个随机视线,两个盒子的长度,包括电离分数的变化,类星体通量场,并推导出模拟Lyα谱。邻近效应描述了平均归一化光学厚度τ_(max)= τeff,QSO/τeff,Lyα作为QSO和背景场电离率之比的函数,ω = ΓQSO/ΓUVB,也就是说分布图τ_(max)=(1 + ω/α)-0.5,其中引入了强度参数α。强度参数测量与理论背景模型的偏差,并用于量化环境密度场的任何影响。我们重现的邻近效应,这是不受主机晕质量的无偏测量。不同的视线和不同的类星体宿主位置之间的散射随着红移的减小而增加。在主晕周围,我们只发现在同向运动半径为1 < rc <10 h-1 Mpc的邻近区有轻微的平均超密度。然而,一个明确的幂律相关性的强度参数与平均过密RC被发现,高估的电离背景在过密区域和低估在欠密区域。

英文摘要:

We analyse the proximity zone of the intergalactic matter around high-redshift quasars in a cosmological environment. In a box of 64 h-1 Mpc base length we employ dark matter only simulations. For estimating the hydrogen temperature and density distribution we use the effective equation of state. Hydrogen is assumed to be in photoionisation equilibrium with a model background flux which is fit to recent observations of the mean optical depth and transmission flux statistics. At redshifts z = 3, 4, and 4.8, we select model quasar positions at the centre of the 20 most massive halos and 100 less massive halos identified in the simulation. From each assumed quasar position we cast 100 random lines of sight for two box length including the changes in the ionisation fractions by the QSO flux field and derive mock Lyα spectra. The proximity effect describes the dependence of the mean normalised optical depth ξ = τeff, QSO/τeff, Lyα as a function of the ratio of the ionisation rate by the QSO and the background field, ω = ΓQSO/ΓUVB, i.e. the profile ξ = (1 + ω/a)-0.5, where a strength parameter a is introduced. The strength parameter measures the deviation from the theoretical background model and is used to quantify any influence of the environmental density field. We reproduce an unbiased measurement of the proximity effect which is not affected by the host halo mass. The scatter between different lines of sight and different quasar host positions increases with decreasing redshift. Around the host halos, we find only a slight average overdensity in the proximity zone at comoving radii of 1 < rc < 10h-1 Mpc. However, a clear power-law correlation of the strength parameter with the average overdensity in rc is found, showing an overestimation of the ionising background in overdense regions and an underestimation in underdense regions.

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