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来自莱曼α森林的红移z=1.7- 3.2的星系际介质热历史:用子波和通量分布测量的比较

The intergalactic medium thermal history at redshift z=1.7--3.2 from the Lyman alpha forest: a comparison of measurements using wavelets and the flux distribution

A. Garzilli, J. S. Bolton, T. -S. Kim, S. Leach, M. Viel

摘要:

本文通过对Lyman α森林透射通量的小尺度涨落的研究,探讨了星系际介质(IGM)在红移区间z=1.7- 3.2的热历史。我们应用小波滤波技术,以18个高分辨率的类星体光谱获得的紫外和视觉Echelle光谱仪(UVES),并比较这些数据的合成光谱从一套流体动力学模拟IGM的热状态和宇宙学参数是不同的。从小波分析,我们得到的IGM热状态的估计是在最近的其他独立的基于小波的测量结果吻合得很好。我们还使用莱曼α森林通量概率分布函数(PDF),它以前曾被用来测量IGM温度-密度关系的相同的数据集进行再分析。这为IGM热状态的测量提供了重要的一致性测试,因为它能够直接比较使用这两种不同方法获得的约束。我们发现从小波和通量PDF得到的约束是相互一致的,虽然与以前的研究一致,通量PDF约束有利于等温或倒置IGM温度-密度关系。我们还通过结合我们的小波和通量PDF测量来进行联合分析,将z=2.1处的IGM热状态约束为具有平均密度T0/[10^3 K]=17.3 +/- 1.9的温度和幂律温度-密度关系指数gamma=1.1 +/- 0.1(1 sigma)。我们的结果与先前的观测结果一致,这些观测结果表明在z<4的IGM中可能存在额外的加热源。

英文摘要:

We investigate the thermal history of the intergalactic medium (IGM) in the redshift interval z=1.7--3.2 by studying the small-scale fluctuations in the Lyman alpha forest transmitted flux. We apply a wavelet filtering technique to eighteen high resolution quasar spectra obtained with the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES), and compare these data to synthetic spectra drawn from a suite of hydrodynamical simulations in which the IGM thermal state and cosmological parameters are varied. From the wavelet analysis we obtain estimates of the IGM thermal state that are in good agreement with other recent, independent wavelet-based measurements. We also perform a reanalysis of the same data set using the Lyman alpha forest flux probability distribution function (PDF), which has previously been used to measure the IGM temperature-density relation. This provides an important consistency test for measurements of the IGM thermal state, as it enables a direct comparison of the constraints obtained using these two different methodologies. We find the constraints obtained from wavelets and the flux PDF are formally consistent with each other, although in agreement with previous studies, the flux PDF constraints favour an isothermal or inverted IGM temperature-density relation. We also perform a joint analysis by combining our wavelet and flux PDF measurements, constraining the IGM thermal state at z=2.1 to have a temperature at mean density of T0/[10^3 K]=17.3 +/- 1.9 and a power-law temperature-density relation exponent gamma=1.1 +/- 0.1 (1 sigma). Our results are consistent with previous observations that indicate there may be additional sources of heating in the IGM at z<4.

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