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高柱密度系统对莱曼α森林关联函数测量的影响

The Effect of High Column Density Systems on the Measurement of the Lyman αForest Correlation Function

Andreu Font-Ribera, Jordi Miralda-Escudé

摘要:

本文研究了高柱密度(HCD)系统对大尺度Lyman α森林关联函数的影响。我们研究的效果都在数值上,通过插入HCD系统的模拟光谱的一个特定的模型,并分析,在两点相关性和线性理论的背景下。我们发现HCD的存在对关联函数测量的噪声有很大的贡献,并系统地改变了莱曼α森林的红移空间关联函数,增加了密度偏差因子的值,降低了莱曼α森林的红移畸变参数$β_α$.我们提供了简单的公式,这些推导出的参数的校正,作为平均有效光学深度和偏置因子的主机晕的HCDs的函数,并讨论了这些表达式应该是有效的条件下。实际上,由于HCD系统阻尼翼的非线性效应和三点项的存在,对HCD效应的莱曼α森林相关的测量参数的精确修正比我们提出的简单解析近似更复杂。然而,我们的结论是,这些HCD效应的准确校正可以得到数值和校准的HCD-Lyman α互相关的观察。我们还讨论了一个类似的形式主义,以处理和校正的金属线重叠的莱曼α森林光谱的污染影响。

英文摘要:

We present a study of the effect of High Column Density (HCD) systems on the Lyman αforest correlation function on large scales. We study the effect both numerically, by inserting HCD systems on mock spectra for a specific model, and analytically, in the context of two-point correlations and linear theory. We show that the presence of HCDs substantially contributes to the noise of the correlation function measurement, and systematically alters the measured redshift-space correlation function of the Lyman αforest, increasing the value of the density bias factor and decreasing the redshift distortion parameter $β_α$ of the Lyman αforest. We provide simple formulae for corrections on these derived parameters, as a function of the mean effective optical depth and bias factor of the host halos of the HCDs, and discuss the conditions under which these expressions should be valid. In practice, precise corrections to the measured parameters of the Lyman αforest correlation for the HCD effects are more complex than the simple analytical approximations we present, owing to non-linear effects of the damped wings of the HCD systems and the presence of three-point terms. However, we conclude that an accurate correction for these HCD effects can be obtained numerically and calibrated with observations of the HCD-Lyman αcross-correlation. We also discuss an analogous formalism to treat and correct for the contaminating effect of metal lines overlapping the Lyman αforest spectra.

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