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arXiv 1208.4277astro-ph.COgr-qchep-phhep-th
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Omniscopes的背景再电离历史

Background reionization history from omniscopes

Sebastien Clesse, Laura Lopez-Honorez, Christophe Ringeval, Hiroyuki Tashiro, Michel H. G. Tytgat

摘要:

在再电离时期(EoR)的中性氢的21厘米亮度温度波动的测量应该开创下一代宇宙学观测。在这方面,许多工作都集中在从占主导地位的再电离前景的宇宙学信号的消歧。然而,即使在完美的前景删除,我们对背景再电离历史的无知可以显着影响宇宙学参数的估计。特别是,氢电离分数,重子密度和观测红移的光学深度之间的相互依赖性诱导的宇宙学参数之间的非平凡的简并,尚未被考虑到目前为止。使用一个简单的,但一致的再电离模型,我们重新审视他们的预期约束的未来的巨大的21厘米的全视仪首次使用马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗(MCMC)方法对多红移全天空模拟数据。我们的结果符合通常的Fisher矩阵分析的三维平坦天空的功率谱,但只有当上述退化保持在控制之下。在相反的情况下,Fisher的结果可能不准确。我们表明,这些条件可以通过结合宇宙微波背景测量与多个观测红移探测EoR的开始。这使得一个精确的重建的总光学深度,再电离持续时间和最大自旋温度。最后,我们讨论了这些结果在未解决的电离源的存在下的鲁棒性。虽然大多数的标准宇宙学参数仍然受到微弱的影响,我们发现一个显着的退化的背景再电离参数估计在滋扰电离源的存在。

英文摘要:

The measurements of the 21-cm brightness temperature fluctuations from the neutral hydrogen at the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) should inaugurate the next generation of cosmological observables. In this respect, many works have concentrated on the disambiguation of the cosmological signals from the dominant reionization foregrounds. However, even after perfect foregrounds removal, our ignorance on the background reionization history can significantly affect the cosmological parameter estimation. In particular, the interdependence between the hydrogen ionized fraction, the baryon density and the optical depth to the redshift of observation induce nontrivial degeneracies between the cosmological parameters that have not been considered so far. Using a simple, but consistent reionization model, we revisit their expected constraints for a futuristic giant 21-cm omniscope by using for the first time Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods on multiredshift full sky simulated data. Our results agree well with the usual Fisher matrix analysis on the three-dimensional flat sky power spectrum but only when the above-mentioned degeneracies are kept under control. In the opposite situation, Fisher results can be inaccurate. We show that these conditions can be fulfilled by combining cosmic microwave background measurements with multiple observation redshifts probing the beginning of EoR. This allows a precise reconstruction of the total optical depth, reionization duration and maximal spin temperature. Finally, we discuss the robustness of these results in presence of unresolved ionizing sources. Although most of the standard cosmological parameters remain weakly affected, we find a significant degradation of the background reionization parameter estimation in presence of nuisance ionizing sources.

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