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大质量中微子Lyman-Alpha森林的流体动力学模拟

Suite of Hydrodynamical Simulations for the Lyman-Alpha Forest with Massive Neutrinos

Graziano Rossi, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Arnaud Borde, Matteo Viel, Christophe Yeche, James S. Bolton, James Rich, Jean-Marc Le Goff

摘要:

在类星体光谱中留下的中性氢的存在的签名允许一个约束中微子质量的总和与改进的灵敏度,相对于实验室实验,并可能揭示中微子质量等级和中微子的绝对质量尺度的新的光。宇宙学参数和暗能量状态方程上的约束也可以从联合参数估计过程中导出。然而,这需要对Lyman-Alpha(LyA)森林中透射通量的视线功率谱进行详细建模,其尺度从几个到数百个Mpcs,这反过来又要求包含和仔细处理宇宙学中微子。为此,我们在这里提出了一套国家的最先进的流体动力学模拟冷暗物质,重子和大质量中微子,专门针对建模的低密度区域的IGM探测的LyA森林在高红移。模拟的体积范围从(25 Mpc/h)^3到(100 Mpc/h)^3,使用的粒子数为3 × 192^3~ 2100万或3 × 768^3~ 14亿。各种运行的分辨率可以进一步提高,这样我们就可以达到相当于在一个(100 Mpc/h)^3盒子大小中的3 × 3072^3~ 870亿个粒子。所选择的宇宙学参数与最新的普朗克(2013)结果兼容,尽管我们也探索了主要宇宙学和天体物理参数轻微变化的影响。我们采用粒子型实现的大质量中微子,并考虑三个简并物种的质量Mnu =0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4和0.8 eV,分别。我们在几个方面改进了以前的研究,特别是IGM辐射冷却和加热过程的更新例程,以及基于2LPT而不是Zeldovich近似的初始条件。

英文摘要:

The signature left in quasar spectra by the presence of neutral hydrogen in the Universe allows one to constrain the sum of the neutrino masses with improved sensitivity, with respect to laboratory experiments, and may shed a new light on the neutrino mass hierarchy and on the absolute mass scale of neutrinos. Constraints on cosmological parameters and on the dark energy equation of state can also be derived, from a joint parameter estimation procedure. However, this requires a detailed modeling of the line-of-sight power spectrum of the transmitted flux in the Lyman-Alpha (LyA) forest on scales ranging from a few to hundreds of Mpcs, which in turns demands the inclusion and careful treatment of cosmological neutrinos. To this end, we present here a suite of state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations with cold dark matter, baryons and massive neutrinos, specifically targeted for modeling the low-density regions of the IGM as probed by the LyA forest at high-redshift. The simulations span volumes ranging from (25 Mpc/h)^3 to (100 Mpc/h)^3, and are made using either 3 X 192^3~21 millions or 3 X 768^3~1.4 billion particles. The resolution of the various runs can be further enhanced, so that we can reach the equivalent of 3 X 3072^3~87 billion particles in a (100 Mpc/h)^3 box size. The chosen cosmological parameters are compatible with the latest Planck (2013) results, although we also explore the effect of slight variations in the main cosmological and astrophysical parameters. We adopt a particle-type implementation of massive neutrinos, and consider three degenerate species having masses M_nu =0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 and 0.8 eV, respectively. We improve on previous studies in several ways, in particular with updated routines for IGM radiative cooling and heating processes, and initial conditions based on 2LPT rather than the Zeldovich approximation.

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