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BAO标度星系际中性氢的标度相关偏置

Scale-dependent bias in the BAO-scale intergalactic neutral hydrogen

Andrew Pontzen

摘要:

我讨论的z~2.3星系际介质的中性氢(HI)密度的波动,并表明它们与宇宙的超密度的关系是强烈的尺度依赖。这种行为源于众所周知的“邻近效应”的线性化版本,其中明亮的光源抑制原子氢密度。使用一种新的,系统的和详细的线性理论辐射转移计算,我演示了HI密度,因此反相关的总物质密度时,平均尺度超过莱曼极限平均自由path. The辐射转移指纹是非常独特的,应该是可测量的莱曼α森林。影响扩展到足够小的尺度,产生显着的失真的关联函数的形状周围的重子声学振荡峰,虽然峰值位置移动只有1.2%的平均源偏置b_j=3。畸变随b_j和其他天体物理参数的变化而显著变化,测量它将在不久的将来为电离光子源的性质提供一个有用的观测约束。

英文摘要:

I discuss fluctuations in the neutral hydrogen (HI) density of the z~2.3 intergalactic medium and show that their relation to cosmic overdensity is strongly scale-dependent. This behaviour arises from a linearized version of the well-known "proximity effect", in which bright sources suppress atomic hydrogen density. Using a novel, systematic and detailed linear-theory radiative transfer calculation, I demonstrate how HI density consequently anti-correlates with total matter density when averaged on scales exceeding the Lyman-limit mean-free-path. The radiative transfer thumbprint is highly distinctive and should be measurable in the Lyman-alpha forest. Effects extend to sufficiently small scales to generate significant distortion of the correlation function shape around the baryon acoustic oscillation peak, although the peak location shifts only by 1.2 percent for a mean source bias of b_j=3. The distortion changes significantly with b_j and other astrophysical parameters; measuring it should provide a helpful observational constraint on the nature of ionizing photon sources in the near future.

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