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21厘米森林与SKA

21cm Forest with the SKA

Benedetta Ciardi, Susumu Inoue, Katherine J. Mack, Yidong Xu, Gianni Bernardi

摘要:

层析成像技术和功率谱方法的另一种选择是寻找21 cm森林,即21 cm吸收特征对高Z射电大声源所造成的介入冷中性星系际介质(IGM)和崩溃的结构。尽管高z射电大声源的存在尚未得到证实,但SKA-low将是寻找此类源的首选仪器,因为预计它们的光谱比低z对应源更陡。由于最强的吸收特征来自小尺度结构(几十个物理kpc,甚至更低),21 cm森林可以探测小尺度上的HI密度功率谱,而不适合通过任何其他手段进行测量。此外,它可以是加热过程和早期宇宙热历史的独特探测器,因为信号强烈依赖于IGM温度。在这里,我们展示了SKA 1-low在红移范围z = 7.5-15的21厘米森林探测方面的作用。

英文摘要:

An alternative to both the tomography technique and the power spectrum approach is to search for the 21cm forest, that is the 21cm absorption features against high-z radio loud sources caused by the intervening cold neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) and collapsed structures. Although the existence of high-z radio loud sources has not been confirmed yet, SKA-low would be the instrument of choice to find such sources as they are expected to have spectra steeper than their lower-z counterparts. Since the strongest absorption features arise from small scale structures (few tens of physical kpc, or even lower), the 21cm forest can probe the HI density power spectrum on small scales not amenable to measurements by any other means. Also, it can be a unique probe of the heating process and the thermal history of the early universe, as the signal is strongly dependent on the IGM temperature. Here we show what SKA1-low could do in terms of detecting the 21cm forest in the redshift range z = 7.5-15.

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