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再电离的PAPER-64约束:z=8.4时的21 cm功率谱

PAPER-64 Constraints on Reionization: The 21cm Power Spectrum at z=8.4

Zaki S. Ali, Aaron R. Parsons, Haoxuan Zheng, Jonathan C. Pober, Adrian Liu, James E. Aguirre, Richard F. Bradley, Gianni Bernardi, Chris L. Carilli, Carina Che… 展开作者

Zaki S. Ali, Aaron R. Parsons, Haoxuan Zheng, Jonathan C. Pober, Adrian Liu, James E. Aguirre, Richard F. Bradley, Gianni Bernardi, Chris L. Carilli, Carina Cheng, David R. DeBoer, Matthew R. Dexter, Jasper Grobbelaar, Jasper Horrell, Daniel C. Jacobs, Pat Klima, David H. E. MacMahon, Matthys Maree, David F. Moore, Nima Razavi, Irina I. Stefan, William P. Walbrugh, Andre Walker

摘要:

在本文中,我们报告了新的限制,21厘米的宇宙再电离辐射的基础上,135天的观测活动与64个元素的部署唐纳德C。贝克精密阵列探测再电离时代(PAPER)在南非。这项工作扩展了Parsons等人(2014)的工作,具有更多的收集区域,更长的观察周期,改进的基于冗余的校准,最佳条纹率滤波,以及使用最佳二次估计器改进的功率谱分析。结果是在$z = 8.4$的范围$0.15 < k < 0.5h\ {\rm Mpc}^{-1}$内的$Δ^{2}(k)$的新的$2σ$上限为(22.4 mK)$^2$。这比以前的最佳上限提高了三倍。正如我们在即将发表的论文中更深入地讨论的那样(Pober et al. 2015,在准备中),这个上限支持并扩展了以前反对极冷再电离场景的证据。最后,我们讨论了未来21厘米再电离实验的影响,包括新资助的氢时代再电离阵列(HERA)。$\textbf{The limits presented in this paper have been retracted: The erratum can be found in Appendix A.}$

英文摘要:

In this paper, we report new limits on 21cm emission from cosmic reionization based on a 135-day observing campaign with a 64-element deployment of the Donald C. Backer Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER) in South Africa. This work extends the work presented in Parsons et al. (2014) with more collecting area, a longer observing period, improved redundancy-based calibration, optimal fringe-rate filtering, and improved power-spectral analysis using optimal quadratic estimators. The result is a new $2σ$ upper limit on $Δ^{2}(k)$ of (22.4 mK)$^2$ in the range $0.15 < k < 0.5h\ {\rm Mpc}^{-1}$ at $z = 8.4$. This represents a three-fold improvement over the previous best upper limit. As we discuss in more depth in a forthcoming paper (Pober et al. 2015, in prep), this upper limit supports and extends previous evidence against extremely cold reionization scenarios. We conclude with a discussion of implications for future 21cm reionization experiments, including the newly funded Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA). $\textbf{The limits presented in this paper have been retracted: The erratum can be found in Appendix A.}$

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