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强度测绘中的掩蔽线前景

Masking line foregrounds in intensity mapping surveys

Patrick C. Breysse, Ely D. Kovetz, Marc Kamionkowski

摘要:

我们解决的问题,线混淆的强度映射调查和探索的可能性,以减轻线前景污染逐步掩盖在观察到的地图中最亮的像素。我们考虑针对CO(1-0)在$z=3$、Ly $α$在$z=7$和CII在$z=7$的实验,并使用模拟强度图,其包括信号的聚类和散粒噪声分量以及可能的前景,以测试我们的方法的效率。我们发现,对于CO和Ly $α$,通过仅1%-3%的像素掩蔽从地图中去除大部分前景贡献是完全可能的。然而,由于仪器的限制和所涉及的高强度前景污染,CII地图将更难以清理。虽然掩蔽过程牺牲了我们的地图中存在的大部分天体物理信息,但我们证明了可以成功地检索目标线中有用的宇宙学信息。

英文摘要:

We address the problem of line confusion in intensity mapping surveys and explore the possibility to mitigate line foreground contamination by progressively masking the brightest pixels in the observed map. We consider experiments targeting CO(1-0) at $z=3$, Ly$α$ at $z=7$, and CII at $z=7$, and use simulated intensity maps, which include both clustering and shot noise components of the signal and possible foregrounds, in order to test the efficiency of our method. We find that for CO and Ly$α$ it is quite possible to remove most of the foreground contribution from the maps via only 1%-3% pixel masking. The CII maps will be more difficult to clean, however, due to instrumental constraints and the high-intensity foreground contamination involved. While the masking procedure sacrifices much of the astrophysical information present in our maps, we demonstrate that useful cosmological information in the targeted lines can be successfully retrieved.

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