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前景楔形体和21 cm BAO测量

The foreground wedge and 21 cm BAO surveys

Hee-Jong Seo, Christopher M. Hirata

摘要:

来自未分辨低红移大尺度结构的红移H{ \sc \,i} 21 cm辐射是一个很有希望的观测地面重子声学振荡(BAO)的窗口。这种方法的一个主要挑战是将宇宙信号从银河系和银河系外起源的前景中分离出来,这些前景比前者强许多数量级。前景所期望的平滑频谱名义上只会污染非常小的$k_\parallel$模式;然而,望远镜天线方向图在该波长处对前景的色响应引入了非平滑结构,在我们感兴趣的物理尺度上普遍污染了宇宙信号。这种污染在傅立叶空间中限定了横向模式周围的楔形体积,这对于宇宙信号是不可接近的。在本文中,我们测试的影响,这种污染的楔形未来的21厘米BAO调查使用Fisher信息矩阵计算。我们包括由于BAO重建技术,已用于星系调查和测试的影响,这个楔形的BAO重建作为一个函数的信号噪声,并将结果在Fisher矩阵计算的信号改善。我们发现,在$z=1-2$预期的楔形效应是非常有害的角直径距离:角直径距离的误差增加了3-4.4倍,而H(z)的误差增加了1.5-1.6倍。我们的结论是,校准技术,清除前景“楔”将是非常有价值的约束角直径距离强度映射21厘米的调查。

英文摘要:

Redshifted H{\sc\,i} 21 cm emission from unresolved low-redshift large scale structure is a promising window for ground-based Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) observations. A major challenge for this method is separating the cosmic signal from the foregrounds of Galactic and extra-Galactic origins that are stronger by many orders of magnitude than the former. The smooth frequency spectrum expected for the foregrounds would nominally contaminate only very small $k_\parallel$ modes; however the chromatic response of the telescope antenna pattern at this wavelength to the foreground introduces non-smooth structure, pervasively contaminating the cosmic signal over the physical scales of our interest. Such contamination defines a wedged volume in Fourier space around the transverse modes that is inaccessible for the cosmic signal. In this paper, we test the effect of this contaminated wedge on the future 21 cm BAO surveys using Fisher information matrix calculation. We include the signal improvement due to the BAO reconstruction technique that has been used for galaxy surveys and test the effect of this wedge on the BAO reconstruction as a function of signal to noises and incorporate the results in the Fisher matrix calculation. We find that the wedge effect expected at $z=1-2$ is very detrimental to the angular diameter distances: the errors on angular diameter distances increased by 3-4.4 times, while the errors on H(z) increased by a factor of 1.5-1.6. We conclude that calibration techniques that clean out the foreground "wedge" would be extremely valuable for constraining angular diameter distances from intensity-mapping 21 cm surveys.

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