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来自宇宙黎明的全球21厘米信号的贝叶斯约束

Bayesian constraints on the global 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn

G. Bernardi, J. T. L. Zwart, D. Price, L. J. Greenhill, A. Mesinger, J. Dowell, T. Eftekhari, S. W. Ellingson, J. Kocz, F. Schinzel

摘要:

第一个发光源的诞生和随后的再电离时期最好通过红移的21厘米发射线来研究,前两个的签名印在最后一个。在这项工作中,我们提出了一个完全贝叶斯方法,\textsc{hibayes},用于提取微弱的,全球(天空平均)21厘米的信号,从更明亮的前景发射。我们表明,一个简化的(但似乎合理),来自宇宙黎明时期的21厘米发射的高斯模型即使在存在结构化前景频谱的情况下,也可以提取由幅度$A_{\rm HI}$、频率峰值$ν_{\rm HI}$和宽度$σ_{\rm HI}$参数化的前向频谱($15 \lesssim z \lesssim 30$(参数化为$7^{\rm th}$阶多项式),提供了足够的信噪比(用单个偶极子进行400小时的观察)。我们将我们的方法应用于早期,19分钟长的观测从大口径实验检测黑暗时代,约束21厘米的信号幅度和宽度分别为$-890 < A_{\rm HI} < 0$ mK和$σ_{\rm HI} > 6.5$ MHz(对应于$Δz > 1.9$在红移$z \simeq 20$)在95%的置信水平范围内$13.2 < z < 27.4$($100 > ν> 50$ MHz)。

英文摘要:

The birth of the first luminous sources and the ensuing epoch of reionization are best studied via the redshifted 21-cm emission line, the signature of the first two imprinting the last. In this work we present a fully-Bayesian method, \textsc{hibayes}, for extracting the faint, global (sky-averaged) 21-cm signal from the much brighter foreground emission. We show that a simplified (but plausible), Gaussian model of the 21-cm emission from the Cosmic Dawn epoch ($15 \lesssim z \lesssim 30$), parameterized by an amplitude $A_{\rm HI}$, a frequency peak $ν_{\rm HI}$ and a width $σ_{\rm HI}$, can be extracted even in the presence of a structured foreground frequency spectrum (parameterized as a $7^{\rm th}$-order polynomial), provided sufficient signal-to-noise (400~hours of observation with a single dipole). We apply our method to an early, 19-minute long observation from the Large aperture Experiment to detect the Dark Ages, constraining the 21-cm signal amplitude and width to be $-890 < A_{\rm HI} < 0$ mK and $σ_{\rm HI} > 6.5$ MHz (corresponding to $Δz > 1.9$ at redshift $z \simeq 20$) respectively at the 95-per-cent confidence level in the range $13.2 < z < 27.4$ ($100 > ν> 50$ MHz).

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