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利用紧密类星体对测量星系际介质的小尺度结构

Measurement of the small-scale structure of the intergalactic medium using close quasar pairs

Alberto Rorai, Joseph F. Hennawi, Jose Oñorbe, Martin White, J. Xavier Prochaska, Girish Kulkarni, Michael Walther, Zarija Lukić, Khee-Gan Lee

摘要:

星系际介质(IGM)中扩散气体的分布在被称为莱曼- $α$森林的遥远背景类星体的光谱上留下了一系列氢吸收线。宇宙流体动力学模拟预测,IGM密度波动被抑制在一个特征尺度以下,其中热压力平衡重力。我们测量了这种压力平滑规模量化吸收相关性的样本密切类星体对。我们将我们的测量结果与流体动力学模拟进行了比较,其中压力平滑由IGM的综合热历史确定。我们的研究结果是一致的标准模型的光致电离加热的紫外线辐射背景,再电离宇宙。

英文摘要:

The distribution of diffuse gas in the intergalactic medium (IGM) imprints a series of hydrogen absorption lines on the spectra of distant background quasars known as the Lyman-$α$ forest. Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations predict that IGM density fluctuations are suppressed below a characteristic scale where thermal pressure balances gravity. We measured this pressure-smoothing scale by quantifying absorption correlations in a sample of close quasar pairs. We compared our measurements to hydrodynamical simulations, where pressure smoothing is determined by the integrated thermal history of the IGM. Our findings are consistent with standard models for photoionization heating by the ultraviolet radiation backgrounds that reionized the universe.

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