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用SKA检测长丝中的中性IGM

Detecting the neutral IGM in filaments with the SKA

Robin Kooistra, Marta B. Silva, Saleem Zaroubi, Marc A. W. Verheijen, Elmo Tempel, Kelley M. Hess

摘要:

星系际介质在星系的形成和演化过程中起着重要的作用。即将到来的射电望远镜的最新发展开始开辟了第一次直接探测21厘米中性氢(HI)信号的可能性,该信号来自IGM的温暖气体。利用宇宙流体动力学EAGLE模拟方法对典型的IGM暗条信号进行了估计。假设所有灯丝的平均信号相同,预测这种信号在即将到来的平方公里阵列(SKA 1-mid)的中频阵列或未来升级到SKA 2的情况下的可探测性。信噪比(S/N)则仅取决于每个灯丝的尺寸和方向。从现有的星系调查推断的灯丝刺作为典型的真实灯丝的代理,我们发现数百个灯丝在该地区的天空访问的SKA,可以检测到。一旦SKA望远镜的各个阶段开始运作,他们自己的调查将能够找到所需的星系,以推断调查区域内更多灯丝的位置。我们发现,在120小时内,SKA 1-mid/SKA 2将检测HI发射从最强的灯丝在现场的S/N的顺序为10到$\sim$ 150这里考虑的最悲观的模型。SKA 1-mid的积分时间为几分钟,SKA 2的积分时间为几秒钟,可以检测到一些较亮的灯丝。因此,SKA 2将不仅能够检测,而且能够映射这些细丝中的大部分IGM。

英文摘要:

The intergalactic medium (IGM) plays an important role in the formation and evolution of galaxies. Recent developments in upcoming radio telescopes are starting to open up the possibility of making a first direct detection of the 21 cm signal of neutral hydrogen (HI) from the warm gas of the IGM in large-scale filaments. The cosmological hydrodynamical EAGLE simulation is used to estimate the typical IGM filament signal. Assuming the same average signal for all filaments, a prediction is made for the detectability of such a signal with the upcoming mid-frequency array of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA1-mid) or the future upgrade to SKA2. The signal-to-noise (S/N) then only depends on the size and orientation of each filament. With filament spines inferred from existing galaxy surveys as a proxy for typical real filaments, we find hundreds of filaments in the region of the sky accessible to the SKA that can be detected. Once the various phases of the SKA telescope become operational, their own surveys will be able to find the galaxies required to infer the position of even more filaments within the survey area. We find that in 120 h, SKA1-mid/SKA2 will detect HI emission from the strongest filaments in the field with a S/N of the order of 10 to $\sim$150 for the most pessimistic model considered here. Some of the brighter filaments can be detected with an integration time of a few minutes with SKA1-mid and a few seconds with SKA2. Therefore, SKA2 will be capable of not only detecting but also mapping a large part of the IGM in these filaments.

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