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arXiv 2004.04808astro-ph.CO
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暗物质模型对EoR 21厘米信号双谱的影响

Impact of dark matter models on the EoR 21-cm signal bispectrum

Anchal Saxena, Suman Majumdar, Mohd Kamran, Matteo Viel

摘要:

暗物质的性质决定了第一个坍缩晕形成的时间轴,从而影响了再电离的来源。在这里,我们考虑两种不同的暗物质模型:冷暗物质(CDM)和热暖暗物质(WDM),并研究它们如何影响再电离时代(EoR)及其21厘米观测。使用一套模拟,我们发现,在WDM的情况下,在小尺度上的结构形成得到抑制,导致在一个较小的数量的低质量的暗物质晕相比,CDM的情况。假设源产生电离光子的效率保持不变,这会导致在任何给定的宇宙时间产生的总电离光子数量减少,从而延迟再电离过程。我们还发现视觉差异的中性氢(HI)的拓扑结构和21厘米的地图相比,CDM的WDM的情况下。然而,在21厘米功率谱的差异,在相同的中性分数,被发现是小的。因此,我们专注于EoR 21-cm信号中的非高斯性,通过其双谱进行量化。我们发现,21厘米双谱(驱动的HI拓扑结构)是显着不同的WDM模型相比,CDM,即使是相同的质量平均中性馏分。这表明21厘米双谱是区分不同暗物质模型的一种独特而有前途的方法,并可用于在未来的EoR观测中约束暗物质的性质。

英文摘要:

The nature of dark matter sets the timeline for the formation of first collapsed halos and thus affects the sources of reionization. Here, we consider two different models of dark matter: cold dark matter (CDM) and thermal warm dark matter (WDM), and study how they impact the epoch of reionization (EoR) and its 21-cm observables. Using a suite of simulations, we find that in the WDM scenarios, the structure formation on small scales gets suppressed resulting in a smaller number of low mass dark matter halos compared to the CDM scenario. Assuming that the efficiency of sources in producing ionizing photons remain the same, this leads to a lower number of total ionizing photons produced at any given cosmic time and thus in a delay in the reionization process. We also find visual differences in the neutral hydrogen (HI) topology and in 21-cm maps in case of the WDM compared to the CDM. However, differences in the 21-cm power spectra, at the same neutral fraction, are found to be small. Thus, we focus on the non-Gaussianity in the EoR 21-cm signal, quantified through its bispectrum. We find that the 21-cm bispectra (driven by the HI topology) are significantly different in WDM models when compared with CDM, even for same mass averaged neutral fractions. This establishes that the 21-cm bispectrum is a unique and promising way to differentiate between different dark matter models, and can be used to constrain the nature of the dark matter in the future EoR observations.

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