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arXiv 2006.04826astro-ph.CO
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前景存在时宇宙复合辐射的灵敏度预报

Sensitivity forecasts for the cosmological recombination radiation in the presence of foregrounds

Luke Hart, Aditya Rotti, Jens Chluba

摘要:

宇宙复合辐射(CRR)是宇宙微波背景(CMB)不可避免的$Λ$ CDM谱畸变之一。虽然它显示了跨dm-mm波长的丰富光谱结构,但它也是目标最小的信号之一。在这里,我们进行了详细的预测,预期的灵敏度水平,不仅需要检测,而且还提取宇宙学信息的CRR中存在的前景。我们使用${\tt CosmoSpec}$来计算CRR,包括所有重要的辐射转移效应和对复合动力学的修改。我们确认,整体CRR信号的检测是可能的光谱仪的概念,如${\it SuperPIXIE}$。然而,为了真正利用宇宙学信息,需要$\simeq 50$倍更灵敏的光谱仪。虽然非常未来,这可以提供对原始氦丰度$Y_p$的独立约束,并探测BBN和复合过程中额外相对论自由度的存在。当考虑将CMB光谱仪与现有CMB数据相结合时,显著改善对其他宇宙学参数的约束需要更高的灵敏度($\simeq 5$的另一个因素)。在很大程度上,这是由于天体物理前景,有趣的是,它并没有降低对$Y_p$和$N_{\rm eff}$的约束。因此,未来的CMB光谱仪可以开辟一种探测非标准BBN场景,暗辐射和无菌中微子的新方法。此外,使用CRR结合现有的和即将到来的CMB各向异性数据,可以间接探测暴胀物理学。

英文摘要:

The cosmological recombination radiation (CRR) is one of the inevitable $Λ$CDM spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). While it shows a rich spectral structure across dm-mm wavelengths, it is also one of the smallest signals to target. Here we carry out a detailed forecast for the expected sensitivity levels required to not only detect but also extract cosmological information from the CRR in the presence of foregrounds. We use ${\tt CosmoSpec}$ to compute the CRR including all important radiative transfer effects and modifications to the recombination dynamics. We confirm that detections of the overall CRR signal are possible with spectrometer concepts like ${\it SuperPIXIE}$. However, for real exploitation of the cosmological information, a $\simeq 50$ times more sensitive spectrometer is required. While extremely futuristic, this could provide independent constraints on the primordial helium abundance, $Y_p$, and probe the presence of extra relativistic degrees of freedom during BBN and recombination. Significantly improving the constraints on other cosmological parameters requires even higher sensitivity (another factor of $\simeq 5$) when considering a combination of a CMB spectrometer with existing CMB data. To a large part this is due to astrophysical foregrounds which interestingly do not degrade the constraints on $Y_p$ and $N_{\rm eff}$ as much. A future CMB spectrometer could thus open a novel way of probing non-standard BBN scenarios, dark radiation and sterile neutrinos. In addition, inflation physics could be indirectly probed using the CRR in combination with existing and forthcoming CMB anisotropy data.

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