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快速射电暴红移分布与星系际重子含量的联合推断

Joint inference on the redshift distribution of fast radio burst and on the intergalactic baryon content

Stefan Hackstein, Marcus Brüggen, Franco Vazza

摘要:

背景:快速射电暴是起源于银河系外的瞬时射电脉冲。它们的色散度量是源和观测者之间电离星系际介质中重子含量的指示。然而,使用非定域快速射电暴的推论是退化到宿主星系的红移分布。方法:我们进行联合推断的星系际重子含量和快速射电暴红移分布与贝叶斯统计的使用,通过比较不同的模型的可能性,以重现所观察到的统计数据,以推断出最可能的模型。除了两种模型的星系际介质,我们认为从本地环境的源,假设是一个磁星,以及主机和干预星系的代表性合奏的贡献。结果如下:假设丢失的重子存在于电离的星系际介质中,我们的结果表明,观测到的快速射电暴的红移分布峰值在$z \lesssim 0.6$。然而,从不同的仪器关于星系际重子内容的结论分歧,因此需要额外的变化,观察到的主机红移分布,超出了望远镜的选择效应所造成的。

英文摘要:

Context: Fast radio bursts are transient radio pulses of extragalactic origin. Their dispersion measure is indicative of the baryon content in the ionized intergalactic medium between the source and the observer. However, inference using unlocalized fast radio bursts is degenerate to the distribution of redshifts of host galaxies. Method: We perform a joint inference of the intergalactic baryon content and the fast radio burst redshift distribution with the use of Bayesian statistics by comparing the likelihood of different models to reproduce the observed statistics in order to infer the most likely models. In addition to two models of the intergalactic medium, we consider contributions from the local environment of the source, assumed to be a magnetar, as well as a representative ensemble of host and intervening galaxies. Results: Assuming that the missing baryons reside in the ionized intergalactic medium, our results suggest that the redshift distribution of observed fast radio bursts peaks at $z \lesssim 0.6$. However, conclusions from different instruments regarding the intergalactic baryon content diverge and thus require additional changes to the observed distribution of host redshifts, beyond those caused by telescope selection effects.

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