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X-Shooter XQ-100中Lyman-beta森林功率谱及其与Lyman-alpha森林交叉的测量

A measurement of the Lyman-beta forest power spectrum and its cross with the Lyman-alpha forest in X-Shooter XQ-100

Bayu Wilson, Vid Iršič, Matthew McQuinn

摘要:

莱曼α森林是大尺度结构探测器,我们似乎对最高波数进行了建模控制。这使得莱曼-α森林对于限制暗物质的热度和再电离过程的时间具有极大的意义。然而,标准的统计量,莱曼α森林功率谱,是无法强烈约束IGM的温度-密度关系,这种能力进一步限制了如何以及其他高波数敏感参数可以约束。为了打破这些简并,我们测量了莱曼β森林的功率谱及其与同时代莱曼α森林的互相关性,使用VLT/X-Shooter XQ-100 Legacy Survey中z=3.5-4.5的100个类星体的光谱,其动机是莱曼β过渡的较小吸收截面,使其对相对于莱曼α过渡的较高密度敏感。我们的推论,从这个测量的IGM温度密度关系似乎闩锁一致到最近紧低红移莱曼α森林的限制。z=3.4-4.7的趋势,我们发现使用莱曼-α $-$莱曼-β交叉相关表明,随着红移的减少,温度-密度关系的斜率变平。这是预期的趋势,从正在进行的氦II再电离,有足够的时间达到渐近温度密度斜率后,氢再电离完成。此外,我们的测量提供了一个一致性检查IGM模型,解释莱曼-阿尔法森林,与交叉相关免疫系统学是不相关的两个森林之间,如金属线污染。

英文摘要:

The Lyman-alpha forest is the large-scale structure probe for which we appear to have modeling control to the highest wavenumbers. This makes the Lyman-alpha forest of great interest for constraining the warmness/fuzziness of dark matter and the timing of reionization processes. However, the standard statistic, the Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum, is unable to strongly constrain the IGM temperature-density relation, and this inability further limits how well other high wavenumber-sensitive parameters can be constrained. With the aim of breaking these degeneracies, we measure the power spectrum of the Lyman-beta forest and its cross correlation with the coeval Lyman-alpha forest using the one hundred spectra of z=3.5-4.5 quasars in the VLT/X-Shooter XQ-100 Legacy Survey, motivated by the Lyman-beta transition's smaller absorption cross section that makes it sensitive to somewhat higher densities relative to the Lyman-alpha transition. Our inferences from this measurement for the IGM temperature-density relation appear to latch consistently onto the recent tight lower-redshift Lyman-alpha forest constraints. The z=3.4-4.7 trends we find using the Lyman-alpha$-$Lyman-beta cross correlation show a flattening of the slope of the temperature-density relation with decreasing redshift. This is the trend anticipated from ongoing HeII reionization and there being sufficient time to reach the asymptotic temperature-density slope after hydrogen reionization completes. Furthermore, our measurements provide a consistency check on IGM models that explain the Lyman-alpha forest, with the cross correlation being immune to systematics that are uncorrelated between the two forests, such as metal line contamination.

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