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再电离时代21厘米双谱:光锥效应和可探测性的影响

The Epoch of Reionization 21-cm Bispectrum: The impact of light-cone effects and detectability

Rajesh Mondal, Garrelt Mellema, Abinash Kumar Shaw, Mohd Kamran, Suman Majumdar

摘要:

我们研究了再电离时期(EoR)的21厘米信号的球平均双谱。该度量提供了预期为高的信号的非高斯性水平的定量测量。我们重点研究了光锥效应对双谱的影响及其在未来SKA-Low望远镜中的探测能力。我们的研究是基于一个单一的再电离光锥模型和一个合奏的50实现的21厘米的信号,以估计宇宙方差误差。我们用一种新的优化的直接估计方法DviSukta计算双谱,该方法计算所有可能的独特三角形的双谱。我们发现,光锥效应成为重要的尺度$k_1 \lesssim 0.1\,{\rm Mpc}^{-1}$,其中大多数三角形的宇宙方差误差占主导地位。只有对于压缩极限三角形,光锥效应的影响超过宇宙方差。结合系统噪声和宇宙方差的影响,我们发现,$\sim 3σ$检测的双谱是可能的所有独特的三角形形状周围的规模$k_1 \sim 0.2\,{\rm Mpc}^{-1}$,宇宙方差误差占主导地位以上和噪声误差低于这个长度尺度。只有压缩极限三角形能够在很宽的尺度范围内实现超过$5σ$的意义,$k_1 \lesssim 0.8\,{\rm Mpc}^{-1}$。我们的结果表明,在所有可能的三角形组合的双谱,压缩极限之一将是最可测量的,因此是有用的。

英文摘要:

We study the spherically averaged bispectrum of the 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). This metric provides a quantitative measurement of the level of non-Gaussianity of the signal which is expected to be high. We focus on the impact of the light-cone effect on the bispectrum and its detectability with the future SKA-Low telescope. Our investigation is based on a single reionization light-cone model and an ensemble of 50 realisations of the 21-cm signal to estimate the cosmic variance errors. We calculate the bispectrum with a new, optimised direct estimation method, DviSukta which calculates the bispectrum for all possible unique triangles. We find that the light-cone effect becomes important on scales $k_1 \lesssim 0.1\,{\rm Mpc}^{-1}$ where for most triangle shapes the cosmic variance errors dominate. Only for the squeezed limit triangles, the impact of the light-cone effect exceeds the cosmic variance. Combining the effects of system noise and cosmic variance we find that $\sim 3σ$ detection of the bispectrum is possible for all unique triangle shapes around a scale of $k_1 \sim 0.2\,{\rm Mpc}^{-1}$, and cosmic variance errors dominate above and noise errors below this length scale. Only the squeezed limit triangles are able to achieve a more than $5σ$ significance over a wide range of scales, $k_1 \lesssim 0.8\,{\rm Mpc}^{-1}$. Our results suggest that among all the possible triangle combinations for the bispectrum, the squeezed limit one will be the most measurable and hence useful.

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