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Lyα光子通过电离星系际介质的散射:I.光谱能量分布

Scattering of Lyα Photons through the Reionizing Intergalactic Medium: I. Spectral Energy Distribution

Hyunbae Park, Hyo Jeong Kim, Kyungjin Ahn, Hyunmi Song, Intae Jung, Pierre Ocvirk, Paul R. Shapiro, Taha Dawoodbhoy, Jenny G. Sorce, Ilian T. Iliev

摘要:

在再电离过程中,星系Ly $α$发射的一部分在星系际介质(IGM)中散射,并以扩散光的形式出现,从源延伸数百万秒差距。我们研究如何探测早期星系及其周围的IGM使用这种散射光的属性。我们创建了一个蒙特卡罗算法来跟踪单个光子,并从以前的文献中复制了几个测试用例。然后,我们在CoDaII模拟的模拟IGM上运行我们的代码。我们发现,散射光可以留下一个可观察到的印记,如果收集超过几个平方弧分的出射光谱。散射可以通过增加光子的路径长度来使发射变红,但是它也可以通过根据散射体的特殊运动向上散射光子来使光子变蓝。与共振附近发射的光子相比,在共振的远蓝色一侧发射的光子在频率和空间上都显得更扩展。这为向蓝发射提供了区别特征,其不能受到直接来自光源的未散射光的约束。IGM的电离状态也影响散射光谱。当源处于小的HII区域时,发射在周围的HI区域中经历更多的散射,而不管初始频率如何,并且最终会发生更多的红移和空间扩展。这可导致在再电离期间朝向高$z$的散射光减弱。我们的研究结果提供了一个框架,解释散射光测量高$z$积分场单位调查。

英文摘要:

During reionization, a fraction of galactic Ly$α$ emission is scattered in the intergalactic medium (IGM) and appears as a diffuse light extending megaparsecs from the source. We investigate how to probe the properties of the early galaxies and their surrounding IGM using this scattered light. We create a Monte Carlo algorithm to track individual photons and reproduce several test cases from previous literature. Then, we run our code on the simulated IGM of the CoDaII simulation. We find that the scattered light can leave an observable imprint on the emergent spectrum if collected over several square arcminutes. Scattering can redden the emission by increasing the path lengths of photons, but it can also make the photons bluer by upscattering them according to the peculiar motion of the scatterer. The photons emitted on the far blue side of the resonance appear more extended in both frequency and space compared to those emitted near the resonance. This provides a discriminating feature for the blueward emission, which cannot be constrained from the unscattered light coming directly from the source. The ionization state of the IGM also affects the scattered light spectrum. When the source is in a small HII region, the emission goes through more scatterings in the surrounding HI region regardless of the initial frequency and ends up more redshifted and spatially extended. This can result in a weakening of the scattered light toward high $z$ during reionization. Our results provide a framework for interpreting the scattered light to be measured by high-$z$ integral-field-unit surveys.

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