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用定域快速射电暴寻找星系际介质中的失踪重子

Finding the missing baryons in the intergalactic medium with localized fast radio bursts

K. B. Yang, Q. Wu, F. Y. Wang

摘要:

重子失踪问题是天文学中尚未解决的主要问题之一。快速射电暴(FRB)是一种明亮的毫秒级脉冲,起源不明。FRB的色散度量被定义为沿视线方向的电子柱密度,并考虑到每个电离重子。在这里,我们使用22个定域FRB测量宇宙的重子含量。不同于以往的作品,固定的FRB宿主星系的色散措施的值,忽略了星系际介质(IGM)的不均匀性,我们使用的色散措施的概率分布贡献的宿主星系和IGM从国家的最先进的IllustrisTNG模拟。我们导出了$Ω_b=0.0490^{+0.0036}_{-0.0033}$(1 $σ$)的宇宙重子密度,精度为7.0%.这个数值与其他测量结果非常一致,例如宇宙微波背景和大爆炸核合成。我们的工作支持重子并没有消失,而是存在于IGM中。

英文摘要:

The missing baryon problem is one of the major unsolved problems in astronomy. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright millisecond pulses with unknown origins. The dispersion measure of FRBs is defined as the electron column density along the line of sight, and accounts for every ionized baryon. Here we measure the baryon content of the Universe using 22 localized FRBs. Unlike previous works that fixed the value of dispersion measure of FRB host galaxies and ignored the inhomogeneities of the intergalactic medium (IGM), we use the probability distributions of dispersion measures contributed by host galaxies and IGM from the state-of-the-art IllustrisTNG simulations. We derive the cosmic baryon density of $Ω_b=0.0490^{+0.0036}_{-0.0033}$ (1$σ$), with a precision of 7.0%. This value is dramatically consistent with other measurements, such as the cosmic microwave background and Big Bang nucleosynthesis. Our work supports that the baryons are not missing, but residing in the IGM.

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