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利用宇宙红外背景(CIB)连续谱与[CII]强度映射联合约束恒星形成率

Constraining the Star Formation Rate using Joint CIB Continuum and [CII] Intensity Mapping

Zilu Zhou, Abhishek S. Maniyar, Anthony R. Pullen

AI总结:

本研究提出将传统视为噪声的宇宙红外背景连续谱与[CII]谱线强度映射信号联合,构建功率谱模型提升恒星形成率约束精度,验证了该方法在未来巡天参数下的显著效果及打破参数简并的作用。

摘要:

探测近邻宇宙的谱线强度映射(LIM)实验预计会观测到大量来自近红外和远红外星系的宇宙红外背景(CIB)连续谱辐射。为了利用LIM数据约束恒星形成率(SFR),我们提出,传统上被视为污染信号的CIB连续谱可与LIM信号结合,以提升SFR约束的可达精度。我们首先提出了一种功率谱模型,该模型能够在采用相同先验SFR模型的前提下,将连续谱辐射与谱线辐射联合起来。随后,我们在低温大孔径强度映射实验(EXCLAIM)的背景下分析了该联合模型的有效性,EXCLAIM利用[CII]分子线研究SFR。我们根据所提出的模型和EXCLAIM巡天的具体参数,数值计算了理论功率谱,并开展Fisher分析以获取SFR参数约束。我们发现,在EXCLAIM当前的巡天水平下,联合模型相较于单独使用LIM并无显著优势,但当我们采用未来LIM实验预期的、更乐观的巡天分辨率和角跨度参数时,其效果会变得十分显著。通过对Fisher形式体系进行推导,我们表明CIB不仅是额外的SFR敏感信号,还能够打破[CII] Fisher矩阵中自然出现的SFR参数简并。因此,加入CIB信号能让巡天参数的改进更好地体现在SFR约束效果中,可被未来的LIM实验有效利用。

英文摘要:

Line intensity mapping (LIM) experiments probing the nearby universe can expect a considerable amount of cosmic infrared background (CIB) contiuum emission coming from near and far-infrared galaxies. For the purpose of using the LIM data to constrain the star formation rate (SFR), we argue that the CIB continuum - traditionally treated as contamination - can be combined with the LIM signal to enhance the SFR constraints achievable. We first present a power spectrum model that is capable of joining continuum and line emissions that assume the same prior SFR model. We subsequently analyze the effectiveness of the joint model in the context of the EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM), which utilizes the [CII] molecular line to study the SFR. We numerically compute the theoretical power spectra according to our model and the EXCLAIM survey specifics, and perform Fisher analysis to obtain SFR parameter constraints. We find that although the joint model has no considerable advantage over LIM alone assuming the current survey level of EXCLAIM, its effects become significant when we consider more optimistic values of survey resolution and angular span that are expected of future LIM experiments. By manipulating the Fisher formalism, we show that the CIB is not only an additional SFR sensitive signal, but also serves to break the SFR parameter degeneracy that naturally emerges from the [CII] Fisher matrix. For this reason, addition of the CIB will allow improvements in the survey parameters to be better reflected in the SFR constraints, and can be effectively utilized by future LIM experiments.

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