The 21 cm Signature of Shock Heated and Diffuse Cosmic String Wakes

Details The 21 cm Signature of Shock Heated and Diffuse Cosmic String Wakes The 21 cm Signature of Shock Heated and Diffuse Cosmic String Wakes

2012-03-11

arxiv.org/abs/1203.2307v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

9 pages, 4 figures, typo in the numerical analysis corrected, new graphs, basic results unchanged

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The analysis of the 21 cm signature of cosmic string wakes is extended in several ways. First we consider the constraints on $G\mu$ from the absorption signal of shock heated wakes laid down much later than matter radiation equality. Secondly we analyze the signal of diffuse wake, that is those wakes in which there is a baryon overdensity but which have not shock heated. Finally we compare the size of these signals compared to the expected thermal noise per pixel which dominates over the background cosmic gas brightness temperature and find that the cosmic string signal will exceed the thermal noise of an individual pixel in the Square Kilometre Array for string tensions $G\mu > 2.5 \times 10^{-8}$.

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