Observing the Reionization Epoch Through 21 Centimeter Radiation

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2003-05-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0305065v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 347 (2004) 187

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 7 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07187.x

We study the observability of the reionization epoch through the 21 cm hyperfine transition of neutral hydrogen. We use a high-resolution cosmological simulation (including hydrodynamics) together with a fast radiative transfer algorithm to compute the evolution of 21 cm emission from the intergalactic medium (IGM) in several different models of reionization. We show that the mean brightness temperature of the IGM drops from dT_b~25 mK to dT_b~0.01 mK during overlap (over a frequency interval of ~25 MHz), while the root mean square brightness temperature fluctuations on small scales drop abruptly from ~10 mK before overlap to ~0.1 mK at the end of overlap. We show that 21 cm observations can efficiently discriminate models with a single early reionization epoch from models with two distinct reionization episodes.

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