Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-02-22
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.369:2005-2012,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 5 figures. Minor changes after referee report. MNRAS, in press (figures are better seen in the pdf document)
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10465.x
Possible detection of signatures of structure formation at the end of the 'dark age' epoch (z~40-20) is examined. We discuss the spectral-spatial fluctuations in the CMBR temperature produced by elastic resonant scattering of CMBR photons on HD molecules located in protostructures moving with peculiar velocity. Detailed chemical kinematic evolution of HD molecules in the expanding homogeneous medium is calculated. Then, the HD abundances are linked to protostructures at their maximum expansion, whose properties are estimated by using the top-hat spherical approach and the LambdaCDM cosmology. We find that the optical depths in the HD three lowest pure rotational lines for high-peak protohaloes at their maximum expansion are much higher than those in LiH molecule. The corresponding spectral-spatial fluctuation amplitudes however are probably too weak as to be detected by current and forthcoming millimeter-telescope facilities. We extend our estimates of spectral-spatial fluctuations to gas clouds inside collapsed CDM haloes by using results from a crude model of HD production in these clouds. The fluctuations for the highest-peak CDM haloes at redshifts ~20-30 could be detected in the future. Observations will be important to test model predictions of early structure formation in the universe.
Avila-Reese Vladimir
Lipovka Anton A.
Nunez-Lopez R.
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