Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-02-21
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 360 (2005) 1055-1062
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, 5 figures, MNRAS in press
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09089.x
We study CMB secondary anisotropies produced by inhomogeneous reionization by means of cosmological simulations coupled with the radiative transfer code CRASH. The reionization history is consistent with the WMAP Thomson optical depth determination. We find that the signal arising from this process dominates over the primary CMB component for l > 4000 and reaches a maximum amplitude of l(l+1)C_l/2\pi ~ 1.6 x 10^{-13} on arcmin scale, i.e. l as large as several thousands. We then cross-correlate secondary CMB anisotropy maps with neutral hydrogen 21cm line emission fluctuations obtained from the same simulations. The two signals are highly anti-correlated on angular scales corresponding to the typical size of HII regions (including overlapping) at the 21cm map redshift. We show how the CMB/21cm cross-correlation can be used to: (a) study the nature of the reionization sources, (b) reconstruct the cosmic reionization history, (c) infer the mean cosmic ionization level at any redshift. We discuss the feasibility of the proposed experiment with forthcoming facilities.
Baccigalupi Carlo
Ciardi Benedetta
Ferrara Andrea
Salvaterra Ruben
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