Statistics – Computation
Scientific paper
Jan 2012
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #143.13
Statistics
Computation
Scientific paper
Neutral hydrogen atoms in the intergalactic medium at high redshift contribute a diffuse background of redshifted 21cm radiation which encodes information about the physical conditions in the early universe at z>6 during and before the epoch of reionization (EOR). Tomography of this 21cm background has emerged as a promising cosmological probe. The assumption that cosmological information in the 21cm signal can be separated from astrophysical information (i.e. that fluctuations in the total matter density can be measured separately from the dependence on patchy reionization and spin temperature) is based on linear perturbation theory and the anisotropy introduced by peculiar velocity. While it is true that fluctuations in the matter density at such high redshift are likely to be of linear amplitude on the large scales which correspond to the beam- and bandwidths of upcoming experiments, the nonlinearity of smaller scale structure in density, velocity and reionization patchiness can leave its imprint on the signal, which might then spoil the linear separation scheme. We have built a robust and efficient computational scheme to predict the 21cm background in observer redshift space, given real-space simulation data, which accounts for peculiar velocity in every detail. We apply this to the results of new state-of-the-art large-scale reionization simulations which combine large-box, high-resolution N-body simulations of the LCDM universe (with up to 165 billion particles in comoving boxes up to 607 Mpc on a side in present units) with radiative transfer simulations of reionization, to test the validity of using 21cm background measurements for cosmology and characterize the predicted signal for upcoming radio surveys. This work was supported in part by NSF grants AST-0708176 and AST-1009799, NASA grants NNX07AH09G, NNG04G177G and NNX11AE09G, and Chandra grant SAO TM8-9009X.
Ahn Kyungjin
Datta Kanan K.
Iliev Ilian T.
Mao Yi
Mellema Garrelt
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