Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-04-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
12 pages, 7 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Scientific paper
We assess the effect of a population of high-redshift quasars on the 21-cm power spectrum during the epoch of reionisation. Our approach is to implement a semi-numerical scheme to calculate the three-dimensional structure of ionised regions surrounding massive halos at high redshift. We include the ionising influence of luminous quasars by populating a simulated overdensity field with quasars using a Monte Carlo Markov Chain algorithm. We find that quasars modify both the amplitude and shape of the power spectrum at a level which is of the same order as the fractional contribution to reionisation. The modification is found both at constant redshift and at constant global neutral fraction, and arises because ionising photons produced by quasars are biased relative to the density field at a level that is higher than steller ionising photons. Our results imply that quasar ionisation will need to be included in detailed modelling of observed 21-cm power spectra.
Geil Paul M.
Wyithe Stuart J. B.
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