Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-12-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 8 figures; Accepted for publication in ApJ, with minor revision in text
Scientific paper
10.1086/504972
The H atoms inside minihalos (i.e. halos with virial temperatures T_vir < 10^4 K, in the mass range roughly from 10^4 M_sun to 10^8 M_sun) during the cosmic dark ages in a LambdaCDM universe produce a redshifted background of collisionally-pumped 21-cm line radiation which can be seen in emission relative to the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Previously, we used semi-analytical calculations of the 21-cm signal from individual halos of different mass and redshift and the evolving mass function of minihalos to predict the mean brightness temperature of this 21-cm background and its angular fluctuations. Here we use high-resolution cosmological N-body and hydrodynamic simulations of structure formation at high redshift (z>8) to compute the mean brightness temperature of this background from both minihalos and the intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the onset of Ly-alpha radiative pumping. We find that the 21-cm signal from gas in collapsed, virialized minihalos dominates over that from the diffuse shocked gas in the IGM.
Ahn Kyungjin
Alvarez Marcelo A.
Iliev Ilian T.
Martel Hugo
Ryu Dongsu
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