Hydrogen Clouds before Reionization: a Lognormal Model Approach

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2003-08-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0308105v1

Astrophys.J.598:1-12,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Paper in AAStex, 12 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/378793

We study the baryonic gas clouds (the IGM) in the universe before the reionization with the lognormal model which is shown to be dynamcially legitimate in describing the fluctuation evolution in quasilinear as well as nonlinear regimes in recent years. The probability distribution function of the mass field in the LN model is long tailed and so plays an important role in rare events, such as the formation of the first generation of baryonic objects. We calculate density and velocity distributions of the IGM at very high spatial resolutions, and simulate the distributions at resolution of 0.15 kpc from z=7 to 15 in the LCDM cosmological model. We performed a statistics of the hydrogen clouds including column densities, clumping factors, sizes, masses, and spatial number density etc. One of our goals is to identify which hydrogen clouds are going to collapse. By inspecting the mass density profile and the velocity profile of clouds, we found that the velocity outflow significantly postpones the collapsing process in less massive clouds, in spite of their masses are larger than the Jeans mass. Consequently, only massive (> 10^5 M_sun) clouds can form objects at higher redshift, and less massive (10^4-10^5) collapsed objects are formed later. For example, although the mass fraction in clouds with sizes larger than the Jeans length is already larger than 1 at z=15, there is only a tiny fraction of mass (10^{-8}) in the clouds which are collapsed at that time. If all the ionizing photons, and the 10^{-2} metallicity observed at low redshift are produced by the first 1% mass of collapsed baryonic clouds, the majority of those first generation objects would not happen until z=10.

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