期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 394, 期 2, 页码 960-977出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14383.x
关键词
intergalactic medium; cosmology: theory; large-scale structure of Universe
资金
- HEFCE
- STFC/PPARC
- STFC [ST/G00269X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/G00269X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
We use a set of seminumerical simulations based on the Zel'dovich approximation, the friends-offriends algorithm and excursion set formalism to generate reionization maps of high dynamic range with a range of assumptions regarding the distribution and luminosity of ionizing sources and the spatial distribution of sinks for the ionizing radiation. We find that ignoring the inhomogeneous spatial distribution of regions of high gas density where recombinations are important - as is often done in studies of this kind - can lead to misleading conclusions regarding the topology of reionization, especially if reionization occurs in the photon-starved regime suggested by Ly alpha forest data. The inhomogeneous spatial distribution of recombinations significantly reduces the mean-free path of ionizing photons and the typical size of coherently ionized regions. Reionization proceeds then much more as an outside-in process. Low-density regions far from ionizing sources become ionized before regions of high gas density not hosting sources of ionizing radiation. The spatial distribution of sinks of ionization radiation also significantly affects the shape and amplitude of the power spectrum of fluctuations of 21 cm emission. The slope of the 21 cm power spectrum as measured by upcoming 21 cm experiments should be able to distinguish to what extent the topology of reionization proceeds outside-in or inside-out, while the evolution of the amplitude of the power spectrum with increasing ionized mass fraction should be sensitive to the spatial distribution and the luminosity of ionizing sources.
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