期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 763, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/763/2/90
关键词
cosmology: theory; dark ages, reionization, first stars; early universe; methods: data analysis; methods: statistical; radio lines: general
资金
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (973 Program) [2009CB824900, 2009CB824904, 2013CB837900]
- National Science Foundation of China [10878001, 10973010, 11125313, 11203017, 11203041, 11261140641]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [KJZD-EW-T01]
- Shanghai Science and Technology Commission [11DZ2260700]
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University Innovation Fund for Postgraduates
With the intent of correctly restoring the redshifted 21 cm signals emitted by neutral hydrogen during the cosmic reionization processes, we re-examine the separation approaches based on the quadratic polynomial fitting technique in frequency space in order to investigate whether they work satisfactorily with complex foreground by quantitatively evaluating the quality of restored 21 cm signals in terms of sample statistics. We construct the foreground model to characterize both spatial and spectral substructures of the real sky, and use it to simulate the observed radio spectra. By comparing between different separation approaches through statistical analysis of restored 21 cm spectra and corresponding power spectra, as well as their constraints on the mean halo bias b and average ionization fraction x(e) of the reionization processes, at z = 8 and the noise level of 60 mK we find that although the complex foreground can be well approximated with quadratic polynomial expansion, a significant part of the Mpc-scale components of the 21 cm signals (75% for greater than or similar to 6 h(-1) Mpc scales and 34% for greater than or similar to 1 h(-1) Mpc scales) is lost because it tends to be misidentified as part of the foreground when the single-narrow-segment separation approach is applied. The best restoration of the 21 cm signals and the tightest determination of b and xe can be obtained with the three-narrow-segment fitting technique as proposed in this paper. Similar results can be obtained at other redshifts.
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