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Nath, Biman B. "Cosmology with the intergalactic medium." Pramana 53, no. 6 (December 1999): 1021–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12043-999-0058-z.
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Bryan, Greg L., and Marie E. Machacek. "ThebDistribution of the Lyα Forest: Probing Cosmology and the Intergalactic Medium." Astrophysical Journal 534, no. 1 (May 2000): 57–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/308735.
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Sargent, Wallace L. W. "QSO Absorption Lines and Cosmology." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 124 (1987): 777–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900159911.
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The properties of the different types of QSO absorption systems are briefly summarized. An overview is given of the potential applications of absorption lines in cosmology. Recent work on the cosmological evolution of the different types of absorbers is discussed. The physical properties of the intergalactic medium are discussed in the light of recent work on the “Lyman alpha clouds”. The uses of the lines for studies of the evolution of clustering in the Universe are described. Recent puzzling results on common absorption in pairs of QSOs, particularly Q1037–2704 and Q1038–2712, are summarized.
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Ferrara, Andrea. "Cosmic metal enrichment." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 4, S255 (June 2008): 86–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921308024630.
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AbstractI review the present understanding of the process by which the universe has been enriched in the course of its history with heavy elements produced by stars and transported into the surrounding intergalactic medium. This process goes under the name of “cosmic metal enrichment” and presents some of the most challenging puzzles in present day physical cosmology. These are reviewed along with some proposed explanations that all together form a coherent working scenario.
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Duc, Pierre-Alain, Frédéric Bournaud, and Médéric Boquien. "Tidal dwarf galaxies as laboratories of star formation and cosmology." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 2, S237 (August 2006): 323–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921307001676.
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AbstractStar formation may take place in a variety of locations in interacting systems: in the dense core of mergers, in the shock regions at the interface of the colliding galaxies and even within the tidal debris expelled into the intergalactic medium. Along tidal tails, objects may be formed with masses ranging from those of super-star clusters to dwarf galaxies: the so-called Tidal Dwarf Galaxies (TDGs). Based on a set of multi-wavelength observations and extensive numerical simulations, we show how TDGs may simultaneously be used as laboratories to study the process of star-formation (SFE, IMF) in a specific environment and as probes of various cosmological properties, such as the distribution of dark matter and satellites around galaxies.
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Durrive, Jean-Baptiste, Hiroyuki Tashiro, Mathieu Langer, and Naoshi Sugiyama. "Mean Energy Density of Photogenerated Magnetic Fields Throughout the EoR." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 12, S333 (October 2017): 60–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921317011309.
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AbstractThere seems to be magnetic fields at all scales and epochs in our Universe, but their origin at large scales remains an important open question of cosmology. In this work we focus on the generation of magnetic fields in the intergalactic medium due to the photoionizations by the first galaxies, all along the Epoch of Reionization. Based on previous studies which considered only isolated sources, we develop an analytical model to estimate the mean magnetic energy density accumulated in the Universe by this process. In our model, without considering any amplification process, the Universe is globally magnetized by this mechanism to the order of, at least, several 10−18 G during the Epoch of Reionization (i.e. a few 10−20 G comoving).
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Eastwood, Michael W., and Gregg Hallinan. "Full-Sky Maps of the VHF Radio Sky with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 12, S333 (October 2017): 110–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921317011231.
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Abstract21-cm cosmology is a powerful new probe of the intergalactic medium at redshifts 20 ≳ z ≳ 6 corresponding to the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization. Current observations of the highly-redshifted 21-cm transition are limited by the dynamic range they can achieve against foreground sources of low-frequency (<200 MHz) of radio emission. We used the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA) to generate a series of new modern high-fidelity sky maps that capture emission on angular scales ranging from tens of degrees to ∼15 arcmin, and frequencies between 36 and 73 MHz. These sky maps were generated from the application of Tikhonov-regularized m-mode analysis imaging, which is a new interferometric imaging technique that is uniquely suited for low-frequency, wide-field, drift-scanning interferometers.
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Shapiro, Paul R. "Chemistry in the Early Universe." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 150 (1992): 73–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900089737.
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Galaxies and the first stars in the universe formed billions of years ago as a result of the cooperative effects of gravitational collapse and nonequilibrium chemistry. Gravity drew the primordial gas together into lumps; the formation of the first molecules in the universe, simple diatomic molecules like H2, H2+, HD, HeH+, LiH, and LiH+, may then have ensured that the heat generated by gravitational collapse and shock waves was radiated away rapidly enough to allow the gravitational collapse and fragmentation of these gaseous lumps to proceed to the point of forming stars and galaxies. We briefly mention a few of the latest studies of this primordial chemistry, including that in the evolving intergalactic medium (IGM) in a Cold Dark Matter (CDM) model cosmology and that in radiative shocks in the early universe.
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Li, Z., H. Gao, J.-J. Wei, Y.-P. Yang, B. Zhang, and Z.-H. Zhu. "Cosmology-insensitive estimate of IGM baryon mass fraction from five localized fast radio bursts." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 496, no. 1 (May 16, 2020): L28—L32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slaa070.
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ABSTRACT Five fast radio bursts (FRBs), including three apparently non-repeating ones, FRB 180924, FRB 181112, and FRB 190523, and two repeaters, FRB 121102 and FRB 180916.J0158+65, have already been localized so far. We apply a method developed recently by us to these five localized FRBs to give a cosmology-insensitive estimate of the fraction of baryon mass in the intergalactic medium, fIGM. Using the measured dispersion measure (DM) and luminosity distance dL data (inferred from the FRB redshifts and dL of Type Ia supernovae at the same redshifts) of the five FRBs, we constrain the local $f_{\rm IGM} = 0.84^{+0.16}_{-0.22}$ with no evidence of redshift dependence. This cosmology-insensitive estimate of fIGM from FRB observations is in excellent agreement with previous constraints using other probes. Moreover, using the three apparently non-repeating FRBs only we get a little looser but consistent result: $f_{\rm IGM} = 0.74^{+0.24}_{-0.18}$. In these two cases, reasonable estimations for the host galaxy DM contribution (DMhost) can be achieved by modelling it as a function of star formation rate. The constraints on both fIGM and DMhost are expected to be significantly improved with the rapid progress in localizing FRBs.
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Cen, Renyue, and Jeremiah P. Ostriker. "Cold Dark Matter Cosmology with Hydrodynamics and Galaxy Formation: The Evolution of the Intergalactic Medium and Background Radiation Fields." Astrophysical Journal 417 (November 1993): 404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/173321.
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Padmanabhan, Hamsa. "Neutral hydrogen in the post-reionization universe." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 12, S333 (October 2017): 216–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921317010821.
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AbstractThe evolution of neutral hydrogen (HI) across redshifts is a powerful probe of cosmology, large scale structure in the universe and the intergalactic medium. Using a data-driven halo model to describe the distribution of HI in the post-reionization universe (z ∼ 5 to 0), we obtain the best-fitting parameters from a rich sample of observational data: low redshift 21-cm emission line studies, intermediate redshift intensity mapping experiments, and higher redshift Damped Lyman Alpha (DLA) observations. Our model describes the abundance and clustering of neutral hydrogen across redshifts 0 - 5, and is useful for investigating different aspects of galaxy evolution and for comparison with hydrodynamical simulations. The framework can be applied for forecasting future observations with neutral hydrogen, and extended to the case of intensity mapping with molecular and other line transitions at intermediate redshifts.
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Samland, Markus. "A Model for the Formation of the Milky Way." Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 21, no. 2 (2004): 175–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/as04009.
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AbstractA new chemodynamical model for the formation and evolution of a Milky Way type galaxy is introduced. In this scenario, the galaxy forms inside a slowly growing dark matter halo in a ΛCDM cosmology. In contrast to the simple merger and collapse scenarios, the galactic mass grows continuously over a Hubble time. The whole formation scenario is simulated with a three-dimensional chemodynamical code. Within this model it is possible to follow the evolution of the galactic substructure in detail. The structure of the galactic components — halo, bulge, and disk — and the kinematical and chemical signatures of the stellar populations in the model are in excellent agreement with data from the Milky Way. The present model provides a detailed formation scenario for the Milky Way Galaxy and it yields new information about its kinematical and chemical history. The model predicts that even galaxies like the Milky Way show phases with supernova-driven galactic winds. However, with a mass loss of the order of only a few per cent of the total baryonic mass, these galaxies are in all probability not the main contributors to the enrichment of the intergalactic medium.
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Read, J. I., and Neil Trentham. "The baryonic mass function of galaxies." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 363, no. 1837 (October 24, 2005): 2693–710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2005.1648.
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In the Big Bang about 5% of the mass that was created was in the form of normal baryonic matter (neutrons and protons). Of this about 10% ended up in galaxies in the form of stars or of gas (that can be in molecules, can be atomic, or can be ionized). In this work, we measure the baryonic mass function of galaxies, which describes how the baryonic mass is distributed within galaxies of different types (e.g. spiral or elliptical) and of different sizes. This can provide useful constraints on our current cosmology, convolved with our understanding of how galaxies form. This work relies on various large astronomical surveys, e.g. the optical Sloan Digital Sky Survey (to observe stars) and the HIPASS radio survey (to observe atomic gas). We then perform an integral over our mass function to determine the cosmological density of baryons in galaxies: Ω b,gal =0.0035. Most of these baryons are in stars: Ω * =0.0028. Only about 20% are in gas. The error on the quantities, as determined from the range obtained between different methods, is ca 10%; systematic errors may be much larger. Most ( ca 90%) of the baryons in the Universe are not in galaxies. They probably exist in a warm/hot intergalactic medium. Searching for direct observational evidence and deeper theoretical understanding for this will form one of the major challenges for astronomy in the next decade.
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Mirocha, Jordan, Henri Lamarre, and Adrian Liu. "Systematic uncertainties in models of the cosmic dawn." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 504, no. 2 (April 5, 2021): 1555–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab949.
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ABSTRACT Models of the reionization and reheating of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at redshifts z ≳ 6 continue to grow more sophisticated in anticipation of near-future 21-cm, cosmic microwave background, and galaxy survey measurements. However, there are many potential sources of systematic uncertainty in models that could bias and/or degrade upcoming constraints if left unaccounted for. In this work, we examine three commonly ignored sources of uncertainty in models for the mean reionization and thermal histories of the IGM: the underlying cosmology, halo mass function (HMF), and choice of stellar population synthesis (SPS) model. We find that cosmological uncertainties affect the Thomson scattering optical depth at the few per cent level and the amplitude of the global 21-cm signal at the ∼5–10 mK level. The differences brought about by choice of HMF and SPS models are more dramatic, comparable to the 1σ error bar on τe and an ∼20 mK effect on the global 21-cm signal amplitude. Finally, we jointly fit galaxy luminosity functions and global 21-cm signals for all HMF/SPS combinations and find that (i) doing so requires additional free parameters to compensate for modelling systematics and (ii) the spread in constraints on parameters of interest for different HMF and SPS choices, assuming 5 mK noise in the global signal, is comparable to those obtained when adopting the 'true' HMF and SPS with ≳20 mK errors. Our work highlights the need for dedicated efforts to reduce modelling uncertainties in order to enable precision inference with future data sets.
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Chernoff, David F., Ariel Goobar, and Janina J. Renk. "Prospects of cosmic superstring detection through microlensing of extragalactic point-like sources." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 491, no. 1 (October 12, 2019): 596–614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2855.
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ABSTRACT The existence of cosmic superstrings may be probed by astronomical time domain surveys. When crossing the line of sight to point-like sources, strings produce a distinctive microlensing signature. We consider two avenues to hunt for a relic population of superstring loops: frequent monitoring of (1) stars in Andromeda, lensed by loops in the haloes of the Milky-Way and Andromeda and (2) supernovae at cosmological distances, lensed by loops in the intergalactic medium. We assess the potential of such experiments to detect and/or constrain strings with a range of tensions, 10−15 ≲ Gμ/c2 ≲ 10−6. The practical sensitivity is tied to cadence of observations which we explore in detail. We forecast that high-cadence monitoring of ∼105 stars on the far side of Andromeda over a year-long period will detect microlensing events if Gμ/c2 ∼ 10−13, while ∼106 stars will detect events if 10−13.5 < Gμ/c2 < 10−11.5; the upper and lower bounds of the accessible tension range continue to expand as the number of stars rises. We also analyse the ability to reject models in the absence of fluctuations. While challenging, these studies are within reach of forthcoming time-domain surveys. Supernova observations can hypothetically constrain models with 10−12 < Gμ/c2 < 10−6 without any optimization of the survey cadence. However, the event rate forecast suggests it will be difficult to reject models of interest. As a demonstration, we use observations from the Pantheon Type Ia supernova cosmology data set to place modest constraints on the number density of cosmic superstrings in a poorly tested region of the parameter space.
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Hall, Kirsten R., Nadia L. Zakamska, Graeme E. Addison, Nicholas Battaglia, Devin Crichton, Mark Devlin, Joanna Dunkley, et al. "Quantifying the thermal Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect and excess millimetre emission in quasar environments." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 490, no. 2 (October 3, 2019): 2315–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2751.
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ABSTRACT In this paper, we probe the hot, post-shock gas component of quasar-driven winds through the thermal Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (tSZ) effect. Combining data sets from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, the Herschel Space Observatory, and the Very Large Array, we measure average spectral energy distributions of 109 829 optically selected, radio quiet quasars from 1.4 to 3000 GHz in six redshift bins between 0.3 < z < 3.5. We model the emission components in the radio and far-infrared, plus a spectral distortion from the tSZ effect. At z > 1.91, we measure the tSZ effect at 3.8σ significance with an amplitude corresponding to a total thermal energy of 3.1 × 1060 erg. If this energy is due to virialized gas, then our measurement implies quasar host halo masses are ∼6 × 1012 h−1 M⊙. Alternatively, if the host dark matter halo masses are ∼2 × 1012 h−1 M⊙ as some measurements suggest, then we measure a >90 per cent excess in the thermal energy over that expected due to virialization. If the measured SZ effect is primarily due to hot bubbles from quasar-driven winds, we find that $(5^{+1.2}_{-1.3}$) per cent of the quasar bolometric luminosity couples to the intergalactic medium over a fiducial quasar lifetime of 100 Myr. An additional source of tSZ may be correlated structure, and further work is required to separate the contributions. At z ≤ 1.91, we detect emission at 95 and 148 GHz that is in excess of thermal dust and optically thin synchrotron emission. We investigate potential sources of this excess emission, finding that CO line emission and an additional optically thick synchrotron component are the most viable candidates.
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Inserra, C., R. C. Nichol, D. Scovacricchi, J. Amiaux, M. Brescia, C. Burigana, E. Cappellaro, et al. "Euclid: Superluminous supernovae in the Deep Survey." Astronomy & Astrophysics 609 (January 2018): A83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731758.
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Context. In the last decade, astronomers have found a new type of supernova called superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) due to their high peak luminosity and long light-curves. These hydrogen-free explosions (SLSNe-I) can be seen to z ~ 4 and therefore, offer the possibility of probing the distant Universe. Aims. We aim to investigate the possibility of detecting SLSNe-I using ESA’s Euclid satellite, scheduled for launch in 2020. In particular, we study the Euclid Deep Survey (EDS) which will provide a unique combination of area, depth and cadence over the mission. Methods. We estimated the redshift distribution of Euclid SLSNe-I using the latest information on their rates and spectral energy distribution, as well as known Euclid instrument and survey parameters, including the cadence and depth of the EDS. To estimate the uncertainties, we calculated their distribution with two different set-ups, namely optimistic and pessimistic, adopting different star formation densities and rates. We also applied a standardization method to the peak magnitudes to create a simulated Hubble diagram to explore possible cosmological constraints. Results. We show that Euclid should detect approximately 140 high-quality SLSNe-I to z ~ 3.5 over the first five years of the mission (with an additional 70 if we lower our photometric classification criteria). This sample could revolutionize the study of SLSNe-I at z > 1 and open up their use as probes of star-formation rates, galaxy populations, the interstellar and intergalactic medium. In addition, a sample of such SLSNe-I could improve constraints on a time-dependent dark energy equation-of-state, namely w(a), when combined with local SLSNe-I and the expected SN Ia sample from the Dark Energy Survey. Conclusions. We show that Euclid will observe hundreds of SLSNe-I for free. These luminous transients will be in the Euclid data-stream and we should prepare now to identify them as they offer a new probe of the high-redshift Universe for both astrophysics and cosmology.
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Japelj, J., C. Laigle, M. Puech, C. Pichon, H. Rahmani, Y. Dubois, J. E. G. Devriendt, et al. "Simulating MOS science on the ELT: Lyα forest tomography." Astronomy & Astrophysics 632 (December 2019): A94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936048.
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Mapping the large-scale structure through cosmic time has numerous applications in studies of cosmology and galaxy evolution. At z ≳ 2, the structure can be traced by the neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) by way of observing the Lyα forest towards densely sampled lines of sight of bright background sources, such as quasars and star-forming galaxies. We investigate the scientific potential of MOSAIC, a planned multi-object spectrograph on the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), for the 3D mapping of the IGM at z ≳ 3. We simulated a survey of 3 ≲ z ≲ 4 galaxies down to a limiting magnitude of mr ∼ 25.5 mag in an area of 1 degree2 in the sky. Galaxies and their spectra (including the line-of-sight Lyα absorption) were taken from the lightcone extracted from the Horizon-AGN cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. The quality of the reconstruction of the original density field was studied for different spectral resolutions (R = 1000 and R = 2000, corresponding to the transverse typical scales of 2.5 and 4 Mpc) and signal-to-noise ratios (S/N) of the spectra. We demonstrate that the minimum S/N (per resolution element) of the faintest galaxies that a survey like this has to reach is S/N = 4. We show that a survey with this sensitivity enables a robust extraction of cosmic filaments and the detection of the theoretically predicted galaxy stellar mass and star-formation rate gradients towards filaments. By simulating the realistic performance of MOSAIC, we obtain S/N(Tobs, R, mr) scaling relations. We estimate that ≲35 (65) nights of observation time are required to carry out the survey with the instrument’s high multiplex mode and with a spectral resolution of R = 1000 (2000). A survey with a MOSAIC-concept instrument on the ELT is found to enable the mapping of the IGM at z > 3 on Mpc scales, and as such will be complementary to and competitive with other planned IGM tomography surveys.
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Romano, M., A. Grazian, E. Giallongo, S. Cristiani, F. Fontanot, K. Boutsia, F. Fiore, and N. Menci. "Lyman continuum escape fraction and mean free path of hydrogen ionizing photons for bright z ∼ 4 QSOs from SDSS DR14." Astronomy & Astrophysics 632 (November 26, 2019): A45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935550.
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Context. One of the main challenges in observational cosmology is related to the redshift evolution of the average hydrogen (HI) ionization in the Universe, as evidenced by the changing in ionization level of the intergalactic medium (IGM) through cosmic time. Starting from the first cosmic reionization, the rapid evolution of the IGM physical properties in particular poses severe constraints for the identification of the sources responsible for maintaining its high level of ionization up to lower redshifts. Aims. In order to probe the ionization level of the IGM and the ionization capabilities of bright quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) at z = 4, we selected a sample of 2508 QSOs drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS, DR14) in the redshift interval 3.6 ≤ z ≤ 4.6 and absolute magnitude range −29.0 ≲ M1450 ≲ −26.0. Particularly, we focus on the estimate of the escape fraction of HI-ionizing photons and their mean free path (MFP), which are fundamental for characterizing the surrounding IGM. Methods. Starting from UV/optical rest-frame spectra of the whole QSO sample from the SDSS survey, we estimated the escape fraction and free path individually for each of the QSOs. We calculated the Lyman continuum (LyC) escape fraction as the flux ratio blueward (∼900 Å rest frame) and redward (∼930 Å rest frame) of the Lyman limit. We then obtained the probability distribution function (PDF) of the individual free paths of the QSOs in the sample and studied its evolution in luminosity and redshift, comparing our results with those in literature. Results. We find a lower limit to the mean LyC escape fraction of 0.49, in agreement with the values obtained for both brighter and fainter sources at the same redshift. We show that the free paths of ionizing photons are characterized by a skewed distribution function that peaks at low values, with an average of ∼49 − 59 proper Mpc at z ∼ 4, after possible associated absorbers (AAs) were excluded. This value is higher than the one obtained at the same redshift by many authors in the literature using different techniques. Moreover, the PDF of free path gives information that is complementary to the MFP derived through the stacking technique. Finally, we also find that the redshift evolution of this parameter might be milder than previously thought. Conclusions. Our new determination of the MFP at z ∼ 4 implies that previous estimates of the HI photoionization rate ΓHI available in the literature should be corrected by a factor of 1.2−1.7. These results have important implications when they are extrapolated at the epoch of reionization.
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Syromyatnikov, A. G. "Electro-gravity spin density waves." International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics 14, no. 10 (September 13, 2017): 1750146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219887817501468.
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It is known that some string models predict that strong bursts of gravitational radiation which should be detectable by LIGO, VIRGO and LISA detectors are accompanied by cosmologic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). GRBs of low-energy gamma ray are associated with core-collapse supernovae (SN). However, measurements of the X-ray afterglow of very intense GRBs (allow a critical test of GRB theories) disagree with that predicted by widely accepted fireball internal–external shocks models of GRBs. It is also known that in a system of a large number of fermions, pairs of gravitational interaction occur on spontaneous breaking of the vacuum spatial symmetry, accompanied by gravitational mass defect. In another side, the space rays generation mechanism on a method of direct transformation of intergalactic gamma-rays to the proton current on spin shock-waves ensures precise agreement between generated proton currents (spin shock waves theory) with the angular distribution data of Galactic gamma-rays as well as for the individual pulses of gamma-/X-ray bursts. There is a precise confirmation of the generated currents (theory) with the burst radiation data characterized by the standard deviation of [Formula: see text] in intensity in relative units within the sensitivity of the equipment. Thus, it was found that the spin angular momentum conservation law (equation of dynamics of spin shock waves) in the X-ray/gamma ranges is fulfilled exactly in real time. The nature of gamma bursts is largely determined by the influence of powerful external sources. The angular distributions anisotropy of Galactic gamma rays and pulsars are determined by the paradoxes way, so this can only take place under conditions of the isotropy of space–time. In this regard, promising gravity in a Finsler space can have the selected direction in flat Minkowski space metric with torsion as in the Einstein–Cartan theory. Considering the induction of torsion in conformal transformations of tetrades (N-ades in arbitrary dimension N) under the Conformal Gauge Theory of Gravity (CGTG), here is considered an exact cosmological solution with Friedman’s asymptotic in the form of conformal flat Fock’s metrics at large times, describing the stage of decay on a cold dust-like medium of do-not-interacting-among-themselves particles and a light-like isotropic radiation. It is shown that at high times, indeed, the process of enlarging the space–time in the model metrics Friedman conformal is equivalent to Minkowski space with a gradient torsion trace in the CGTG Newtonian limit, accompanied by a polarization effect separation of electric charges induced by an electric field [Formula: see text] is manifested in the formation of plasma-like medium with a zero complete electric charge, that in the later stages of evolution is identical to the Fock’s model of a cold dust-like medium of do-not-interacting-among-themselves particles moving here with the same speed. The trace of torsion on the CGTG formula is freezing into an electromagnetic field spin tensor trace density and [Formula: see text] defined inside a spherical surface, moving at the speed of light, on which experiencing a gap. Therefore, this decision takes the form of an electro-gravity spin density wave, as performed in kinematic and dynamic close connection conditions for theorems on spin shock waves with spin flip at the front of the wave, moving at the speed of light in a vacuum. The theoretical dependence of electro-gravity wave energy output from the size of the emitting object is received. When applied to GRBs, this can give a new mechanism of nonthermal gamma rays production.
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Hennawi, Joseph F., Frederick B. Davies, Feige Wang, and Jose Oñorbe. "Probing Reionization and Early Cosmic Enrichment with the Mg II Forest." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, July 6, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1883.
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Abstract Because the same massive stars that reionized the intergalactic medium (IGM) inevitably exploded as supernovae that polluted the Universe with metals, the history of cosmic reionization and enrichment are intimately intertwined. While the overly sensitive Lyα transition completely saturates in a neutral IGM, strong low-ionization metal lines like the Mg ii λ2796, λ2804 doublet will give rise to a detectable ‘metal-line forest’ if the metals produced during reionization (Z ∼ 10−3Z⊙) permeate the neutral IGM. We simulate the Mg ii forest for the first time by combining a large hydrodynamical simulation with a semi-numerical reionization topology, assuming a simple enrichment model where the IGM is uniformly suffused with metals. In contrast to the traditional approach of identifying discrete absorbers, we treat the absorption as a continuous random field and measure its two-point correlation function, leveraging techniques from precision cosmology. We show that a realistic mock dataset of 10 JWST spectra can simultaneously determine the Mg abundance, $[{\rm Mg}/ {\rm H}]$, with a 1σ precision of 0.02 dex and measure the global neutral fraction $\langle x_{\rm H\, {\small I}}\rangle$ to 5% for a Universe with $\langle x_{\rm H\, {\small I}}\rangle = 0.74$ and $[{\rm Mg} / {\rm H}] = -3.7$. Alternatively, if the IGM is pristine, a null-detection of the Mg ii forest would set a stringent upper limit on the IGM metallicity of $[{\rm Mg}/ {\rm H}] < -4.4$ at 95% credibility, assuming $\langle x_{\rm H\, {\small I}}\rangle > 0.5$ from another probe. Concentrations of metals in the circumgalactic environs of galaxies can significantly contaminate the IGM signal, but we demonstrate how these discrete absorbers can be easily identified and masked such that their impact on the correlation function is negligible. The Mg ii forest thus has tremendous potential to precisely constrain the reionization and enrichment history of the Universe.