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PAPER-64 Constraints On Reionization II: The Temperature Of The z=8.4 Intergalactic Medium | | Jonathan C. Pober
; Zaki S. Ali
; Aaron R. Parsons
; Matthew McQuinn
; James E. Aguirre
; Gianni Bernardi
; Richard F. Bradley
; Chris L. Carilli
; Carina Cheng
; David R. DeBoer
; Matthew R. Dexter
; Steven R. Furlanetto
; Jasper Grobbelaar
; Jasper Horrell
; Daniel C. Jacobs
; Patricia J. Klima
; Saul A. Kohn
; Adrian Liu
; David H. E. MacMahon
; Matthys Maree
; Andrei Mesinger
; David F. Moore
; Nima Razavi-Ghods
; Irina I. Stefan
; William P. Walbrugh
; Andre Walker
; Haoxuan Zheng
; | | Date: |
28 Feb 2015 | | Abstract: | We present constraints on both the kinetic temperature of the intergalactic
medium (IGM) at z=8.4, and on models for heating the IGM at high-redshift with
X-ray emission from the first collapsed objects. These constraints are derived
using a semi-analytic method to explore the new measurements of the 21 cm power
spectrum from the Donald C. Backer Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of
Reionization (PAPER), which were presented in a companion paper, Ali et al.
(2015). Twenty-one cm power spectra with amplitudes of hundreds of mK^2 can be
generically produced if the kinetic temperature of the IGM is significantly
below the temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB); as such, the
new results from PAPER place lower limits on the IGM temperature at z=8.4.
Allowing for the unknown ionization state of the IGM, our measurements find the
IGM temperature to be above ~5 K for neutral fractions between 10% and 85%,
above ~7 K for neutral fractions between 15% and 80%, or above ~10 K for
neutral fractions between 30% and 70%. We also calculate the heating of the IGM
that would be provided by the observed high redshift galaxy population, and
find that for most models, these galaxies are sufficient to bring the IGM
temperature above our lower limits. However, there are significant ranges of
parameter space that could produce a signal ruled out by the PAPER
measurements; models with a steep drop-off in the star formation rate density
at high redshifts or with relatively low values for the X-ray to star formation
rate efficiency of high redshift galaxies are generally disfavored. The PAPER
measurements are consistent with (but do not constrain) a hydrogen spin
temperature above the CMB temperature, a situation which we find to be
generally predicted if galaxies fainter than the current detection limits of
optical/NIR surveys are included in calculations of X-ray heating. | | Source: | arXiv, 1503.0045 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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