On the size of H II regions around high-redshift quasars
On the size of H II regions around high-redshift quasars
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关于高红移类星体周围 H II 区域的大小
DOI:
10.1111/j.1745-3933.2007.00283.x
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发表时间:
2007
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通讯作者:
Choudhury T. R.
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作者:
Maselli A;Gallerani S;Ferrara A;Choudhury T. R.
We investigate the possibility of constraining the ionization state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) close to the end of reionization (z≈ 6) by measuring the size of Hiiregions in high-zquasar spectra. We perform a combination of multiphase smoothed particle hydrodynamics and three-dimensional radiative transfer simulations to predict reliably the properties of typical high-zquasar Hiiregions, embedded in a partly neutral IGM (xHi= 0.1). In this work we assume a fixed configuration for the quasar lifetime and luminosity, i.e.tQ= 107yr and . From the analysis of mock spectra along lines of sight through the simulated QSO environment, we find that the Hiiregion size derived from quasar spectra is on average 30 per cent smaller than the physical one. Additional maximum likelihood analysis shows that this offset induces an overestimate of the neutral hydrogen fraction,xHi, by a factor of ≈3. By applying the same statistical method to a sample of observed QSOs, our study favours a mostly ionized (xHi< 0.06) universe atz= 6.1.
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09682.x
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2005
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4.8
作者:
A. Maselli;A. F. Mpa;G. Sissa;Trieste
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Trieste
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2000
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作者:
P. Madau;M. Rees
通讯作者:
M. Rees