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Benedetta Ciardi † rea Ferrara 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,324(3):648-652
We calculate the expected mid-infrared (MIR) molecular hydrogen line emission from the first objects in the Universe. As a result of their low masses, the stellar feedback from massive stars is able to blow away their gas content and collect it into a cooling shell where H2 rapidly forms and IR roto-vibrational (as for example the rest-frame 2.12 μm) lines carry away a large fraction (up to 10 per cent) of the explosion energy. The fluxes from these sources are in the range 10−21 –10−17 erg s−1 cm−2 . The highest number counts are expected in the 20-μm band, where about 105 sources deg−2 are predicted at the limiting flux of 3×10−18 erg s−1 cm−2 . Among the planned observational facilities, we find that the best detection perspectives are offered by the Next Generation Space Telescope ( NGST ), which should be able to reveal about 200 first objects in one hour observation time at its limiting flux in the above band. Therefore, mid-IR instruments appear to represent perfect tools to trace star formation and stellar feedback in the high ( z ≳5) redshift Universe. 相似文献
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Geraint J. A. Harker Saleem Zaroubi Rajat M. Thomas Vibor Jeli Panagiotis Labropoulos Garrelt Mellema Ilian T. Iliev Gianni Bernardi Michiel A. Brentjens A. G. de Bruyn Benedetta Ciardi Leon V. E. Koopmans V. N. Pandey reas H. Pawlik Joop Schaye Sarod Yatawatta 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,393(4):1449-1458
Detecting redshifted 21-cm emission from neutral hydrogen in the early Universe promises to give direct constraints on the epoch of reionization (EoR). It will, though, be very challenging to extract the cosmological signal (CS) from foregrounds and noise which are orders of magnitude larger. Fortunately, the signal has some characteristics which differentiate it from the foregrounds and noise, and we suggest that using the correct statistics may tease out signatures of reionization. We generate mock data cubes simulating the output of the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) EoR experiment. These cubes combine realistic models for Galactic and extragalactic foregrounds and the noise with three different simulations of the CS. We fit out the foregrounds, which are smooth in the frequency direction, to produce residual images in each frequency band. We denoise these images and study the skewness of the one-point distribution in the images as a function of frequency. We find that, under sufficiently optimistic assumptions, we can recover the main features of the redshift evolution of the skewness in the 21-cm signal. We argue that some of these features – such as a dip at the onset of reionization, followed by a rise towards its later stages – may be generic, and give us a promising route to a statistical detection of reionization. 相似文献
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Garrelt Mellema Léon V. E. Koopmans Filipe A. Abdalla Gianni Bernardi Benedetta Ciardi Soobash Daiboo A. G. de Bruyn Kanan K. Datta Heino Falcke Andrea Ferrara Ilian T. Iliev Fabio Iocco Vibor Jelić Hannes Jensen Ronniy Joseph Panos Labroupoulos Avery Meiksin Andrei Mesinger André R. Offringa V. N. Pandey Jonathan R. Pritchard Mario G. Santos Dominik J. Schwarz Benoit Semelin Harish Vedantham Sarod Yatawatta Saleem Zaroubi 《Experimental Astronomy》2013,36(1-2):235-318
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have a low frequency component (SKA-low) which has as one of its main science goals the study of the redshifted 21 cm line from the earliest phases of star and galaxy formation in the Universe. This 21 cm signal provides a new and unique window both on the time of the formation of the first stars and accreting black holes and the subsequent period of substantial ionization of the intergalactic medium. The signal will teach us fundamental new things about the earliest phases of structure formation, cosmology and even has the potential to lead to the discovery of new physical phenomena. Here we present a white paper with an overview of the science questions that SKA-low can address, how we plan to tackle these questions and what this implies for the basic design of the telescope. 相似文献
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Rajat M. Thomas Saleem Zaroubi Benedetta Ciardi reas H. Pawlik Panagiotis Labropoulos Vibor Jeli Gianni Bernardi Michiel A. Brentjens A. G. de Bruyn Geraint J. A. Harker Leon V. E. Koopmans Garrelt Mellema V. N. Pandey Joop Schaye Sarod Yatawatta 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,393(1):32-48
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Geraint Harker Saleem Zaroubi Gianni Bernardi Michiel A. Brentjens A. G. de Bruyn Benedetta Ciardi Vibor Jeli Leon V. E. Koopmans Panagiotis Labropoulos Garrelt Mellema ré Offringa V. N. Pandey Joop Schaye Rajat M. Thomas Sarod Yatawatta 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,397(2):1138-1152
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Ilian T. Iliev Benedetta Ciardi Marcelo A. Alvarez Antonella Maselli rea Ferrara Nickolay Y. Gnedin Garrelt Mellema Taishi Nakamoto Michael L. Norman Alexei O. Razoumov Erik-Jan Rijkhorst Jelle Ritzerveld Paul R. Shapiro Hajime Susa Masayuki Umemura Daniel J. Whalen 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,371(3):1057-1086
Radiative transfer (RT) simulations are now at the forefront of numerical astrophysics. They are becoming crucial for an increasing number of astrophysical and cosmological problems; at the same time their computational cost has come within reach of currently available computational power. Further progress is retarded by the considerable number of different algorithms (including various flavours of ray tracing and moment schemes) developed, which makes the selection of the most suitable technique for a given problem a non-trivial task. Assessing the validity ranges, accuracy and performances of these schemes is the main aim of this paper, for which we have compared 11 independent RT codes on five test problems: (0) basic physics; (1) isothermal H ii region expansion; (2) H ii region expansion with evolving temperature; (3) I-front trapping and shadowing by a dense clump and (4) multiple sources in a cosmological density field. The outputs of these tests have been compared and differences analysed. The agreement between the various codes is satisfactory although not perfect. The main source of discrepancy appears to reside in the multifrequency treatment approach, resulting in different thicknesses of the ionized-neutral transition regions and the temperature structure. The present results and tests represent the most complete benchmark available for the development of new codes and improvement of existing ones. To further this aim all test inputs and outputs are made publicly available in digital form. 相似文献
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