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Recovering the H II...
Recovering the H II region size statistics from 21-cm tomography
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Kakiichi, Koki (författare)
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Majumdar, Suman (författare)
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- Mellema, Garrelt (författare)
- Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för astronomi,Oskar Klein-centrum för kosmopartikelfysik (OKC)
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Ciardi, Benedetta (författare)
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Dixon, Keri L. (författare)
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Iliev, Ilian T. (författare)
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Jelic, Vibor (författare)
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Koopmans, Leon V. E. (författare)
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Zaroubi, Saleem (författare)
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Busch, Philipp (författare)
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- 2017-06-22
- 2017
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0035-8711 .- 1365-2966. ; 471:2, s. 1936-1954
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Abstract
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- We introduce a novel technique, called 'granulometry', to characterize and recover the mean size and the size distribution of HII regions from 21-cm tomography. The technique is easy to implement, but places the previously not very well-defined concept of morphology on a firm mathematical foundation. The size distribution of the cold spots in 21-cm tomography can be used as a direct tracer of the underlying probability distribution of HII region sizes. We explore the capability of the method using large-scale reionization simulations and mock observational data cubes while considering capabilities of SquareKilometreArray 1 (SKA1) low and a future extension to SKA2. We show that the technique allows the recovery of the HII region size distribution with a moderate signal-to-noise ratio from wide-field imaging (SNR less than or similar to 3), for which the statistical uncertainty is sample variance dominated. We address the observational requirements on the angular resolution, the field of view, and the thermal noise limit for a successful measurement. To achieve a full scientific return from 21-cm tomography and to exploit a synergy with 21-cm power spectra, we suggest an observing strategy using widefield imaging (several tens of square degrees) by an interferometric mosaicking/multibeam observation with additional intermediate baselines (similar to 2-4 km) in an SKA phase 2.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik -- Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences -- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- radiative transfer
- methods: data analysis
- techniques: image processing
- intergalactic medium
- dark ages
- reionization
- first stars
- cosmology: theory
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Dixon, Keri L.
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Iliev, Ilian T.
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Jelic, Vibor
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Zaroubi, Saleem
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Busch, Philipp
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