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Deciphering the Thermal and Ionization State of the Intergalactic Medium Over the Past 10 Billion Years
Deciphering the Thermal and Ionization State of the Intergalactic Medium Over the Past 10 Billion Years
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152039
- ISBN
- 9798342718196
- DDC
- 523
- 저자명
- Hu, Teng.
- 서명/저자
- Deciphering the Thermal and Ionization State of the Intergalactic Medium Over the Past 10 Billion Years
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 198 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-05, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Hennawi, Joseph.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약One of the great successes of modern cosmology is the percent-level concordance between theory and observations of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at z ≳ 1.7. Yet, the Lyα forest at z 1.7, which can only be studied via HST UV spectra, has pointed out a puzzling discrepancy, i.e., the Doppler b-parameters of these absorption lines are, on average, ∼ 10 km/s wider than those in any existing hydrodynamic simulation. This discrepancy implies that the low-z IGM might be substantially hotter than expected, contradicting one of the fundamental predictions in current cosmology that the IGM should cool down owing to the Hubble expansion after He II reionization (z 2.5). Moreover, the IGM thermal state degenerates with its ionization state characterized by the UV background (UVB) photoionization rate, ΓHI, which dictates the abundance of the Lyα absorbers, dN/dz. Such a degeneracy requires any reliable measurement to adopt a careful statistical inference procedure. To overcome these difficulties, in this thesis, a novel machine-learning-based inference framework is employed to jointly measure the thermal and ionization state of the IGM, using the 2D distribution of b-parameter and H I column density and dN/dz. This method effectively resolves the degeneracies between the thermal and ionization state of the IGM and achieves high precision, even with limited-sized data. I apply this method to 94 archival HST COS and STIS quasar spectra distributed across the seven redshift bins, yielding a comprehensive evolutionary history of the IGM thermal and ionization state at z 1.5. The results suggest that the IGM may be significantly hotter than previously expected at low-z and is potentially isothermal, with IGM temperature at mean density, T0 ∼ 30, 000K and power-law index of the temperature-density, γ ∼ 1.0 at z = 0.1. The inferred thermal history suggests that this unexpected IGM temperature possibly emerges around z ∼ 1. Additionally, while the ΓHI measurements align with the theoretical model at z ∼ 1, the values measured at z 0.5 are substantially lower than predicted, posing challenges to low-z UV background synthesis models.
- 일반주제명
- Astrophysics
- 일반주제명
- Astronomy
- 일반주제명
- Physics
- 일반주제명
- Computational physics
- 키워드
- Absorption lines
- 키워드
- Cosmology
- 키워드
- Machine learning
- 키워드
- UV background
- 기타저자
- University of California, Santa Barbara Physics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-05B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aOne of the great successes of modern cosmology is the percent-level concordance between theory and observations of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at z ≳ 1.7. Yet, the Lyα forest at z 1.7, which can only be studied via HST UV spectra, has pointed out a puzzling discrepancy, i.e., the Doppler b-parameters of these absorption lines are, on average, ∼ 10 km/s wider than those in any existing hydrodynamic simulation. This discrepancy implies that the low-z IGM might be substantially hotter than expected, contradicting one of the fundamental predictions in current cosmology that the IGM should cool down owing to the Hubble expansion after He II reionization (z 2.5). Moreover, the IGM thermal state degenerates with its ionization state characterized by the UV background (UVB) photoionization rate, ΓHI, which dictates the abundance of the Lyα absorbers, dN/dz. Such a degeneracy requires any reliable measurement to adopt a careful statistical inference procedure. To overcome these difficulties, in this thesis, a novel machine-learning-based inference framework is employed to jointly measure the thermal and ionization state of the IGM, using the 2D distribution of b-parameter and H I column density and dN/dz. This method effectively resolves the degeneracies between the thermal and ionization state of the IGM and achieves high precision, even with limited-sized data. I apply this method to 94 archival HST COS and STIS quasar spectra distributed across the seven redshift bins, yielding a comprehensive evolutionary history of the IGM thermal and ionization state at z 1.5. The results suggest that the IGM may be significantly hotter than previously expected at low-z and is potentially isothermal, with IGM temperature at mean density, T0 ∼ 30, 000K and power-law index of the temperature-density, γ ∼ 1.0 at z = 0.1. The inferred thermal history suggests that this unexpected IGM temperature possibly emerges around z ∼ 1. Additionally, while the ΓHI measurements align with the theoretical model at z ∼ 1, the values measured at z 0.5 are substantially lower than predicted, posing challenges to low-z UV background synthesis models.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0035.
■650 4▼aAstrophysics
■650 4▼aAstronomy
■650 4▼aPhysics
■650 4▼aComputational physics
■653 ▼aAbsorption lines
■653 ▼aCosmology
■653 ▼aIntergalactic medium
■653 ▼aMachine learning
■653 ▼aUV background
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■71020▼aUniversity of California, Santa Barbara▼bPhysics.
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■792 ▼a2024
■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17162668▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
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