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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 ...
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  
Intergalactic medium
키워드  
Machine learning
키워드  
UV background
기타저자  
University of California, Santa Barbara Physics
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-05B.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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