Mapping quasar light echoes in 3D with Ly alpha forest tomography
The intense radiation emitted by luminous quasars dramatically alters the ionization state of their surrounding IGM. This so-called proximity effect extends out to tens of Mpc, and manifests as large coherent regions of enhanced Lyα (Lyα) forest transmission in absorption spectra of background sight...
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2019 September 13
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The astrophysical journal
Year: 2019, Jahrgang: 882, Heft: 2 |
| ISSN: | 1538-4357 |
| DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/ab2fcb |
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| Verfasserangaben: | Tobias M. Schmidt, Joseph F. Hennawi, Khee-Gan Lee, Zarija Lukić, Jose Oñorbe, and Martin White |
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| 520 | |a The intense radiation emitted by luminous quasars dramatically alters the ionization state of their surrounding IGM. This so-called proximity effect extends out to tens of Mpc, and manifests as large coherent regions of enhanced Lyα (Lyα) forest transmission in absorption spectra of background sightlines. Here, we present a novel method based on Lyα forest tomography, which is capable of mapping these quasar “light echoes” in three dimensions. Using a dense grid (10-100) of faint () background galaxies as absorption probes, one can measure the ionization state of the IGM in the vicinity of a foreground quasar, yielding detailed information about the quasar’s radiative history and emission geometry. An end-to-end analysis—combining cosmological hydrodynamical simulations post-processed with a quasar emission model, realistic estimates of galaxy number densities, and instrument + telescope throughput—is conducted to explore the feasibility of detecting quasar light echoes. We present a new, fully Bayesian statistical method that allows one to reconstruct quasar light echoes from thousands of individual low-S/N transmission measurements. Armed with this tool, we undertake an exhaustive parameter study and show that light echoes can be convincingly detected for luminous (M 1450 < −27.5 mag, corresponding to m 1450 < 18.4 mag at ) quasars at redshifts 3 < z QSO 5) is sufficient, requiring three-hour integrations using existing instruments on 8 m class telescopes. | ||
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