Ly alpha EMISSION FROM COSMIC STRUCTURE. I. FLUORESCENCE

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dc.contributor.authorKollmeier, JA
dc.contributor.authorZheng, Z
dc.contributor.authorDave, R
dc.contributor.authorGould, A
dc.contributor.authorKatz, N
dc.contributor.authorMiralda-Escude, J
dc.contributor.authorWeinberg, DH
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts - Amherst
dc.date2023-09-22T23:44:57.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T08:27:32Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T08:27:32Z
dc.date.issued2010-01
dc.description<p>This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at <a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/708/2/1048/">http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/708/2/1048/</a></p>
dc.description.abstractWe present predictions for the fluorescent Lyα emission signature arising from photoionized, optically thick structures in smoothed particle hydrodynamic cosmological simulations of a ΛCDM universe using a Monte Carlo Lyα radiative transfer code. We calculate the expected Lyα image and two-dimensional spectra for gas exposed to a uniform ultraviolet ionizing background as well as gas exposed additionally to the photoionizing radiation from a local quasar, after correcting for the self-shielding of hydrogen. As a test of our numerical methods and for application to current observations, we examine simplified analytic structures that are uniformly or anisotropically illuminated. We compare these results with recent observations. We discuss future observing campaigns on large telescopes and realistic strategies for detecting fluorescence owing to the ambient metagalactic ionization and in regions close to bright quasars. While it will take hundreds of hours on the current generation of telescopes to detect fluorescence caused by the ultraviolet background alone, our calculations suggest that on the order of 10 sources of quasar-induced fluorescent Lyα emission should be detectable after a 10 hr exposure in a 10 arcmin2 field around a bright quasar. These observations will help probe the physical conditions in the densest regions of the intergalactic medium as well as the temporal light curves and isotropy of quasar radiation.
dc.description.pages1048-1075
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/0004-637X/708/2/1048
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/2979
dc.relation.ispartofASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1298&amp;context=astro_faculty_pubs&amp;unstamped=1
dc.source.issue2
dc.source.issue708
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectcosmology: theory
dc.subjectgalaxies: formation
dc.subjecthydrodynamics
dc.subjectintergalactic medium
dc.subjectradiative transfer
dc.subjectscattering
dc.subjectAstrophysics and Astronomy
dc.titleLy alpha EMISSION FROM COSMIC STRUCTURE. I. FLUORESCENCE
dc.typearticle
digcom.contributor.authorKollmeier, JA
digcom.contributor.authorZheng, Z
digcom.contributor.authorDave, R
digcom.contributor.authorGould, A
digcom.contributor.authorisAuthorOfPublication|email:nsk@astro.umass.edu|institution:University of Massachusetts - Amherst|Katz, N
digcom.contributor.authorMiralda-Escude, J
digcom.contributor.authorWeinberg, DH
digcom.identifierastro_faculty_pubs/299
digcom.identifier.contextkey1682985
digcom.identifier.submissionpathastro_faculty_pubs/299
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