51 research outputs found
Test for anisotropy in the mean of the CMB temperature fluctuation in spherical harmonic space
The standard models of inflation predict statistically homogeneous and
isotropic primordial fluc- tuations, which should be tested by observations. In
this paper we test the statistical isotropy of the mean of the CMB temperature
fluctuations measured by the WMAP in the spherical harmonic space. A classical
method to test a mean, like the simple student's-t test, is not appropriate for
this purpose because the WMAP data contain anisotropic instrumental noise and
suffer from the effect of the mask for the foreground emissions which breaks
the statistical independence. Here we perform a band-power analysis with
Monte-Carlo simulations in which we take into account the anisotropic noise and
the mask. We find evidence of a non-zero mean at 99.93 % confidence level in a
particular range of multipoles. The evidence against the zero-mean assumption
as a whole is still significant at the 99 % confidence level even if the fact
is taken into account that we have tested multiple ranges.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, and 2 tables, submitted to PRD, comments welcom
Galaxy-dark matter connection of photometric galaxies from the HSC-SSP Survey: Galaxy-galaxy lensing and the halo model
We infer the connection between the stellar mass of galaxies from the Subaru
Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey, and their dark matter halo masses and its
evolution in two bins of redshifts between . We use the
measurements of the weak lensing signal of galaxies using background sources
from the Year 1 shape catalog from the HSC survey. We bin galaxies in stellar
mass with varying thresholds ranging from and use stringent cuts in the selection of source
galaxies to measure the weak lensing signal. We model these measurements of the
weak lensing signal together with the abundance of galaxies in the halo
occupation distribution framework. We obtain constraints on the halo occupation
parameters of central galaxies and , which
correspond to the halo mass at which central galaxies for each threshold sample
reach half occupancy, and its scatter, respectively, along with parameters that
describe the occupation of the satellite galaxies. The measurements of
abundance and weak lensing individually constrain different degeneracy
directions in the and plane, thus breaking the
degeneracy in these parameters. We demonstrate that the weak lensing
measurements are best able to constrain the average central halo masses,
. We compare our measurements to those obtained
using the abundance and clustering of these galaxies as well as the subhalo
abundance matching measurements and demonstrate qualitative agreement. We find
that the galaxy-dark matter connection does not vary significantly between
redshift bins we explore in this study. Uncertainties in the photometric
redshift of the lens galaxies imply that more efforts are required to
understand the true underlying stellar mass-halo mass relation of galaxies and
its evolution over cosmic epoch
Galaxy Manifold: Characterizing and understanding galaxies with two parameters
We report the discovery of a two-dimensional Galaxy Manifold within the
multi-dimensional luminosity space of local galaxies. The multi-dimensional
luminosity space is constructed using 11 bands that span from far ultraviolet
to near-infrared for redshift < 0.1 galaxies observed with GALEX, SDSS, and
UKIDSS. The two latent parameters are sufficient to express 93.2% of the
variance in the galaxy sample, suggesting that this Galaxy Manifold is one of
the most efficient representations of galaxies. The transformation between the
observed luminosities and the manifold parameters as an analytic mapping is
provided. The manifold representation provides accurate (85%) morphological
classifications with a simple linear boundary, and galaxy properties can be
estimated with minimal scatter (0.12 dex and 0.04 dex for star formation rate
and stellar mass, respectively) by calibrating with the two-dimensional
manifold location. Under the assumption that the manifold expresses the
possible parameter space of galaxies, the evolution on the manifold is
considered. We find that constant and exponentially decreasing star formation
histories form almost orthogonal modes of evolution on the manifold. Through
these simple models, we understand that the two modes are closely related to
gas content, which suggests the close relationship of the manifold to gas
accretion. Without assuming a star formation history, a gas-regulated model
reproduces an exponentially declining star formation history with a timescale
of 1.2 Gyrs on the manifold. Lastly, the found manifold suggests a
paradigm where galaxies are characterized by their mass/scale and specific SFR,
which agrees with previous studies of dimensionality reduction.Comment: Submitted to MNRAS. 15 pages and 17 figures. All comments are welcom
Compact [C II] emitters around a C IV absorption complex at redshift 5.7
The physical conditions of the circumgalactic medium are probed by
intervening absorption-line systems in the spectrum of background quasi-stellar
objects out to the epoch of cosmic reionization. A correlation between the
ionization state of the absorbing gas and the nature of the nearby galaxies has
been suggested by the sources detected either in Lyalpha or [C ii] 158 m near
to respectively highly-ionized and neutral absorbers. This is also likely
linked to the global changes in the incidence of absorption systems of
different types and the process of cosmic reionization. Here we report the
detection of two [C ii]-emitting galaxies at redshift that are
associated with a complex high-ionization C iv absorption system. These objects
are part of an overdensity of galaxies and have compact sizes (< 2.4 kpc) and
narrow line widths (FWHM 62--64 km s-1). Hydrodynamic simulations
predict that similar narrow [C ii] emission may arise from the heating of small
( 3 kpc) clumps of cold neutral medium or a compact photodissociation
region. The lack of counterparts in the rest-frame ultraviolet indicates severe
obscuration of the sources that are exciting the [C ii] emission. These results
may suggest a connection between the properties of the [C ii] emission, the
rare overdensity of galaxies and the unusual high ionization state of the gas
in this region.Comment: Published in Nature on 10 May 2023; authors' version; link to the
paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05901-
EIGER I. a large sample of [OIII]-emitting galaxies at and direct evidence for local reionization by galaxies
We present a first sample of 117 [OIII]4960,5008-selected
star-forming galaxies at detected in JWST/NIRCam 3.5m
slitless spectroscopy of a arcmin field centered on the
hyperluminous quasar SDSS J0100+2802, obtained as part of the EIGER
(Emission-line galaxies and Intergalactic Gas in the Epoch of Reionization)
survey. Three prominent galaxy overdensities are observed, one of them at the
redshift of the quasar. Galaxies are found within 200 pkpc and 105 km s
of four known metal absorption-line systems in this redshift range. We focus on
the role of the galaxies in ionizing the surrounding intergalactic medium (IGM)
during the later stages of cosmic reionization and construct the mean
Ly and Ly transmission as a function of distance from the
galaxies. At the lowest redshifts in our study, , the IGM
transmission rises monotonically with distance from the galaxies. This is as
expected when galaxies reside at peaks in the overdensity field of an IGM that
is ionized by more or less uniform ionizing background, and has been seen at
lower redshifts. In contrast, at , the transmission of both
Ly and Ly first increases with distance, but then peaks at a
distance of 5 cMpc before declining. This peak in transmission is qualitatively
similar to that seen (albeit at smaller distances and higher redshifts) in the
THESAN simulations. Finally, in the region where the
additional ionizing radiation from the quasar dominates, the monotonic increase
in transmission with distance is re-established. This result is interpreted to
represent evidence that the transmission of the IGM at towards
J0100+2802 results from the ``local'' ionizing radiation of galaxies that
dominates over the much reduced cosmic background.Comment: 24 pages, 14 figures, submitted to ApJ, comments welcom
EIGER II. first spectroscopic characterisation of the young stars and ionised gas associated with strong H and [OIII] line-emission in galaxies at z=5-7 with JWST
We present emission-line measurements and physical interpretations for a
sample of 117 [OIII] emitting galaxies at , using the first deep
JWST/NIRCam wide field slitless spectroscopic observations. Our 9.7-hour
integration is centered upon the quasar J0100+2802 -- the first of six
fields targeted by the EIGER survey -- and covers microns. We
detect 133 [OIII] doublets, but merge pairs within 10 kpc and 600 km
s, motivated by their small scale clustering excess. We detect H
in 68 and H emission in two galaxies. The galaxies are characterised by
a UV luminosity M ( to ), stellar mass
~ M, H and [OIII] EWs 850
Angstrom (up to 3000 Angstrom), young ages (~100 Myr), a highly excited
interstellar medium ([OIII]/H) and low dust attenuations. These
high EWs are very rare in the local Universe, but we show they are ubiquitous
at based on the measured number densities. The stacked spectrum
reveals H and [OIII] which shows that the galaxies are
typically dust and metal poor (E(B-V)=0.1, 12+log(O/H)=7.4) with a high
electron temperature ( K) and a production efficiency of ionising
photons ( Hz erg). We further show the
existence of a strong mass-metallicity relation. The young highly ionising
stellar populations, moderately low metallicities, low dust attenuations and
high ionisation state in z~6 galaxies conspire to maximise the [OIII] output
from galaxies, yielding an [OIII] luminosity density at z~6 that is
significantly higher than at z~2, despite the order of magnitude decline in
cosmic star formation. Thus, [OIII] emission-line surveys with JWST prove a
highly efficient method to trace the galaxy density in the epoch of
reionization.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ. Main text 22 pages, 20 figures. Main
results in Figs 14 (Xi_ion), 15 (MEx diagram),17 (MZR), 19 ([OIII] luminosity
density
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