34 research outputs found
Ly at Cosmic Dawn with a Simulated Roman Grism Deep Field
The slitless grism on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will enable deep
near-infrared spectroscopy over a wide field of view. We demonstrate Roman's
capability to detect Ly galaxies at using a multi-position-angle
(PA) observational strategy. We simulate Roman grism data using a realistic
foreground scene from the COSMOS field. We also input fake Ly galaxies
spanning redshift z=7.5-10.5 and a line-flux range of interest. We show how a
novel data cube search technique -- CUBGRISM -- originally developed for GALEX
can be applied to Roman grism data to produce a Ly flux-limited sample
without the need for continuum detections. We investigate the impact of
altering the number of independent PAs and exposure time. A deep Roman grism
survey with 25 PAs and a total exposure time of hrs can achieve Ly
line depths comparable to the deepest narrow-band surveys
(erg s). Assuming a null result,
where the opacity of the intergalactic medium (IGM) remains unchanged from
, this level of sensitivity will detect deg Ly
emitters from . A decline from this expected number density is the
signature of an increasing neutral hydrogen fraction and the onset of
reionization. Our simulations indicate that a deep Roman grism survey has the
ability to measure the timing and magnitude of this decline, allowing us to
infer the ionization state of the IGM and helping us to distinguish between
models of reionization.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, Submitted to Ap
Probing Patchy Reionization with the Void Probability Function of Lyman- Emitters
We probe what constraints for the global ionized hydrogen fraction the Void
Probability Function (VPF) clustering can give for the Lyman-Alpha Galaxies in
the Epoch of Reionization (LAGER) narrowband survey as a function of area.
Neutral hydrogen acts like a fog for Lyman-alpha emission, and measuring the
drop in the luminosity function of Lyman- emitters (LAEs) has been used
to constrain the ionization fraction in narrowband surveys. However, the
clustering of LAEs is independent from the luminosity function's inherent
evolution, and can offer additional constraints for reionization under
different models. The VPF measures how likely a given circle is to be empty. It
is a volume-averaged clustering statistic that traces the behavior of higher
order correlations, and its simplicity offers helpful frameworks for planning
surveys.
Using the \citet{Jensen2014} simulations of LAEs within various amount of
ionized intergalactic medium, we predict the behavior of the VPF in one
(301x150.5x30 Mpc), four (5.44 Mpc), or eight (1.1 Mpc) fields of LAGER imaging. We examine the VPF at 5 and 13
arcminutes, corresponding to the minimum scale implied by the LAE density and
the separation of the 2D VPF from random, and the maximum scale from the
8-field 15.5 deg LAGER area. We find that even a single DECam field of
LAGER (2-3 deg) could discriminate between mostly neutral vs. ionized.
Additionally, we find four fields allows the distinction between 30, 50, and 95
percent ionized; and that eight fields could even distinguish between 30, 50,
73, and 95 percent ionized.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure
VLA 1.4 GHz Catalogs of the Abell 370 and Abell 2390 Cluster Fields
We present 1.4 GHz catalogs for the cluster fields Abell 370 and Abell 2390
observed with the Very Large Array. These are two of the deepest radio images
of cluster fields ever taken. The Abell 370 image covers an area of 40'x40'
with a synthesized beam of ~1.7" and a noise level of ~5.7 uJy near field
center. The Abell 2390 image covers an area of 34'x34' with a synthesized beam
of ~1.4" and a noise level of ~5.6 uJy near field center. We catalog 200
redshifts for the Abell 370 field. We construct differential number counts for
the central regions (radius < 16') of both clusters. We find that the faint
(S_1.4GHz < 3 mJy) counts of Abell 370 are roughly consistent with the highest
blank field number counts, while the faint number counts of Abell 2390 are
roughly consistent with the lowest blank field number counts. Our analyses
indicate that the number counts are primarily from field radio galaxies. We
suggest that the disagreement of our counts can be largely attributed to cosmic
variance.Comment: 13 pages, accepted for publication in ApJ