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Title: TARDIS. I. A Constrained Reconstruction Approach to Modeling the z ~ 2.5 Cosmic Web Probed by Lyα Forest Tomography

Abstract

Recent Lyα forest tomography measurements of the intergalactic medium (IGM) have revealed a wealth of cosmic structures at high redshift (z ~ 2.5). In this work, we present the Tomographic Absorption Reconstruction and Density Inference Scheme (TARDIS), a new chronocosmographic analysis tool for understanding the formation and evolution of these observed structures. Here, we use maximum likelihood techniques with a fast nonlinear gravitational model to reconstruct the initial density field of the observed regions. We find that TARDIS allows accurate reconstruction of smaller-scale structures than standard Wiener-filtering techniques. Applying this technique to mock Lyα forest data sets that simulate ongoing and future surveys such as CLAMATO, Subaru PFS, or the ELTs, we are able to infer the underlying matter density field at observed redshift and classify the cosmic web structures. We find good agreement with the underlying truth in both the characteristic eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the pseudo-deformation tensor, with the eigenvalues inferred from 30 m class telescopes correlated at r = 0.95 relative to the truth. As an output of this method, we are able to further evolve the inferred structures to late time (z = 0) and also track the trajectories of coeval z = 2.5 galaxies tomore » their z = 0 cosmic web environments.« less

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4];  [5]
  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  4. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  5. Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
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Research Org.:
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1593662
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1604717
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0017860; AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
The Astrophysical Journal (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal (Online); Journal Volume: 887; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; cosmology: observations; galaxies: high-redshift; intergalactic medium; quasars: absorption lines; galaxies: halos; techniques: spectroscopic - methods: numerical

Citation Formats

Horowitz, Benjamin, Lee, Khee-Gan, White, Martin, Krolewski, Alex, and Ata, Metin. TARDIS. I. A Constrained Reconstruction Approach to Modeling the z ~ 2.5 Cosmic Web Probed by Lyα Forest Tomography. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab4d4c.
Horowitz, Benjamin, Lee, Khee-Gan, White, Martin, Krolewski, Alex, & Ata, Metin. TARDIS. I. A Constrained Reconstruction Approach to Modeling the z ~ 2.5 Cosmic Web Probed by Lyα Forest Tomography. United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4d4c
Horowitz, Benjamin, Lee, Khee-Gan, White, Martin, Krolewski, Alex, and Ata, Metin. Wed . "TARDIS. I. A Constrained Reconstruction Approach to Modeling the z ~ 2.5 Cosmic Web Probed by Lyα Forest Tomography". United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4d4c. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1593662.
@article{osti_1593662,
title = {TARDIS. I. A Constrained Reconstruction Approach to Modeling the z ~ 2.5 Cosmic Web Probed by Lyα Forest Tomography},
author = {Horowitz, Benjamin and Lee, Khee-Gan and White, Martin and Krolewski, Alex and Ata, Metin},
abstractNote = {Recent Lyα forest tomography measurements of the intergalactic medium (IGM) have revealed a wealth of cosmic structures at high redshift (z ~ 2.5). In this work, we present the Tomographic Absorption Reconstruction and Density Inference Scheme (TARDIS), a new chronocosmographic analysis tool for understanding the formation and evolution of these observed structures. Here, we use maximum likelihood techniques with a fast nonlinear gravitational model to reconstruct the initial density field of the observed regions. We find that TARDIS allows accurate reconstruction of smaller-scale structures than standard Wiener-filtering techniques. Applying this technique to mock Lyα forest data sets that simulate ongoing and future surveys such as CLAMATO, Subaru PFS, or the ELTs, we are able to infer the underlying matter density field at observed redshift and classify the cosmic web structures. We find good agreement with the underlying truth in both the characteristic eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the pseudo-deformation tensor, with the eigenvalues inferred from 30 m class telescopes correlated at r = 0.95 relative to the truth. As an output of this method, we are able to further evolve the inferred structures to late time (z = 0) and also track the trajectories of coeval z = 2.5 galaxies to their z = 0 cosmic web environments.},
doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/ab4d4c},
journal = {The Astrophysical Journal (Online)},
number = 1,
volume = 887,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 11 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Wed Dec 11 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}

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