dc.creator | Hu, Teng | es |
dc.creator | Khaire, Vikram | es |
dc.creator | Hennawi, Joseph F. | es |
dc.creator | Oñorbe Bernis, José | es |
dc.creator | Walther, Michael | es |
dc.creator | Lukic, Zarija | es |
dc.creator | Davies, Frederick | es |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-15T13:00:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-05-15T13:00:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hu, T., Khaire, V., Hennawi, J.F., Oñorbe Bernis, J., Walther, M., Lukic, Z. y Davies, F. (2024). The Impact of the WHIM on the IGM Thermal State Determined from the Low-z Lyman α Forest. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527 (4), 11338-11359. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3846. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0035-8711 | es |
dc.identifier.issn | 1365-2966 | es |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/158392 | |
dc.description.abstract | At z ≲ 1, shock heating caused by large-scale velocity flows and possibly violent feedback from galaxy formation, converts a significant fraction of the cool gas (T ∼ 104 K) in the intergalactic medium (IGM) into warm–hot phase (WHIM) with T > 105 K, resulting in a significant deviation from the previously tight power-law IGM temperature–density relationship, T = T0(ρ/ ρ̄)γ-1. This study explores the impact of the WHIM on measurements of the low-z IGM thermal state, [T0, γ], based on the b–NH I distribution of the Ly α forest. Exploiting a machine learning-enabled simulation-based inference method trained on Nyx hydrodynamical simulations, we demonstrate that [T0, γ] can still be reliably measured from the b–NH I distribution at z = 0.1, notwithstanding the substantial WHIM in the IGM. To investigate the effects of different feedback, we apply this inference methodology to mock spectra derived from the IllustrisTNG and Illustris simulations at z = 0.1. The results suggest that the underlying [T0, γ] of both simulations can be recovered with biases as low as | log (T0/K)| ≲ 0.05 dex, | γ | ≲ 0.1, smaller than the precision of a typical measurement. Given the large differences in the volume-weighted WHIM fractions between the three simulations (Illustris 38 per cent, IllustrisTNG 10 per cent, and Nyx 4 per cent), we conclude that the b–NH I distribution is not sensitive to the WHIM under realistic conditions. Finally, we investigate the physical properties of the detectable Ly α absorbers, and discover that although their T and distributions remain mostly unaffected by feedback, they are correlated with the photoionization rate used in the simulation. | es |
dc.description.sponsorship | Office of Science DE-AC02-05CH11231 | es |
dc.description.sponsorship | Ministerio de Ciencia Y Tecnología BEAGAL18/00057, CNS2022-135878 | es |
dc.format | application/pdf | es |
dc.format.extent | 22 p. | es |
dc.language.iso | eng | es |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | es |
dc.relation.ispartof | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527 (4), 11338-11359. | |
dc.rights | Atribución 4.0 Internacional | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | Galaxy: formation | es |
dc.subject | Intergalactic medium | es |
dc.subject | Quasars: absorption lines | es |
dc.title | The Impact of the WHIM on the IGM Thermal State Determined from the Low-z Lyman α Forest | es |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es |
dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | es |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear | es |
dc.relation.projectID | DE-AC02-05CH11231 | es |
dc.relation.projectID | BEAGAL18/00057 | es |
dc.relation.projectID | CNS2022-135878 | es |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3846 | es |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/mnras/stad3846 | es |
dc.journaltitle | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | es |
dc.publication.volumen | 527 | es |
dc.publication.issue | 4 | es |
dc.publication.initialPage | 11338 | es |
dc.publication.endPage | 11359 | es |
dc.contributor.funder | Office of Science. EE.UU. | es |
dc.contributor.funder | Ministerio de Ciencia Y Tecnología (MCYT). España | es |