21 cm cosmology = The history of hydrogen gas
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21 CM COSMOLOGY
THE GLOBAL SIGNAL: EARTH-BASED CONSTRAINTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR
LUNAR OBSERVATIONS
Judd D. Bowman (Caltech)Alan E. E. Rogers (MIT/Haystack)
July 22, 2009
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Image: Scientific American 2006Model: Pritchard & Loeb 2008
100 10 z [redshift]
50
0
-50
-100
T b [m
K]
21 cm global brightness temperature
5001005010 [MHz]
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All-sky radio spectrum (100-200 MHz)
All-sky spectrum
21 cm global signal
RFI
Instrument bandpassTotal spectrum components:• Diffuse Galactic (200K to >1000K)
- Synchrotron (99%)- Free-free (1%)
• Sun (variable)• Extragalactic sources (~50K)• CMB (2.7K)• Galactic RRLs (< 1 K)• 21 cm (10 mK)
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Orbcom LEO satellite constellation
US FM/TV coverage
Terrestrial Radio Frequency Interference (RFI)
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Site Selection
(< 1 mK)
Antenna beam pattern: CasA (1400 Jy) ~50 K
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Measurement requirements
Need to measure/model non-21 cm sky components and instrument response to 1 part in 100,0000
Not possible! Solution:If: 1) Assume foregrounds introduce a nearly power-law spectrum.
2) Characterize instrument response accurately for everything but the antenna/environment
Then: Can fit a simple model for sky, instrument, and 21 cm signal to data.
Trade-offs: Reduces overall information return—no chance of direct measurement of signal, only model constraints.
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EDGES: Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of Reionization Signature
An ultra-high dynamic range comparison-switched RF spectrometer
Chart: AEER
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antenna“The trailer” (CSIRO) – digitizer
antennaADCLNA
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Measured spectrum
Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory (MRO)
Boolardy Station, Western Australia
Jan 25 – Feb 14, 2009
10 days, ~10 sky hours
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19 mK rms – thermally limited
Green = 100 kHzBlack = 2 MHz
Instrument performance: residuals
Jan/Feb 2009 Bowman et al. 2008
75 mK rms – systematic limited
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Question: When was reionization, how long did it last?
68%
99%
21 cm model
z = 13 z = 6
T21
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Forecasted instrument performance
Current
integrate to expected systematic limit
Integrate +improve bandpass
fastest plausible reionization
z = 13z = 6 z = 25
NOT reionization…
absorption
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From the moon?
• Reduce RFI: Terrestrial RFI environment may ultimately prove to be the limiting factor
• Improve calibration: Use moon as blackbody calibration source to calibrate the antenna
– Orbital payload, spinning spacecraft– Minimize degeneracy between signal and nuisance model– No/reduced environmental complications
• Dual-purpose with lunar RFI survey instrument
• Achieving long integrations may be a problem?– Best times avoid Earth, Sun, and Galactic center = Sep-Dec, new moon
phases, spacecraft on farside
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Summary
• Current: – 19 mK rms in measured spectrum– 11th-order polynomial required to fit unknown sky and antenna params– 21 cm step constrained to <90 mK between 7<z<10– 21 cm derivative <40 mK / MHz between 7<z<10 (w/ caveats)
• Aug-Dec 2009: 3 months, unattended deployment in Australia– Goal: cross “reionization barrier” to get <30 mk constraint on 21 cm step
• Lunar orbit instrument should be considered if performance of earth-based observations saturates
– Advantages: minimal RFI, new calibration options?, dual-purpose
* This scientific work uses data obtained from the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. We acknowledge the Wajarri Yamatji people as the traditional owners of the Observatory site.