Signatures of high-redshift galactic outflows in the thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect

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Auteurs principaux: Sun, Guochao, Furlanetto, Steven R., Lidz, Adam
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author Sun, Guochao
Furlanetto, Steven R.
Lidz, Adam
author_facet Sun, Guochao
Furlanetto, Steven R.
Lidz, Adam
contents Anisotropies of the Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) effect serve as a powerful probe of the thermal history of the universe. At high redshift, hot galactic outflows driven by supernovae (SNe) can inject a significant amount of thermal energy into the intergalactic medium, causing a strong $y$-type distortion of the CMB spectrum through inverse Compton scattering. The resulting anisotropies of the $y$-type distortion are sensitive to key physical properties of high-$z$ galaxies pertaining to the launch of energetic SNe-driven outflows, such as the efficiency and the spatio-temporal clustering of star formation. We develop a simple analytic framework to calculate anisotropies of $y$-type distortion associated with SNe-powered outflows of galaxies at $z>6$. We show that galactic outflows are likely the dominant source of thermal energy injection, compared to contributions from reionized bubbles and gravitational heating. We further show that next-generation CMB experiments such as LiteBIRD are likely to detect the contribution to $y$ anisotropies from high-$z$ galactic outflows through the cross-correlation with surveys of Lyman-break galaxies by e.g. the Roman Space Telescope. Our analysis and forecasts demonstrate that thermal SZ anisotropies can be a promising probe of SN feedback and outflows in early star-forming galaxies.
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spellingShingle Signatures of high-redshift galactic outflows in the thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect
Sun, Guochao
Furlanetto, Steven R.
Lidz, Adam
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Anisotropies of the Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) effect serve as a powerful probe of the thermal history of the universe. At high redshift, hot galactic outflows driven by supernovae (SNe) can inject a significant amount of thermal energy into the intergalactic medium, causing a strong $y$-type distortion of the CMB spectrum through inverse Compton scattering. The resulting anisotropies of the $y$-type distortion are sensitive to key physical properties of high-$z$ galaxies pertaining to the launch of energetic SNe-driven outflows, such as the efficiency and the spatio-temporal clustering of star formation. We develop a simple analytic framework to calculate anisotropies of $y$-type distortion associated with SNe-powered outflows of galaxies at $z>6$. We show that galactic outflows are likely the dominant source of thermal energy injection, compared to contributions from reionized bubbles and gravitational heating. We further show that next-generation CMB experiments such as LiteBIRD are likely to detect the contribution to $y$ anisotropies from high-$z$ galactic outflows through the cross-correlation with surveys of Lyman-break galaxies by e.g. the Roman Space Telescope. Our analysis and forecasts demonstrate that thermal SZ anisotropies can be a promising probe of SN feedback and outflows in early star-forming galaxies.
title Signatures of high-redshift galactic outflows in the thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02988