FAST drift scan survey for HI intensity mapping: simulation on hunting HI filament with pairwise stacking

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Autores principales: Liu, Diyang, Li, Yichao, Tramonte, Denis, Deng, Furen, Wang, Jiaxin, Wang, Yougang, Zhang, Xin, Chen, Xuelei
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author Liu, Diyang
Li, Yichao
Tramonte, Denis
Deng, Furen
Wang, Jiaxin
Wang, Yougang
Zhang, Xin
Chen, Xuelei
author_facet Liu, Diyang
Li, Yichao
Tramonte, Denis
Deng, Furen
Wang, Jiaxin
Wang, Yougang
Zhang, Xin
Chen, Xuelei
contents Filaments stand as pivotal structures within the cosmic web. However, direct detection of the cold gas content of the filaments remains challenging due to its inherent low brightness temperature. With the TNG hydrodynamical simulations, we demonstrate the effectiveness of isolating faint filament HI signal from the FAST HI intensity mapping (IM) survey through pairwise stacking of galaxies, which yields an average HI filament signal amplitude of $\sim 0.29\ {μ{\rm K}}$ at $z\simeq 0.1$. However, our simulations reveal a non-negligible contribution from HI-rich galaxies within or near the filaments. Particularly, the faint galaxies dominantly contribute to the extra filament HI signal. Our simulation also shows that the measurement uncertainty is produced by both thermal noise and background variation caused by brightness leakage from surrounding random galaxies. Given a fixed total observation time, a wide-field HI IM survey, which includes a large number of galaxy pairs, can simultaneously reduce thermal noise to below the filament signal level and minimize background variation to a negligible level. Through the end-to-end simulation, this work demonstrates the critical role of the galaxy pairwise stacking method in future filament HI detection, outlining a road map for filament HI detection in the next-generation HI IM surveys.
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spellingShingle FAST drift scan survey for HI intensity mapping: simulation on hunting HI filament with pairwise stacking
Liu, Diyang
Li, Yichao
Tramonte, Denis
Deng, Furen
Wang, Jiaxin
Wang, Yougang
Zhang, Xin
Chen, Xuelei
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Filaments stand as pivotal structures within the cosmic web. However, direct detection of the cold gas content of the filaments remains challenging due to its inherent low brightness temperature. With the TNG hydrodynamical simulations, we demonstrate the effectiveness of isolating faint filament HI signal from the FAST HI intensity mapping (IM) survey through pairwise stacking of galaxies, which yields an average HI filament signal amplitude of $\sim 0.29\ {μ{\rm K}}$ at $z\simeq 0.1$. However, our simulations reveal a non-negligible contribution from HI-rich galaxies within or near the filaments. Particularly, the faint galaxies dominantly contribute to the extra filament HI signal. Our simulation also shows that the measurement uncertainty is produced by both thermal noise and background variation caused by brightness leakage from surrounding random galaxies. Given a fixed total observation time, a wide-field HI IM survey, which includes a large number of galaxy pairs, can simultaneously reduce thermal noise to below the filament signal level and minimize background variation to a negligible level. Through the end-to-end simulation, this work demonstrates the critical role of the galaxy pairwise stacking method in future filament HI detection, outlining a road map for filament HI detection in the next-generation HI IM surveys.
title FAST drift scan survey for HI intensity mapping: simulation on hunting HI filament with pairwise stacking
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03988