2026-03-03 ペンシルベニア州立大学（Penn State）
Section of the Line Intensity Map created by charting the distribution and concentration of excited hydrogen via the Lyman alpha wavelength in the universe 10 billion years ago. The stars mark where HETDEX has found galaxies. The inset simulates the structure present in this map once it is zoomed in on and background noise is removed from the data. Credit: Maja Lujan Niemeyer/Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics/HETDEX, Chris Byrohl/Stanford University/HETDEX. All Rights Reserved.
＜関連情報＞
- https://www.psu.edu/news/eberly-college-science/story/astronomers-reveal-hidden-structures-young-universe
- https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae3a98
HETDEXにおけるLy α強度マッピング：銀河-Ly α強度クロスパワースペクトル Lyα Intensity Mapping in HETDEX: Galaxy-Lyα Intensity Cross-power Spectrum
Maja Lujan Niemeyer, Eiichiro Komatsu, José Luis Bernal, Chris Byrohl, Robin Ciardullo, Olivia Curtis, Daniel J. Farrow, Steven L. Finkelstein, Karl Gebhardt, Caryl Gronwall,…
The Astrophysical Journal Published: 2026 March 3
DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/ae3a98
Abstract
We present a measurement of the Lyα intensity mapping power spectrum from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). We measure the cross-power spectrum of the Lyα intensity and Lyα-emitting galaxies (LAEs) in a redshift range of 1.9 ≤ z ≤ 3.5. We calculate the intensity from HETDEX spectra that do not contain any detected LAEs above a signal-to-noise ratio of 5.5. To produce a power spectrum model and its covariance matrix, we simulate the data using lognormal mocks for the LAE catalog and Lyα intensity in redshift space. The simulations include the HETDEX sensitivity, selection function, and mask. The measurements yield the product of the LAE bias, the intensity bias, the mean intensity of undetected sources, and the ratio of the actual and fiducial redshift-space distortion parameters, bg bI I F¯ RSD/F¯ fidRSD = (6.7 ± 3.1), (11.7 ± 1.4), and (8.3 ± 1.5) × 10−22 erg s −1 cm−2 arcsec−2 Å−1 in three redshift bins centered at z¯ = 2.1, 2.6, and 3.2, respectively. The results are reasonably consistent with cosmological hydrodynamical simulations that include Lyα radiative transfer. They are, however, significantly smaller than previous results from cross-correlations of quasars with Lyα intensity. These results demonstrate the statistical power of HETDEX for Lyα intensity mapping and pave the way for a more comprehensive analysis. They will also be useful for constraining models of Lyα emission from galaxies used in modern cosmological simulations of galaxy formation and evolution.
