Satpathy, S;
An, Z;
Croft, RAC;
Di Matteo, T;
Tenneti, A;
Feng, Y;
Heitmann, K;
(2020)
On the possibility of baryon acoustic oscillation measurements at redshift z > 7.6 with the Roman space telescope.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
, 498
(4)
pp. 4955-4970.
10.1093/mnras/staa2732.
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Abstract
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST), with its field of view and high sensitivity will make surveys of cosmological large-scale structure possible at high redshifts. We investigate the possibility of detecting baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) at redshifts z > 7.6 for use as a standard ruler. We use data from the hydrodynamic simulation BLUETIDES in conjunction with the gigaparsec-scale Outer Rim simulation and a model for patchy reionization to create mock RST High Latitude Survey grism data for Lyman α emission line selected galaxies at redshifts z = 7.4 to z = 10, covering 2280 deg2. We measure the monopoles of galaxies in the mock catalogues and fit the BAO features. We find that for a line flux of L=7×10−17 ergs−1cm−2, the 5σ detection limit for the current design, the BAO feature is partially detectable (measured in three out of four survey quadrants analysed independently). The resulting root mean square error on the angular diameter distance to z = 7.7 is 7.9 per cent. If we improve the detection sensitivity by a factor of two (i.e. L=3.5×10−17 ergs−1cm−2), the distance error reduces to 1.4 per cent. We caution that many more factors are yet to be modelled, including dust obscuration, the damping wing due to the intergalactic medium, and low redshift interlopers. If these issues do not strongly affect the results, or different observational techniques (such as use of multiple lines) can mitigate them, RST, or similar instruments may be able to constrain the angular diameter distance to the high redshift universe.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | On the possibility of baryon acoustic oscillation measurements at redshift z > 7.6 with the Roman space telescope |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/staa2732 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2732 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | galaxies: statistics, dark energy, large-scale structure of Universe |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10114147 |
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