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The large-scale structure of the universe in one dimension Item Type text; Dissertation-Reproduction (electronic) Authors Zhan, Hu Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 05/10/2021 21:38:43 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290096 THE LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE IN ONE DIMENSION by Hu Zhan Copyright © Hu Zhan 2004 A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA 2 0 0 4 UMI Number: 3132278 Copyright 2004 by Zhan, Hu All rights reserved. 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Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 2 The University of Arizona ® Graduate College As members of the Final Examination Committee, we certify that we have read the dissertation prepared by Hu Zhan entitled The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe in One Dimension and recommend that it be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy David B Date ¥// ^ V Ronaeel Date aniel Eisenstei Date Li-Zhi Fang Date 0 Fulvio Melia Date Michael Shupe Date Final approval and acceptance of this dissertation is contingent upon the candidate's submission of the final copies of the dissertation to the Graduate College. I hereby certify that I have read this dissertation prepared er my direction and recommend that it be accepted as fulfilling the disseetSti^n requjfe Dissertation Directors; Li-Zhi Fang / David Burstein / Daniel Eisenstein Date 3 STATEMENT BY AUTHOR This dissertation has been submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for an advanced degree at The University of Arizona and is deposited in the University Library to be made available to borrowers under rules of the Library. Brief quotations from this dissertation are allowable without special permission, pro vided that accurate acknowledgment of source is made. Requests for permission for extended quotation from or reproduction of this manuscript in whole or in part may be granted by the copyright holder. SIGNED: 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I thank my advisors David Burstein, Daniel Eisenstein, and Li-Zhi Fang for their supervision and guidance over the course of my study. I also thank my mentors and collaborators, Bruce Barrett, Romeel Dave, Xiaohui Fan, Priya Jamkhedkar, Fulvio Meha, Petr Navratil, Andreas Nogga, Michael Shupe, James Vary, Rogier Windhorst, and Ann Zabludoff. Without them, I would probably have spent a lot more time practicing trial and error. I appreciate the financial support from Bruce in the Spring and Summer of 2003, during which ideas in this dissertation germinated. I have benefited from grants from the Theoretical Astrophysics Program and registration fee waivers from the Physics Depart ment. I am grateful to my wife, Yue, for her enduring support. DEDICATION This dissertation is dedicated to my parents, Hua'an and Lanzhen, and my wife, Yue. 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES 8 LIST OF TABLES 11 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 12 ABSTRACT 13 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 14 CHAPTER 2: ONE-DIMENSIONAL POWER SPECTRUM 17 2.1 Three-Dimensional Power Spectrum 17 2.2 One-Dimensional Power Spectrum 19 2.3 Aliasing 21 CHAPTER 3: COVARIANCE OF THE ONE-DIMENSIONAL POWER SPECTRUM: GAUSSIAN RANDOM FIELDS 23 3.1 Covariance of the One-Dimensional Power Spectrum 23 3.2 Line-of-Sight Length 25 CHAPTER 4: COVARIANCE OF THE ONE-DIMENSIONAL POWER SPECTRUM: THE COSMIC DENSITY FIELD 27 4.1 Simulations 27 4.2 Pair-Wise Covariance 29 4.3 Covariance 30 CHAPTER 5: COVARIANCE OF THE ONE-DIMENSIONAL POWER SPECTRUM: THE LYa FOREST 39 5.1 Simulated Lya Forests 39 5.1.1 Hydrodynamical Simulations with Photoionization 39 5.1.2 Pseudo-Hydro Technique 47 5.1.3 Comparison 56 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS - Continued 5.2 Tuning the Lya Forest 61 5.2.1 Equation of State 61 5.2.2 Mean Flux 65 5.3 Mass Statistics vs. Flux Statistics 68 5.3.1 Power Spectrum 68 5.3.2 Covariance 69 5.4 Cosmology 77 CHAPTER 6: INVERTING THE LYa FOREST 80 6.1 Correlation between the Mean Density and Width of Saturated Lya Absorptions 81 6.1.1 Simulations 81 6.1.2 The Correlation 82 6.1.3 A Simple Model 85 6.2 Inversion with A Gaussian Density Profile 87 6.3 Mapping the Power Spectra 91 CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSIONS 96 REFERENCES 98 8 LIST OF FIGURES 4.1 Normalized pair-wise covariance matrices C(A:3,s) in grey scale .... 29 4.2 Diagonal elements of the normalized pair-wise covariance matrices .... 30 4.3 Estimated one-dimensional mass power spectra and their variance .... 31 4.4 Normalized covariances of one-dimensional mass power spectra averaged over 2000 groups, each of which consists of 64 lines of sight 33 4.5 Normalized covariances of one-dimensional mass power spectra averaged over 256 groups, each of which consists of 1024 lines of sight 34 4.6 Effect of non-Gaussianity and resolution on the covariance of the one- dimensional mass power spectrum 36 4.7 Effect of non-Gaussianity and resolution on the variance of the one-dimensional mass power spectrum 37 4.8 Effect of the length of Hnes of sight 38 5.1 Fourier transform of the assignment function 41 5.2 Thermal broadening of Lya absorptions at z = 0 45 5.3 Thermal broadening of Lya absorptions at z = 3 46 5.4 Correlation between baryon and dark matter densities in the simulation . 48 5.5 Line-of-sight baryon densities and dark matter densities at z = 0 50 5.6 Line-of-sight baryon densities and dark matter densities at z = 3 51 5.7 Three-dimensional and one-dimensional mass power spectra of baryons and dark matter in real space and redshift space 52 5.8 Temperature-density relation of baryons in the simulation 55 5.9 Transmitted Lya flux based on baryon and dark matter distributions at z = 0 57 5.10 Transmitted Lya flux based on baryon and dark matter distributions at 2= 3.... 58 5.11 Flux power spectra of Lya forests generated from baryon and dark matter distributions at z = 0 and z = 3 59 5.12 Effect of thermal broadening on flux power spectra 60 9 LIST OF FIGURES - Continued 5.13 Lya Forests generated from baryon and dark matter distributions with different equations of state at z = 0 and 1 62 5.14 Lya Forests generated from baryon and dark matter distributions with different equations of state at z= 2 and 3 ....... 63 5.15 Flux power spectra of Lya forests generated from dark matter densities using different equations of state 64 5.16 Simulated Lya forests with different mean fluxes 66 5.17 Flux power spectra of simulated Lya forests with different mean fluxes . 67 5.18 Flux power spectra of simulated Lya forests and one-dimensional mass power spectra of the underlying density fields at z = 0 and 1 69 5.19 Flux power spectra of simulated Lya forests and one-dimensional mass power spectra of the underlying density fields at z = 2 and 3 70 5.20 Normalized covariances of one-dimensional baryon and dark matter power spectra at z — 0 71 5.21 Normalized covariances of flux power spectra based on baryon and dark matter distributions at z = Q 72 5.22 Normalized covariances of one-dimensional baryon and dark matter power spectra at 2; =3 ........... 74 5.23 Normalized covariances of flux power spectra based on baryon and dark matter distributions at z = 3 75 5.24 Normalized covariances of observed flux power spectra at z — 3 76 5.25 Mass power spectra of baryons and dark matter and flux power spectra of simulated Lya forests for different cosmological models at 2: = 0 78 5.26 Mass power spectra of baryons and dark matter and flux power spectra of simulated Lya forests for different cosmological models at z = 3 79 6.1 Simulated Lya forests and line-of-sight densities from the LCDM model at z = 3 83 6.2 Correlation between the mean density pa and width w of saturated regions in the Lya forest 84 10 LIST OF FIGURES - Continued 6.3 Best-fittings of the pa.-w relation for four cosmological models from z — 'i to 4.5 86 6.4 One-dimensional mass power spectra of original densities and inverted den sities in redshift space for the LCDM model 88 6.5 One-dimensional mass power spectra of original densities and inverted den sities in redshift space for OCDM, SCDM, and TCDM models 89 6.6 Recovery of the one-dimensional mass power spectrum with uncertainties in the Pa,--w relation 90 6.7 One-point distribution function of inverted densities and that of the origi nal densities 91 6.8 Three-dimensional mass power spectra of the LCDM model at ^ = 3 .