The Simulated HI Sky at low redshift

Abstract

Observations of intergalactic neutral hydrogen can provide a wealth of information about structure and galaxy formation, potentially tracing accretion and feedback processes on Mpc scales. Below a column density of NHI ~ 10^19 cm-2, the "edge" or typical observational limit for HI emission from galaxies, simulations predict a cosmic web of extended emission and filamentary structures. We study the distribution of neutral hydrogen and its 21cm emission properties in a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation, to gain more insights into the distribution of HI below NHI ~ 10^19 cm-2. Such Lyman Limit systems are expected to trace out the cosmic web, and are relatively unexplored. Beginning with a 32 h^-1 Mpc simulation, we extract the neutral hydrogen component by determining the neutral fraction, including a post-processed correction for self-shielding based on the thermal pressure. We take into account molecular hydrogen, assuming an average density ratio Omega_H2 / Omega_HI = 0.3 at z = 0. The statistical properties of the HI emission are compared with observations, to assess the reliability of the simulation. The simulated HI distribution robustly describes the full column density range between NHI ~ 10^14 and NHI ~ 10^21 cm-2 and agrees very well with available measurements from observations. Furthermore there is good correspondence in the statistics when looking at the two-point correlation function and the HI mass function. The reconstructed maps are used to simulate observations of existing and future telescopes by adding noise and taking account of the sensitivity of the telescopes. The general agreement in statistical properties of HI suggests that neutral hydrogen as modeled in this hydrodynamic simulation is a fair representation of that in the Universe. (abridged)

20 pages, 17 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A, figures compressed to low resolution; high-resolution version available at: http://www.astro.rug.nl/~popping/simulated_HI_sky.pdf

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