The impact of primordial supersonic flows on early structure formation, reionization and the lowest-mass dwarf galaxies

Abstract

Tseliakhovich & Hirata recently discovered that higher-order corrections to the cosmological linear-perturbation theory lead to supersonic coherent baryonic flows just after recombination (i.e. z~1020), with rms velocities of ~30 km/s relative to the underlying dark-matter distribution, on comoving scales of ~<3 Mpc/h. To study the impact of these coherent flows we performed high-resolution N-body plus SPH simulations in boxes of 5.0 and 0.7 Mpc/h, for bulk-flow velocities of 0 (as reference), 30 and 60 km/s. The simulations follow the evolution of cosmic structures by taking into account detailed, primordial, non-equilibrium gas chemistry (i.e. H, He, H2, HD, HeH, etc.), cooling, star formation, and feedback effects from stellar evolution. We find that these bulk flows suppress star formation in low-mass haloes (i.e. Mvir<~10^8Msun until z~13, lower the abundance of the first objects by ~1%-20%, and, as consequence, delay cosmic star formation history by ~2e7yr. The gas fractions in individual objects can change up to a factor of two at very early times. Coherent bulk flow, therefore, has implications for (i) the star-formation in the lowest-mass haloes (e.g. dSphs), (ii) the start of reionization by suppressing it in some patches of the Universe, and (iii) the heating (i.e. spin temperature) of neutral hydrogen. We speculate that the patchy nature of reionization and heating on several Mpc scales could lead to enhanced differences in the HI spin-temperature, giving rise to stronger variations in the HI brightness temperatures during the late dark ages.

Paulo maiora canamus - Accepted for publication on MNRASL, on 7/12/2010. No relevant changes

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