Scattering of Lyα Photons through the Reionizing Intergalactic Medium: I. Spectral Energy Distribution
arXiv:2202.06277 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac69e4
Abstract
During reionization, a fraction of galactic Ly emission is scattered in the intergalactic medium (IGM) and appears as a diffuse light extending megaparsecs from the source. We investigate how to probe the properties of the early galaxies and their surrounding IGM using this scattered light. We create a Monte Carlo algorithm to track individual photons and reproduce several test cases from previous literature. Then, we run our code on the simulated IGM of the CoDaII simulation. We find that the scattered light can leave an observable imprint on the emergent spectrum if collected over several square arcminutes. Scattering can redden the emission by increasing the path lengths of photons, but it can also make the photons bluer by upscattering them according to the peculiar motion of the scatterer. The photons emitted on the far blue side of the resonance appear more extended in both frequency and space compared to those emitted near the resonance. This provides a discriminating feature for the blueward emission, which cannot be constrained from the unscattered light coming directly from the source. The ionization state of the IGM also affects the scattered light spectrum. When the source is in a small HII region, the emission goes through more scatterings in the surrounding HI region regardless of the initial frequency and ends up more redshifted and spatially extended. This can result in a weakening of the scattered light toward high during reionization. Our results provide a framework for interpreting the scattered light to be measured by high- integral-field-unit surveys.
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