Prospects for detecting CII emission during the Epoch of Reionization

2014/10/17 by Silva, Marta B., santos, Mário G., Cooray, Asantha +1 · 4 citations
#Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1410.4808

Abstract

We produce simulations of emission of the atomic CII line in large sky fields in order to determine the current prospects for mapping this line during the high redshift Epoch of Reionization. We estimate the CII line intensity, redshift evolution and spatial fluctuations using observational relations between CII emission and the SFR in a galaxy for the frequency range of 200 GHz to 300 GHz. We obtained a frequency averaged intensity of CII emission of \rm I_{\rm CII}=(4 ± 2)×10² Jy \rm sr^-1 in the redshift range z ∼ 5.3 - 8.5. Observations of CII emission in this frequency range will suffer contamination from emission lines at lower redshifts, in particular from the CO rotation lines. For the relevant frequency range we estimated the CO contamination (originated in emission from galaxies at z

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