Post on 06-Apr-2018
Donghui Jeong The Pennsylvania State University
18 August 2014, Cosmic Voids in the Next Generation of Galaxy Surveys @ CCAPP, OSU
HETDEX (Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy eXperiment)
HETDEX Science Meeting May 2014
Summary
• There is a lot of overlap between “Telescope”, “VIRUS”, and “DEX” commissioning
• Definitions will matter – We don’t want the HETDEX time allocation to be charged for activities
that would be necessary in any case to commission VIRUS – There are grey areas
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UT Austin Gary Hill (PI)
Karl Gebhardt (PS) Herman Kriel (PM)
John Booth Barbara Castanheira
Taylor Chonis Anita Cochran
Niv Drory Steven Finkelstein
John Good Shardha Jogee David Lambert Hanshin Lee
Phillip McQueen Stephen Odewahn
Dave Perry Chuck Ramiller Richard Savage
Mathew Shethrone Mimi Song Trey Taylor Sarah Tuttle Brian Vattiat
MPE/USM Ralf Bender
Maximilian Fabricius Claus Goessl Ulrich Hopp
Francesco Montesano Ariel Sanchez
Jan Snigula Jochen Weller
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Penn State *Nishant Agarwal
Niel Brandt Robin Ciardullo Henry Gebhardt Garyl Gronwall Donghui Jeong
Yuexing Li Suvrath Mahadevan
Ana Matkovic Larry Ramsey
Donald Schneider Mike Siegel
Jason Wright
TAMU Darren DePoy Lucas Macri
Jennifer Marshall Casey Papovich
Jean-Philippe Rheault Nicholas Suntzeff
Vy Tran Lifan Wang
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AIP Luz Marina Cairos Barreto
Roloef de Jong Isabelle Gavignaud
Roger Haynes Carolina Kehrig Andreas Kelz Volker Muller Martin Roth
Matthias Steinmetz Christian Tapken
Lutz Wisotzki
MPA Chi-Ting Chiang Eiichiro Komatsu Philipp Wullstein
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Other Institutes Lei Hao (SAO)
Carlos Allende Prieto (IAC) Jens Neimeyer (Gottingen)
Wolfram Kollatschny (Gottingen)
Eric Gawiser (Rutgers) Viviana Acquaviva (CUNY)
Povilas Palunas (LCO) Alex Fry (Washington) John Feldmeier (YSU)
Jeremy Murphy (Princeton) Jenny Greene (Princeton)
Guillermo Blanck (Carnegie)
**This list comes from the HETDEX wiki page, which may, unfortunately, miss some of our valuable collaborators/friends.
What is HETDEX?• Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment
(HETDEX) is a galaxy survey with unique properties.
• The first blind spectroscopic large-scale structure survey
• We do not pre-select objects; objects are emission-line selected; huge discovery potential
• The first 10 Gpc3-class survey at high z [1.9<z<3.5] with sufficient number density
• The previous big surveys (2dF, SDSS, WiggleZ, etc) were all done at z<1
HETDEX, at a glance• In many ways, HETDEX is a Texas-style experiment:
• Q. How big is a survey telescope? A. 10m
• Q. Whose telescope is that? A. Ours
• Q. How many spectra do you take per one exposure? A. About 35K spectra – at once
• Q. Are you not wasting lots of fibers? A. Yes we are, but so what? Besides, this is the only way you can find anything truly new!
Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX)
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Use 10-m HET to map the universe using 0.8M Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies
in z=1.9–3.5
Many, MANY, spectra• HETDEX will use the newly-built integral field unit
spectrographs called “VIRUS*” (Hill et al.)
• We will build and put 78 units on the focal plane
• Each unit has 448 fibers
• Each unit feeds two spectrographs
• Therefore, VIRUS will have 35K fibers in the sky at once (Texas size!)
*VIRUS = Visible Integral-field Replicable Unit Spectrograph
IFUs fabricated at AIP Potsdam
Looong fibers! (Each fiber sees 1.5”)
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What do we detect?
• λ=350–550nm with the resolving power of R~700 down to a flux sensitivity of a few x 10–17 erg/cm2/s (continuum AB mag~22) gives us:
• ~0.8M Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies at 1.9<z<3.5
• 1/10 of them would be AGNs
• ~2M [OII] emitting galaxies
• ...and lots of other stuff (like white dwarfs)
One way to impress you
• So far, about ~1000 Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies have been discovered over the last decade
• These are interesting objects – relatively low-mass, low-dust, star-forming galaxies
• We will detect that many Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies within the first 2 hours of the HETDEX survey
Yes, we do detect LAEs!
• We have been using the Mitchell spectrograph on the 2.7-m Harlan Smith telescope over 111 nights, detecting 105 LAEs in 1.9<z<3.8 over 169 arcmin2.
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• Among these, 105 are LAEs; and the majority of the other objects are [OII] emitters at z<0.56.
• We discriminate between them using the Equivalent-Width (EW) cut at the rest-frame 20 angstroms (assuming LAEs).
• LAEs have larger EWs. With imaging data going down to ~25 mag in g or r, this cut eliminates ~99% of [OII] interlopers. We can do science with [OII] too!
What can HETDEX do?• Primary goal: to detect the influence of dark energy on the
expansion rate at z~2 directly, even if it is a cosmological constant
• Use both Baryon Acoustic Oscillation and the full shape and anisotropy (more later)
• Supernova cannot reach z>2: a new territory
• In addition, we can address many other cosmological and astrophysical issues.
Other “Prime” Goals• Is the observable universe really flat?
• We can improve upon the current limit on Ωcurvature by a factor of 10 – to reach Ωcurvature ~ 10–3 level.
• How large is the neutrino mass?
• We can detect the neutrino mass if the total mass is greater than about 0.13 eV (3σ) [currently σΣmν ~ 0.1eV, Beutler+2014]
• The absolute lower limit to the total mass from neutrino experiments is the total mass > 0.05 eV. Not so far away!
Other “Prime” Goals• Is inflation responsible to generate seed fluctuation?
• We can measure primordial non-Gaussianity better than the Planck satellite with ΔfNL = 3.65!
• What is the shape of primordial power spectrum?
• Combining to Planck, HETDEX will measure Δns=0.025!
• By detecting ns at two different scales, we can also measure Δαs=0.05.
“Sub-prime” Goals
• Being the first blind spectroscopic survey, HETDEX is expected to find unexpected objects.
• Also, we expect to have an unbiased catalog of white dwarfs; metal-poor stars; distant clusters of galaxies; etc
Voids in HETDEX LAEs
• Two challenges to detect voids in HETDEX
• Gaps between IFU spectrographs (dictated by pattern)
• ~1 Mpc/h gap for each ~2 Mpc/h
• A hole at the center of size 5 x 7 Mpc2/h2
• Smaller density fluctuations at high redshifts (1.9 < z < 3.5)
• D(z=[1.9~3.5]) ~ 1/[2.3~3.5] x D(z=0) ➔ Need 3 x more significance than local universe
Voids in HETDEX OIIS
• It may be better to consider OII-3727 emitters
• Gaps between IFU spectrographs (dictated by pattern)
• ~0.3 Mpc/h gap for each ~0.6 Mpc/h
• A hole at the center of size 1.5 x 3.5 Mpc2/h2
• Larger number density 2 Million objects over 0.4 Gpc3
• nOII ~ 0.015 [Mpc/h]-3 (c.f. nLAEs ~ 2x10-4 [Mpc/h]-3)
Conclusion
• HETDEX will start the main survey in the next year (Fall 2015)
• HETDEX is the first blind spectroscopic survey with a large (~10 Gpc3) volume
• We expect to detect ~0.8M Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies to map the large-scale structure in an unexplored territory of z=1.9–3.5
• Target: detection of dark energy at 1.9<z<3.5
• also measure the neutrino mass; curvature; primordial power spectrum, non-Gaussianity, and (possibly) detect Cosmic Voids!