In:
The Astrophysical Journal, American Astronomical Society, Vol. 941, No. 2 ( 2022-12-01), p. 167-
Abstract:
The primordial He abundance Y P is a powerful probe of cosmology. Currently, Y P is best determined by observations of metal-poor galaxies, while there are only a few known local extremely metal-poor ( 〈 0.1 Z ⊙ ) galaxies (EMPGs) having reliable He/H measurements with He i λ 10830 near-infrared (NIR) emission. Here we present deep Subaru NIR spectroscopy for 10 EMPGs. Combining the existing optical data, He/H values of 5 out of the 10 EMPGs are reliably derived by the Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm. Adding the existing 3 EMPGs and 51 moderately metal-poor (0.1–0.4 Z ⊙ ) galaxies with reliable He/H estimates, we obtain Y P = 0.2370 − 0.0034 + 0.0033 by linear regression in the (He/H) − (O/H) plane, where we increase the number of EMPGs from three to eight anchoring He/H of the most metal-poor gas in galaxies. Although our Y P measurement and previous measurements are consistent, our result is slightly (∼1 σ ) smaller due to our EMPGs. Including the existing primordial deuterium D P measurement, we constrain the effective number of neutrino species N eff and the baryon-to-photon ratio η showing ≳1–2 σ tensions with the Standard Model and Planck Collaboration et al. (2020). Motivated by the tensions, we allow the degeneracy parameter of the electron neutrino ξ e , as well as N eff and η , to vary. We obtain ξ e = 0.05 − 0.02 + 0.03 , N eff = 3.11 − 0.31 + 0.34 , and η × 10 10 = 6.08 − 0.06 + 0.06 from the Y P and D P measurements with a prior of η taken from Planck Collaboration et al. Our constraints suggest a lepton asymmetry and allow for a high value of N eff within the 1 σ level, which could mitigate the Hubble tension.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0004-637X
,
1538-4357
DOI:
10.3847/1538-4357/ac9ea1
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
American Astronomical Society
Publication Date:
2022
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2207648-7
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1473835-1
SSG:
16,12
