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# Microwave background temperature at a redshift of 6.34 from H2O absorption

### Line and continuum parameters

The flux of the H2O(110–101) line was extracted by simultaneous Gaussian becoming of the road and continuum emission (together with a linear time period for the continuum) within the one-dimensional spectrum proven in Fig. 1, which was extracted from the picture dice. The supply is unresolved on the frequency of the H2O(110–101) line, such that the primary uncertainties are because of the slope of the continuum emission and the suitable becoming of different close by strains, specifically, CO(5–4). The uncertainties in these parameters are a part of the quoted uncertainties. We discover a line peak flux of −818 ± 145 μJy at a line full width half most (FWHM) of 507 ± 111 km s−1, centred at a frequency of 75.8948 GHz (±46 km s−1; the calibration uncertainties on the road FWHM and centre frequency are negligible and that on the road peak flux is <10%—that’s, minor in contrast with the measurement uncertainty). Given the remaining frequency of the road of 556.9359877 GHz, this corresponds to a redshift of 6.3383, which is per the systemic redshift of HFLS3 (z = 6.3335 and 6.3427 with uncertainties of ±14 and ±54 km s−1 at Gaussian FWHM of 243 ± 39 and 760 ± 152 km s−1, respectively, for the 2 velocity elements detected within the 158-μm [CII] line)5. For comparability, the H2O(202–111) and H2O(211–202) emission strains in HFLS3 have FWHM of 805 ± 129 and 927 ± 330 km s−1, respectively5—that’s, solely marginally broader than the 110–101 line on the present measurement uncertainties. The continuum flux on the line frequency is 396 ± 15 μJy, similar to 48% ± 9% of the absorption-line flux (the relative flux calibration uncertainty between the road and continuum emission is negligible). We additionally measured the 335.5-GHz continuum flux by two-dimensional becoming to the continuum emission within the visibility aircraft. We discover a flux of 33.9 ± 1.1 mJy, which agrees with earlier lower-resolution observations on the identical wavelength5. The key (minor) axis FWHM diameter of the supply is 0.617 ± 0.074 arcsec (0.37 ± 0.20 arcsec). This yields the bodily supply measurement quoted in the primary textual content on the redshift of HFLS3.

### Brightness temperature distinction

The H2O(110–101) line results in a decrement in continuum photons from the starburst and, as such, is noticed as an absence of continuum emission at its frequency on the place of the starburst. It subsequently seems as adverse flux in a picture the place starburst continuum emission has been subtracted. As well as, (sub)millimetre-wavelength interferometric photographs reveal construction towards a flat sky background outlined by the large-scale CMB floor brightness, which the interferometer doesn’t detect itself resulting from its restricted spatial sampling. Subsequently the fraction of the sign because of the decrement in CMB photons on the place of the starburst not solely seems as adverse flux with out subtracting any additional sign but it surely additionally corresponds to an absence of continuum emission on the line frequency in apply. Because the mere presence of an absorption-line sign stronger than the measured continuum emission implies absorption towards the CMB, this interpretation is just not restricted by uncertainties within the galaxy continuum flux or uncertainties within the absolute flux calibration.

### Different H2O transitions in HFLS3

5 H2O strains have been beforehand detected in direction of HFLS3 (202–111, 211–202, 312–221, 312–303 and three21–312) and two further strains have been tentatively detected (413–404 and 422–413)5. The Jup = 3 transitions are resulting from ortho-H2O and all different transitions are resulting from para-H2O. All of those transitions seem in emission. Given the excessive essential densities of those transitions, our RADEX fashions can not reproduce the power of those strains as the identical time because the noticed ortho-H2O(110–101) absorption power, which means that they emerge from totally different fuel elements. For reference, to breed the power of the H2O(211–202) in Fig. 1 alone with collisional excitation, n(H2) = 2 × 107 cm−3 and Tkin = 200 Ok can be required, however the H2O(110–101) would not seem in absorption towards the CMB if it have been to emerge from the identical fuel element. That is per the image that the H2O absorption is because of a chilly fuel element alongside the road of sight to the nice and cozy fuel that provides rise to the emission strains11. Observations of the para-H2O(111–000) floor state don’t presently exist for HFLS3, however our fashions don’t present this line in absorption in direction of the CMB.

### Origin of the decrease and higher limits on TCMB

Our fashions present that the decrease restrict on TCMB at a given redshift primarily based on the noticed H2O absorption is because of the minimal ‘seed’ stage inhabitants because of the CMB black-body radiation area. To find out a conservative decrease restrict, we’ve got calculated fashions with continuum sizes as much as r108μm = 5 kpc (see Fig. 3b), similar to a +7.5σ deviation from the noticed continuum measurement, and recorded the temperatures at which such weakly constrained fashions flip into absorption. We discover that this ends in a decrease restrict of TCMB > 7–8 Ok, unbiased of the mannequin assumptions. This discovering alone doesn’t clarify the existence of an higher restrict in Fig. 3b. For a given measurement of the mud continuum emission, a rise in TCMB additionally requires a rise in Mmud to nonetheless reproduce the noticed mud spectral power distribution, which ends up in an efficient improve within the mud optical depth at a given wavelength. The results of a rising optical depth is that the grey-body spectrum between 538 and 108 μm more and more resembles a black-body spectrum and, therefore, a lower within the H2O absorption towards the CMB. This impact is chargeable for the higher restrict in allowed TCMB for a given mud continuum measurement and absorption power.

### Uncertainties of TCMB measurements

The uncertainties proven for the literature information in Fig. 4 are adopted from the literature sources with out modification, they usually sometimes characterize the statistical uncertainties from the person measurements or pattern averages. Particular person cluster measurements of the thermal SZ impact could also be affected by mud related to foreground galaxies or the Milky Manner, the galaxy clusters or background galaxies which may be amplified by gravitational lensing, uncertainties within the reconstruction of the Compton-y parameter maps resulting from flux uncertainties, radio emission resulting from energetic galactic nuclei and/or relics, the kinetic and relativistic SZ results, and normal bandpass and calibration uncertainties17. Moreover, uncertainties on the cluster geometry—and subsequently line-of-sight journey distance of the CMB photons via the cluster—and on the temperature of the intra-cluster fuel restrict the precision of particular person SZ measurements. Pattern averages may be affected by systematics within the stacking procedures. Particular person information factors deviate by as much as a minimum of two customary deviations from the pattern, which can point out residual uncertainties past the statistical error bars supplied, such that the error bars proven in Fig. 4 are underestimated. The primary supply of uncertainty for the ultraviolet absorption-line-based measurements are because of the assumption of no collisional excitation, which isn’t taken into consideration within the statistical uncertainties proven in Fig. 4. Makes an attempt to take this impact into consideration seem to counsel considerably bigger uncertainties than indicated by particular person error bars27 (Fig. 4). To increase on earlier estimates21, we’ve got calculated RADEX fashions for typical Tkin, n(H) and column densities discovered from [CI] measurements within the diffuse interstellar medium34, which means that collisional excitation contributes to the expected Tex of the decrease fine-structure transition. Though we present the unique unmodified information, the ultraviolet-based measurements are subsequently topic to uncertainties resulting from model-dependent excitation corrections along with the statistical uncertainties. Moreover, the fine-structure ranges of tracers just like the [CI] strains could be excited by ultraviolet excitation and following cascades. To constrain TCMB primarily based on these measurements, the kinetic temperature, particle density and native ultraviolet radiation area have to be recognized, and are sometimes decided primarily based on tracers aside from the species used to constrain TCMB. Additionally, some measurements are primarily based on spectrally unresolved strains, which limits the precision of kinetic temperature measurements primarily based on thermal broadening21. Owing to those uncertainties, the ultraviolet absorption-line-based measurements are in all probability per the usual ΛCDM worth, however they don’t represent a direct measurement of TCMB with out notable additional assumptions. For reference, the median TCMB/(1 + z) estimate primarily based on the [CI] measurements alone (excluding higher limits) is 3.07 Ok, with a median absolute deviation of 0.09 Ok and an ordinary deviation of 0.31 Ok. Subsequently the present pattern median deviates from the ΛCDM worth by about one customary deviation. A mix of the (uncorrected) measurements primarily based on CO, [CI] and [CII] offers a median worth of two.84 Ok, with a median absolute deviation of 0.15 Ok and an ordinary deviation of 0.25 Ok. This highlights the significance of the corrections mentioned above and within the literature and the worth of measurements with systematic uncertainties that differ from this technique to acquire a extra full image. The primary supply of uncertainty of the H2O-based measurements, past the caveats acknowledged within the line-excitation-modelling part, are the statistical uncertainties on the supply measurement, the dearth of a direct measurement of the absorbing H2O column density, variations within the mud mass absorption coefficient and the filling issue. Given the excessive metallicity recommended by different molecular line detections, the limitation to excessive filling components because of the supply measurement and the constraint on the fuel mass from dynamical mass measurements, the primary supply of uncertainty resides within the supply measurement resulting from restricted spatial decision within the present information. As such, main enhancements ought to be potential by acquiring greater, (sub-)kpc decision (that’s, <0.2”) imaging with the Atacama Massive Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA; for different targets) and deliberate upgrades to NOEMA, and, sooner or later, with the Subsequent Era Very Massive Array (ngVLA). Statistical uncertainties may also be vastly decreased by observing bigger samples of huge star-forming galaxies over the whole redshift vary the place measurements are potential, closing the hole to SZ-based research, that are presently restricted to z < 1. The ensuing enchancment in precision will present the constraints which are needed to verify or problem the evolution of the CMB temperature with redshift predicted by customary cosmological fashions.

### Accessibility of the road sign

The frequency vary presently coated by NOEMA is 70.4–119.3, 127.0–182.9 and 196.1–276.0 GHz (with vastly decreased sensitivity above about 115 and 180 GHz within the first two frequency ranges). ALMA covers the 84–500-GHz vary with gaps at 116–125 and 373–385 GHz, with a future extension all the way down to 65 GHz (with vastly decreased sensitivity under about 67 GHz). The ngVLA is envisioned to cowl the 70–116-GHz vary. Excluding areas of poor atmospheric transparency, the H2O(110–101) line is subsequently observable in these frequency ranges at redshifts of z = 0.1–0.4, 0.5–2.0, 2.1–3.4 and three.8–6.9 in precept, however the detectability of the road in absorption towards the CMB might be restricted to the z ~ 4.5–6.9 vary if the spectral power distribution form of HFLS3 is consultant. At decrease frequencies, the Karl G. Jansky Very Massive Array and, sooner or later, ALMA and the ngVLA additionally present entry to the <52-GHz vary, such that the sign additionally turns into observable at z > 9.7 in precept. In conclusion, the absorption of the ground-state H2O transition towards the CMB recognized right here could possibly be traced from the bottom in direction of star-forming galaxies throughout a lot of the first roughly 1.5 billion years of cosmic historical past.

### Detectability of the road sign for various spectral power distribution shapes

To analyze whether or not the impact is anticipated to be detectable for various galaxy populations, we’ve got utilized our modelling to the z = 3.9 quasar APM 08279+5255, for which the mud spectral power distribution consists of a dominant 220-Ok mud element and a weaker 65-Ok mud element, contributing solely 10–15% to the far-infrared luminosity35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46. The fashions counsel that the road is anticipated to happen in emission and that it will not be anticipated to be detectable in absorption at any redshift out to a minimum of z = 12 in galaxies with comparable mud spectral power distributions. Different far-infrared-luminous, high-redshift, energetic galactic nucleus host galaxies sometimes present a stronger relative contribution of their lower-temperature mud elements, such that the impact might stay detectable in much less excessive instances. For galaxies with decrease mud temperatures than HFLS3, the impact could also be current even at decrease redshifts, however is often anticipated to be weaker typically and to vanish at redshifts the place TCMB approaches their Tmud. For a mud spectral power distribution form resembling the central area of the Milky Manner however in any other case comparable properties, the impact is anticipated to be decreased by greater than two orders of magnitude at its redshift peak, and to turn into just about unobservable on the redshift of HFLS3. Thus, dusty starburst galaxies seem like a number of the finest environments to detect the impact.

### Derivation of equation of state parameters

To find out the adiabatic index, we assume an ordinary Friedmann–Lemaitre–Robertson–Walker cosmology with zero curvature and a matter-radiation fluid that follows the usual adiabatic equation of state quoted in the primary textual content. This could correspond to a redshift scaling TCMB(z) = TCMB(z = 0)*(1 + z)3(γ − 1) within the presence of a darkish power density that doesn’t scale with redshift. The darkish power density is parameterized to scale with an influence legislation (1 + z)m, the place m = 0 corresponds to a cosmological fixed. With customary assumptions, this yields a redshift scaling of TCMB (ref. 15):

$${T}_{CMB}(z)={T}_{CMB}(z=0){(1+z)}^{3(gamma -1)}{left[frac{(m-3{varOmega }_{m,0})+m{(1+z)}^{(m-3)}({varOmega }_{m,0}-1)}{(m-3){varOmega }_{m,0}}right]}^{(gamma -1)}$$

and an efficient darkish power equation of state Pde = weffρde, the place the efficient equation of state parameter weff = (m/3) − 1. This becoming operate is used right here with a canonical worth of Ωm,0 = 0.315 (ref. 4). The uncertainty of Ωm,0 is small in contrast with all different sources of uncertainty and, therefore, is uncared for. All information used within the becoming are supplied in Prolonged Knowledge Desk 1 (refs. 36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46).