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高红移星系风的吸收特征

Absorption features of high redshift galactic winds

A. P. M. Fangano, A. Ferrara, P. Richter

摘要:

高红移星系的环境的特点是由风驱动的外流气体和引力下降流。为了研究这种星系IGM的相互作用,我们已经产生了合成的光学吸收线光谱穿透周围的体积在$z \approx 3$从SPH模拟输出选择一个莱曼破裂星系的星爆模拟,包括一个详细的治疗风的机械反馈。几个可观察到的物种(HI,CIII,CIV,SiII,SiIII,SiIV,OVI,OVII和OVIII)的分布已通过后处理模拟输出得到。热风物质的特征是存在高电离物质,如OVI、OVII和OVIII(后两种物质只能在X射线波段观察到);较冷的($T<10^{5.5}$ K)下落气流可以通过SiII、SiIII和CIII光吸收以及围绕较冷气体团的OVI的组合存在来识别。然而,合成光谱的线轮廓和像素光学深度分析表明,星系际细丝中的风吹星系嵌入产生的吸收特征,密切模仿风环境。我们的结论是,可能很难清楚地确定风吹星系和它们的复杂的气体环境在高红移光学类星体吸收线光谱的基础上观察到的离子吸收模式。

英文摘要:

The environment of high-redshift galaxies is characterized by both wind-driven outflowing gas and gravitationally infalling streams. To investigate such galaxy-IGM interplay we have generated synthetic optical absorption line spectra piercing the volume surrounding a starbursting analog of a Lyman Break Galaxy selected in a $z \approx 3$ output from a SPH simulation, including a detailed treatment of mechanical feedback from winds. Distributions for several observable species (HI, CIII, CIV, SiII, SiIII, SiIV, OVI, OVII, and OVIII) have been derived by post-processing the simulation outputs. The hot wind material is characterized by the presence of high-ionization species such as OVI, OVII, and OVIII (the latter two observable only in X-ray bands); the colder ($T<10^{5.5}$ K) infalling streams can be instead identified by the combined presence of SiII, SiIII, and CIII optical absorption together with OVI that surrounds the cooler gas clumps. However, both line profile and Pixel Optical Depth analysis of the synthetic spectra show that the intergalactic filament in which the wind-blowing galaxy is embedded produces absorption signatures that closely mimic those of the wind environment. We conclude that may be difficult to clearly identify wind-blowing galaxies and their complex gaseous environment at high redshift in optical QSO absorption-line spectra based solely on the observed ion absorption patterns.

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