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C IV吸收体沿视线对伽马射线暴的入射

On the Incidence of C IV Absorbers Along the Sightlines to Gamma-Ray Bursts

Nicolas Tejos, Sebastian Lopez, Jason X. Prochaska, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky

摘要:

本文报道了在高红移伽马射线暴(GRB)中z=1.5-3.5的强(W_r > 0.15 A)C Ⅳ吸收体的统计。与最近对z < 2的强Mg II吸收系统的观测结果相比,我们发现,每单位红移dN/dz的C IV吸收体数目与以前用类星体(QSO)作为背景源的观测结果没有明显的偏差。计算结果表明,C Ⅳ对γ暴的数密度分别为dN/dz(z~1.5)= 2.2 + 2.8/-1.4,dN/dz(z~2.5)= 2.3 + 1.8/-1.1,dN/dz(z~3.5)= 1.1 + 2.6/-0.9。这些数字与以前使用类星体光谱的C IV调查是一致的。对整个数据集进行分组,我们设置了95%的c.l.沿GRB视线的CIV吸收体过量的上限,其入射角为沿类星体视线观测到的入射角的两倍。此外,GRB和类星体样本的等效宽度分布与来自同一母体的一致。虽然镁II和C IV吸收剂沿伽玛射线暴视线的结果似乎相互矛盾,我们注意到,调查几乎是不相交的:C IV调查对应于更高的红移和更高度电离的气体比镁II调查。然而,对较大统计样本的分析可能会限制这些金属所在星系的性质(例如质量,尘埃含量)和/或引起金属线吸收的气体的相干长度。

英文摘要:

We report on the statistics of strong (W_r > 0.15 A) C IV absorbers at z=1.5-3.5 toward high-redshift gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In contrast with a recent survey for strong Mg II absorption systems at z < 2, we find that the number of C IV absorbers per unit redshift dN/dz does not show a significant deviation from previous surveys using quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) as background sources. We find that the number density of C IV toward GRBs is dN/dz(z~1.5)= 2.2 +2.8/-1.4, dN/dz(z~2.5)= 2.3 +1.8/-1.1 and dN/dz(z~3.5)= 1.1 +2.6/-0.9. These numbers are consistent with previous C IV surveys using QSO spectra. Binning the entire dataset, we set a 95% c.l. upper limit to the excess of C IV absorbers along GRB sightlines at twice the incidence observed along QSO sightlines. Furthermore, the distribution of equivalent widths of the GRB and QSO samples are consistent with being drawn from the same parent population. Although the results for Mg II and C IV absorbers along GRB sightlines appear to contradict one another, we note that the surveys are nearly disjoint: the C IV survey corresponds to higher redshift and more highly ionized gas than the Mg II survey. Nevertheless, analysis on larger statistical samples may constrain properties of the galaxies hosting these metals (e.g. mass, dust content) and/or the coherence-length of the gas giving rise to the metal-line absorption.

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