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介入金属系统在GRB和QSO视线中的应用:MIBR和Civ问题

Intervening Metal Systems in GRB and QSO sight-lines: The Mgii and Civ Question

Vladimir Sudilovsky, Sandra Savaglio, Paul Vreeswijk, Cedric Ledoux, Alain Smette, Jochen Greiner

摘要:

Prochter等人2006年发现,在伽马射线暴(GRB)余辉光谱中检测到的强介入0.5 <z <2 MgII吸收体的数密度几乎是类星体光谱中的4倍。我们已经使用CIV吸收剂进行了类似的研究。我们的CIV样品共包括20个系统,来自3个高分辨率和高到中等S/N VLT/UVES光谱的3个长持续时间的GRB余辉,覆盖红移区间1.6 <z <3.1。该样品的柱密度分布和数密度与类星体光谱中测量的相同量没有任何统计差异。我们讨论了CIV和MgII吸收剂之间的差异的几种可能性,并得出结论,到目前为止研究的MgII类星体样本中的更高的尘埃消光将给出最简单的解决方案。然而,这种效应仅对强MgII吸收剂重要。不管这种差异的原因是什么,这一结果再次证实了伽马射线暴可以用来探测宇宙的一个以前未知的方面,不一定与伽马射线暴本身有关,为宇宙的宇宙演化提供了另一种基本的研究工具。

英文摘要:

Prochter et al. 2006 recently found that the number density of strong intervening 0.5<z<2 MgII absorbers detected in gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow spectra is nearly 4 times larger than in QSO spectra. We have conducted a similar study using CIV absorbers. Our CIV sample, consisting of a total of 20 systems, is drawn from 3 high resolution and high to moderate S/N VLT/UVES spectra of 3 long-duration GRB afterglows, covering the redshift interval 1.6< z<3.1. The column density distribution and number density of this sample do not show any statistical difference with the same quantities measured in QSO spectra. We discuss several possibilities for the discrepancy between CIV and MgII absorbers and conclude that a higher dust extinction in the MgII QSO samples studied up to now would give the most straightforward solution. However, this effect is only important for the strong MgII absorbers. Regardless of the reasons for this discrepancy, this result confirms once more that GRBs can be used to detect a side of the universe that was unknown before, not necessarily connected with GRBs themselves, providing an alternative and fundamental investigative tool of the cosmic evolution of the universe.

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