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z ~ 4.5处Lyman α发射体的聚类

Clustering of Lyman alpha emitters at z ~ 4.5

Katarina Kovač, Rachel S. Somerville, James E. Rhoads, Sangeeta Malhotra, JunXian Wang

摘要:

本文报道了从大面积Lyman Alpha(LALA)巡天中选出的151个z ~ 4.5的Lyman alpha发射星系的成团性质。我们的星表覆盖了36' x 36'的区域,用五个窄带滤光片观察。我们假设角关联函数w(θ)可以用斜率β = 0.8的幂律A_w = θ ^(-β)很好地表示,我们发现A_w = 6.73 +/- 1.80。然后,我们通过Limber变换从A_w计算实空间两点关联函数xi(r)=(r/r_0)^(-1.8)的关联长度r_0,假设宇宙是平坦的,λ主导。忽略污染,我们得到r_0 = 3.20 +/-0.42Mpc/h。考虑到随机分布的污染源可能有28%的污染,我们发现r_0 = 4.61 +/- 0.6 Mpc/h。我们将这些结果与冷暗物质模型中在此红移处对暗物质晕成团的预期进行了比较,发现如果这些天体存在于最小质量为10^11太阳质量/小时的1-2倍的晕中,则可以再现测量到的成团强度。我们估计的相关长度意味着b ~ 3.7的偏差,类似于z ~ 3.8-4.9处的莱曼破裂星系(LBG)。然而,莱曼α发射体是一个因素的约2-16稀有比LBG具有类似的偏置值和隐含的主机晕质量。因此,一个合理的方案似乎是莱曼α发射体占据与LBG大致相同质量的宿主晕,但以6- 50%的相对较低的占空比发光。

英文摘要:

We present the clustering properties of 151 Lyman alpha emitting galaxies at z ~ 4.5 selected from the Large Area Lyman Alpha (LALA) survey. Our catalog covers an area of 36' x 36' observed with five narrowband filters. We assume that the angular correlation function w(theta) is well represented by a power law A_w = Theta^(-beta) with slope beta = 0.8, and we find A_w = 6.73 +/- 1.80. We then calculate the correlation length r_0 of the real-space two-point correlation function xi(r) = (r/r_0)^(-1.8) from A_w through the Limber transformation, assuming a flat, Lambda-dominated universe. Neglecting contamination, we find r_0 = 3.20 +/- 0.42 Mpc/h. Taking into account a possible 28% contamination by randomly distributed sources, we find r_0 = 4.61 +/- 0.6 Mpc/h. We compare these results with the expectations for the clustering of dark matter halos at this redshift in a Cold Dark Matter model, and find that the measured clustering strength can be reproduced if these objects reside in halos with a minimum mass of 1-2 times 10^11 Solar masses/h. Our estimated correlation length implies a bias of b ~ 3.7, similar to that of Lyman-break galaxies (LBG) at z ~ 3.8-4.9. However, Lyman alpha emitters are a factor of ~ 2-16 rarer than LBGs with a similar bias value and implied host halo mass. Therefore, one plausible scenario seems to be that Lyman alpha emitters occupy host halos of roughly the same mass as LBGs, but shine with a relatively low duty cycle of 6-50%.

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