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高红移镓的电离辐射逃逸

Escape of Ionizing Radiation from High Redshift Galaxies

Nickolay Y. Gnedin, Andrey V. Kravtsov, Hsiao-Wen Chen

摘要:

我们使用高分辨率自适应网格细化N体+流体动力学模拟从高红移星系的电离辐射逃逸。我们的模拟包括时间依赖性和空间分辨的三维电离辐射传输,包括灰尘吸收的影响。对于总质量M > 10^11兆太阳、恒星形成率SFR约为1-5兆太阳/年的星系,我们发现在整个研究的红移区间(3<z<9)内,角平均逃逸分数为0.01-0.03。此外,我们发现,逃逸分数的变化超过一个数量级沿不同的视线在个别星系,从最大的值附近的星系极沿银盘最小。逃逸分数在较低的质量和SFR急剧下降。我们发现,逃逸分数的低值是由于一小部分年轻恒星位于HI盘边缘外。我们比较了我们预测的电离光子逃逸分数与以前的结果,并找到一个一般协议与其他模拟结果和可用的直接检测测量z ~ 3。我们还比较了我们的模拟与一种新的方法来估计逃逸分数从观察到的中性氢柱密度沿视线的长期伽马射线暴线的星系。使用这种方法,我们发现的GRB宿主星系的逃逸分数为2- 3%,与我们的理论预测一致。[删节]

英文摘要:

We model the escape of ionizing radiation from high-redshift galaxies using high-resolution Adaptive Mesh Refinement N-body + hydrodynamics simulations. Our simulations include time-dependent and spatially-resolved transfer of ionizing radiation in three dimensions, including effects of dust absorption. For galaxies of total mass M > 10^11 Msun and star formation rates SFR ~ 1-5 Msun/yr, we find angular averaged escape fractions of 0.01-0.03 over the entire redshift interval studied (3<z<9). In addition, we find that the escape fraction varies by more than an order of magnitude along different lines-of-sight within individual galaxies, from the largest values near galactic poles to the smallest along the galactic disk. The escape fraction declines steeply at lower masses and SFR. We show that the low values of escape fractions are due to a small fraction of young stars located just outside the edge of HI disk. We compare our predicted escape fraction of ionizing photons with previous results, and find a general agreement with both other simulation results and available direct detection measurements at z ~ 3. We also compare our simulations with a novel method to estimate the escape fraction in galaxies from the observed distribution of neutral hydrogen column densities along the lines of sights to long duration gamma-ray bursts. Using this method we find escape fractions of the GRB host galaxies of 2-3%, consistent with our theoretical predictions. [abridged]

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