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亚DLAs IV的均匀样本:全球金属丰度演化

A Homogeneous Sample of Sub-DLAs IV: Global Metallicity Evolution

Celine Peroux, Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky, Sandro D'Odorico, Tae-Sun Kim, Richard G. McMahon

摘要:

测量高红移星系丰度的一个精确方法,是沿着朝向背景类星体的视线观测吸收体。在这里,我们基于VLT UVES光谱仪的高分辨率观测,给出了13 z>3亚阻尼莱曼-α系统(HI柱密度为19 < log N(HI)< 20.3 cm^-2的类星体吸收体)的丰度测量结果。这些观测结果比以前在z>3时获得的亚DLA的金属丰度信息增加了一倍多。这一新的数据,结合文献中的其他子DLA测量,证实了比经典阻尼莱曼α吸收体更强的金属丰度红移演化。此外,这些观测结果被用来计算的第一次从光电离模型中的子DLAs样本电离的气体的分数。基于这些结果,我们计算出在z~2.5处,亚DLA贡献不超过预期金属量的6%。因此,我们得出结论,即使发现亚DLAs比经典DLAs更富含金属,它们也不足以解决所谓的“金属缺失问题”。

英文摘要:

An accurate method to measure the abundance of high-redshift galaxies consists in the observation of absorbers along the line of sight toward a background quasar. Here, we present abundance measurements of 13 z>3 sub-Damped Lyman-alpha Systems (quasar absorbers with HI column density 19 < log N(HI) < 20.3 cm^-2) based on the high resolution observations with VLT UVES spectrograph. These observations more than double the metallicity information for sub-DLAs previously available at z>3. This new data, combined with other sub-DLA measurements from the literature, confirm the stronger metallicity redshift evolution than for the classical Damped Lyman-alpha absorbers. Besides, these observations are used to compute for the first time the fraction of gas ionised from photo-ionisation modelling in a sample of sub-DLAs. Based on these results, we calculate that sub-DLAs contribute no more than 6% of the expected amount of metals at z~2.5. We therefore conclude that even if sub-DLAs are found to be more metal-rich than classical DLAs, they are insufficient to close the so-called ``missing metals problem''.

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