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直接观察试验排除了小型MgII吸收体

Direct Observational Test Rules Out Small MgII Absorbers

Andrew Pontzen, Paul Hewett, Robert Carswell, Vivienne Wild

摘要:

最近的观测表明,沿视线到伽马射线暴(GRB)余辉的强干预MgII吸收系统的发生率明显高于类似类星体视线的预期。一个可能的解释是几何效应,因为镁II吸收体只覆盖了类星体的部分连续区域,在这种情况下,镁II吸收体必须比以前的估计小得多。我们调查的生产异常吸收配置文件的部分覆盖,并得出结论,缺乏任何已知的异常配置文件中观察到的系统,而约束,不能自己排除补丁镁吸收剂。在一个单独的测试中,我们寻找类星体连续区和CIII]发射线的MgII等效宽度的分布函数的差异。我们表明,这些异常应该是可观察到的任何情况下,镁吸收剂是非常小的,但他们不存在的数据。我们的结论是,模型调用小MgII云来解释对伽玛射线暴的吸收过剩被排除。

英文摘要:

Recent observations suggest the incidence of strong intervening MgII absorption systems along the line-of-sight to gamma ray burst (GRB) afterglows is significantly higher than expected from analogous quasar sightlines. One possible explanation is a geometric effect, arising because MgII absorbers only partially cover the quasar continuum regions, in which case MgII absorbers must be considerably smaller than previous estimates. We investigate the production of abnormal absorption profiles by partial coverage and conclude that the lack of any known anomalous profiles in observed systems, whilst constraining, cannot on its own rule out patchy MgII absorbers. In a separate test, we look for differences in the distribution function of MgII equivalent widths over quasar continuum regions and CIII] emission lines. We show that these anomalies should be observable in any scenario where MgII absorbers are very small, but they are not present in the data. We conclude that models invoking small MgII cloudlets to explain the excess of absorbers seen towards GRBs are ruled out.

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