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阻尼Lyman α吸收体系中HI 21-cm线强度、MgII等效宽度与金属丰度的关系

Relationships between the HI 21-cm line strength, MgII equivalent width and metallicity in damped Lyman-alpha absorption systems

S. J. Curran, P. Tzanavaris, Y. M. Pihlstroem, J. K. Webb

摘要:

我们提出了一个调查的结果,21厘米吸收在四个以前从未搜索阻尼莱曼α吸收系统(DLAs)与韦斯特博克综合射电望远镜。我们将我们的结果添加到其他最近的研究中,以解决有关通过21 cm吸收在DLAs中检测冷气体的重要问题:虽然,由于与螺旋星系确定的DLA,有一个混合的自旋温度/覆盖因子比在低红移,两个最近的高红移端点证实,在整个搜索的红移范围内(直到z = 3.39),该比率一般不会上升。也就是说,如果这些星系的覆盖因子比螺旋星系的覆盖因子小2倍以上,那么这两类星系的自旋温度就不需要有显著差异。此外,虽然很难分离的自旋温度和覆盖因子的相对贡献,新的结果证实,21厘米的检测往往发生在低角直径的距离,其中一个给定的吸收截面的覆盖范围是最大化。最后,我们还发现了一个明显的21厘米线强度-镁II等效宽度的相关性,这似乎是由于耦合的组件,每个物种的痕迹之间的速度结构。也就是说,在21厘米吸收中看到的气体可能与在光学吸收中看到的气体相同。结合已知的等效宽度-金属丰度关系,这可能表现为自旋温度-金属丰度的反相关,这是非进化的起源。

英文摘要:

We present the results of a survey for 21-cm absorption in four never previously searched damped Lyman-alpha absorption systems (DLAs) with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. We add our results to other recent studies in order to address the important issues regarding the detection of cold gas, through 21-cm absorption, in DLAs: Although, due to the DLAs identified with spiral galaxies, there is a mix of spin temperature/covering factor ratios at low redshift, two recent high redshift end points confirm that this ratio does not generally rise over the whole redshift range searched (up to z = 3.39). That is, if the covering factors of many of these galaxies were a factor of >2 smaller than for the spirals, then no significant difference in the spin temperatures between these two classes would be required. Furthermore, although it is difficult to separate the relative contributions of the spin temperature and covering factor, the new results confirm that 21-cm detections tend to occur at low angular diameter distances, where the coverage of a given absorption cross section is maximised. Finally, we also find an apparent 21-cm line strength--MgII equivalent width correlation, which appears to be due to a coupling of the velocity structure between the components that each species traces. That is, the gas seen in 21-cm absorption could be the same as that seen in optical absorption. Combined with the known equivalent width--metallicity relation, this may be manifest as a spin temperature--metallicity anti-correlation, which is non-evolutionary in origin.

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