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线辐射源SINFONI MgII计划(SIMPLE):发现QSO视线附近的星暴

The SINFONI MgII Program for Line Emitters (SIMPLE): Discovering starbursts near QSO sight-lines

Nicolas Bouche, Michael T. Murphy, Celine Peroux, Richard Davies, Frank Eisenhauer, Natasha Forster Schreiber, Linda Tacconi

摘要:

低电离跃迁,如星系附近的MgII 2796/2803双重态示踪冷气体。目前还不清楚这种气体是大原盘的星际介质的一部分,还是矮星的一部分,还是超新星驱动的外流中夹带的物质的一部分。基于MgII统计数据的研究,例如堆叠图像和聚类分析,已经调用了恒星爆发驱动的外流,其中MgII吸收剂正在追踪外流的密度和温度较低的气体。外流情景的一个结果是,最强的吸收体应该与恒星爆发有关。我们使用近红外积分场光谱仪SINFONI来测试z~1 MgII吸收体附近是否存在星暴。对于67%(21个中的14个)的静止坐标系等效宽度大于2 AA的吸收体,我们在基于\MgII红移的预测波长的200 km/s内的发射中检测到Ha。由H α推断出的恒星形成速率(SFR)范围在1 ~ 20 Msun/yr之间,也就是说,恒星形成的水平比M82大4倍以上。我们的通量极限(3-sigma)对应于0.5 Msun/yr的SFR。我们发现了SFR和等效宽度之间相关性的证据(置信度>95%),表明星暴现象和吸收中看到的气体之间存在物理联系。在我们可以提取的速度场的情况下,主机星系居住在晕的平均质量<log M_h>=11.2与集群测量的良好协议。

英文摘要:

Low-ionization transitions such as the MgII 2796/2803 doublet trace cold gas in the vicinity of galaxies. It is not clear whether this gas is part of the interstellar medium of large proto-disks, part of dwarfs, or part of entrained material in supernovae-driven outflows. Studies based on MgII statistics, e.g. stacked images and clustering analysis, have invoked starburst-driven outflows where MgII absorbers are tracing the denser and colder gas of the outflow. A consequence of the outflow scenario is that the strongest absorbers ought to be associated with starbursts. We use the near-IR integral field spectrograph SINFONI to test whether starbursts are found around z~1 MgII absorbers. For 67% (14 out of 21) of the absorbers with rest-frame equivalent width larger than 2 AA, we do detect Ha in emission within 200 km/s of the predicted wavelength based on the \MgII redshift. The star-formation rate (SFR) inferred from Halpha ranges from 1 to 20 Msun/yr, i.e. showing a level of star-formation larger than in M82 by a factor of >4 on average. Our flux limit (3-sigma) corresponds to a SFR of 0.5 Msun/yr. We find evidence (at >95% confidence) for a correlation between SFR and equivalent width, indicating a physical connection between starburst phenomena and gas seen in absorption. In the cases where we can extract the velocity field, the host-galaxies reside in halos with mean mass <log M_h>=11.2 in good agreement with clustering measurements.

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