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星云辐射对高红移星系宽带通量的影响

The impact of nebular emission on the broadband fluxes of high-redshift galaxies

E. Zackrisson, N. Bergvall, E. Leitet

摘要:

从年轻星系或恒星形成星系发出的紫外到近红外波长的光中,有很大一部分来自电离的星际介质,它们以发射线和星云连续体的形式出现。在高红移的情况下,恒星形成率平均比本地宇宙更高,而且恒星星族比本地宇宙更年轻。这两种效应都增强了星云辐射对星系整体光谱的影响。即便如此,高红移星系的宽带光通量和颜色通常是在假设观测到的光直接来自恒星的情况下进行分析的。在这里,我们评估的影响,星云发射的宽带流量在约翰逊/BVRIJHK,斯隆数字巡天griz和斯皮策IRAC/MIPS过滤器作为观测到的红移(z=15)的星系与不同的恒星形成历史的函数。我们发现,星云发射可能占不可忽略的一部分,从高红移星系接收的光。因此,通过使用忽略星云贡献的光谱演化模型推断出的这类天体的年龄和质量可能含有系统误差。我们认为,仔细处理星云的组成部分将是必不可少的解释的休息帧紫外线到红外线的第一个星系形成的属性,就像那些预计将被检测到的詹姆斯韦伯太空望远镜。

英文摘要:

A substantial fraction of the light emitted from young or star-forming galaxies at ultraviolet to near-infrared wavelengths comes from the ionized interstellar medium in the form of emission lines and a nebular continuum. At high redshifts, star formation rates are on average higher and stellar populations younger than in the local Universe. Both of these effects act to boost the impact of nebular emission on the overall spectrum of galaxies. Even so, the broadband fluxes and colours of high-redshift galaxies are routinely analyzed under the assumption that the light observed originates directly from stars. Here, we assess the impact of nebular emission on broadband fluxes in Johnson/Cousins BVRIJHK, Sloan Digital Sky Survey griz and Spitzer IRAC/MIPS filters as a function of observed redshift (up to z=15) for galaxies with different star formation histories. We find that nebular emission may account for a non-negligible fraction of the light received from high-redshift galaxies. The ages and masses inferred for such objects through the use of spectral evolutionary models that omit the nebular contribution are therefore likely to contain systematic errors. We argue that a careful treatment of the nebular component will be essential for the interpretation of the rest-frame ultraviolet-to-infrared properties of the first galaxies formed, like the ones expected to be detected with the James Webb Space Telescope.

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