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O VI吸收体与Galerkin在低红移下的关联

Correlations between O VI Absorbers and Galaxies at Low Redshift

Rajib Ganguly, Renyue Cen, Taotao Fang, Kenneth Sembach

摘要:

在一个大尺度宇宙学模拟中,我们研究了星系与金属线吸收系统之间的关系,包括星系形成。我们的金属富集和氧物种的非平衡计算的详细治疗,使我们能够,第一次,进行定量计算的星系和O VI吸收体之间的互相关性。结果表明:(1)互相关强度对吸收强度的依赖性很弱,而对星系的光度的依赖性很强。(2)相关距离随光度单调增加,从0.1 L * 星系的~0.5- 1 h ^-1 Mpc增加到L* 星系的~3- 5 h ^-1 Mpc。(3)相关距离对吸收体强度有复杂的依赖关系,并有一个依赖于发光度的峰。(4)只有15%的O VI吸收体位于>=Lz* 星系附近。剩下的85%,那么,必须出现“近”低光度星系,虽然,这些星系的位置是不相关的吸收。这可能表明星系际气体的污染主要来自较小的星系。(5)有一个微妙的趋势,对于>~0.5Lz* 的星系,吸收体强度和星系光度之间存在正相关关系,在这个意义上,更强的吸收体在给定的投影距离上找到这样一个大星系的概率略高。对于亮度较低的星系,光度和吸收体强度之间似乎存在负相关。

英文摘要:

We investigate the relationship between galaxies and metal-line absorption systems in a large-scale cosmological simulation with galaxy formation. Our detailed treatment of metal enrichment and non-equilibrium calculation of oxygen species allow us, for the first time, to carry out quantitative calculations of the cross-correlations between galaxies and O VI absorbers. We find the following: (1) The cross-correlation strength depends weakly on the absorption strength but strongly on the luminosity of the galaxy. (2) The correlation distance increases monotonically with luminosity from ~0.5-1h^-1 Mpc for 0.1L* galaxies to ~3-5h^-1 Mpc for L* galaxies. (3) The correlation distance has a complicated dependence on absorber strength, with a luminosity-dependent peak. (4) Only 15% of O VI absorbers lie near >=Lz* galaxies. The remaining 85%, then, must arise ``near'' lower-luminosity galaxies, though, the positions of those galaxies is not well-correlated with the absorbers. This may point to pollution of intergalactic gas predominantly by smaller galaxies. (5) There is a subtle trend that for >~0.5Lz* galaxies, there is a positive correlation between absorber strength and galaxy luminosity in the sense that stronger absorbers have a slightly higher probability of finding such a large galaxy at a given projection distance. For less luminous galaxies, there seems to be a negative correlation between luminosity and absorber strength.

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