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阻尼莱曼α吸收系统发射和吸收特性的联合模型

A joint model for the emission and absorption properties of damped Lyman alpha absorption systems

Luke A. Barnes, Martin G. Haehnelt

摘要:

最近发现的超微弱扩展线辐射源可以解释阻尼莱曼α系统(DLAs)在z ~ 3处的大部分入射率,如果将线辐射解释为Ly α的话。我们在这里展示了一个类似于Haehnelt,Steinmetz和Rauch(2000)提出的模型,该模型在结构形成的$Λ$ CDM模型的背景下解释了DLAs的发生率和运动学,也再现了新的微弱Ly α发射体群体的尺寸分布。这进一步支持识别的DLA宿主星系迄今难以捉摸的人口的发射器。观测到的DLA的入射率与观测到的空间密度和发射体的尺寸分布一起表明,DLA宿主星系的Ly α发射的占空比约为0.2 - 0.4。我们进一步表明,赖氨酸α冷却预计贡献不大的赖氨酸α发射的大多数发射器。这使得恒星形成集中在中心,以十分之几个M_sun/年的速度,被半径高达30-50 kpc的扩展Ly α晕包围,作为对发射起源的最合理的解释。Ly α发射的光度函数和低电离吸收的速度宽度分布都要求位于暗物质(DM)晕内的星系维里速度< 50 - 70 km/s对z ~ 3处DLAs的入射率贡献很小,这表明恒星形成引起的能量和动量输入有效地将气体从这些晕中移除。维里速度为100 - 150 km/s的DM晕的星系似乎占了DLA宿主星系的大多数。因此,z ~ 3处的DLA宿主星系应该成为典型的现代星系的组成部分。

英文摘要:

The recently discovered population of ultra-faint extended line emitters can account for the majority of the incidence rate of Damped Lyman Alpha systems (DLAs) at z ~ 3 if the line emission is interpreted as Ly alpha. We show here that a model similar to that proposed by Haehnelt, Steinmetz, & Rauch (2000), which explains the incidence rate and kinematics of DLAs in the context of $Λ$CDM models for structure formation, also reproduces the size distribution of the new population of faint Ly alpha emitters for plausible parameters. This lends further support to identification of the emitters with the hitherto elusive population of DLA host galaxies. The observed incidence rate of DLAs together with the observed space density and size distribution of the emitters suggest a duty cycle of ~ 0.2 - 0.4 for the Ly alpha emission from DLA host galaxies. We further show that Ly alpha cooling is expected to contribute little to the Ly alpha emission for the majority of emitters. This leaves centrally concentrated star formation at a rate of a few tenths M_sun/yr, surrounded by extended Ly alpha halos with radii up to 30-50 kpc, as the most plausible explanation for the origin of the emission. Both the luminosity function of Ly alpha emission and the velocity width distribution of low ionization absorption require that galaxies inside Dark Matter (DM) halos with virial velocities < 50 - 70 km/s contribute little to the incidence rate of DLAs at z ~ 3, suggesting that energy and momentum input due to star formation efficiently removes gas from these halos. Galaxies with DM halos with virial velocities of 100 - 150 km/s appear to account for the majority of DLA host galaxies. DLA host galaxies at z ~ 3 should thus become the building blocks of typical present-day galaxies.

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