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阻尼Lyman α系统的尘埃偏置:贝叶斯分析

Dust Biasing of Damped Lyman Alpha Systems: a Bayesian Analysis

Andrew Pontzen, Max Pettini

摘要:

如果阻尼莱曼α系统(DLAs)包含少量的尘埃,背景类星体的紫外光光度就会严重减弱。当光谱发生红移时,这会导致光学测量中的偏差。以前的估计这种影响的大小是在一些紧张局势,特别是,分布在列密度金属丰度平面的DLAs导致索赔,我们可能会错过相当一部分的金属丰富,高柱密度DLAs,而无线电调查不揭开大量人口,否则隐藏的系统。出于这种紧张局势,我们进行贝叶斯参数估计分析的一个简单的尘埃遮蔽模型。我们包括无线电和光学观测的DLAs在我们的整体可能性分析,并表明,这些并不,事实上,构成冲突的限制。我们的模型给出了灰尘的偏置效应的统计限制,预测只有7%的DLAs由于灰尘遮蔽而从光学样品中丢失;在2 sigma置信度下,这个数字的最大值为17%。这与最近声称DLA发病率被低估了30 - 50%形成鲜明对比。发现DLAs的平均金属丰度的光学测量低估了真实值仅0.1德克斯(或最多0.4德克斯,2西格玛置信限),与阿克曼等人的无线电调查结果一致。受尘埃偏置影响最大的量是DLAs中金属的总宇宙密度,Omega_{Z,DLA},这是在光学调查低估了约2倍。(节录)

英文摘要:

If damped Lyman alpha systems (DLAs) contain even modest amounts of dust, the ultraviolet luminosity of the background quasar can be severely diminished. When the spectrum is redshifted, this leads to a bias in optical surveys for DLAs. Previous estimates of the magnitude of this effect are in some tension; in particular, the distribution of DLAs in the column-density -- metallicity plane has led to claims that we may be missing a considerable fraction of metal rich, high column density DLAs, whereas radio surveys do not unveil a substantial population of otherwise hidden systems. Motivated by this tension, we perform a Bayesian parameter estimation analysis of a simple dust obscuration model. We include radio and optical observations of DLAs in our overall likelihood analysis and show that these do not, in fact, constitute conflicting constraints. Our model gives statistical limits on the biasing effects of dust, predicting that only 7% of DLAs are missing from optical samples due to dust obscuration; at 2 sigma confidence, this figure takes a maximum value of 17%. This contrasts with recent claims that DLA incidence rates are underestimated by 30 -- 50%. Optical measures of the mean metallicities of DLAs are found to underestimate the true value by just 0.1 dex (or at most 0.4 dex, 2 sigma confidence limit), in agreement with the radio survey results of Akerman et al. The quantity most affected by dust biasing is the total cosmic density of metals in DLAs, Omega_{Z,DLA}, which is underestimated in optical surveys by a factor of approximately two. (Abridged.)

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