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基于辐射转移计算的半解析沙尘暴模拟的评价与改进

Evaluating and Improving Semi-analytic modelling of Dust in Galaxies based on Radiative Transfer Calculations

Fabio Fontanot, Rachel S. Somerville, Laura Silva, Pierluigi Monaco, Ramin Skibba

摘要:

为了比较星系形成模型与多波长观测的预测,尘埃衰减的处理是至关重要的。过去的研究大多采用简单的解析公式或完整的辐射转移(RT)计算。在这里,我们夫妇的恒星形成的历史和形态预测的半解析星系形成模型MORGANA与RT计算分光光度计和尘埃代码GRASIL创建一个库的星系SED从紫外线/光学通过远红外线,并比较分析处方的RT计算的预测。我们考虑一个低和高红移的样品,以及一个额外的图书馆与经验,非宇宙学恒星形成的历史和简单的(纯凸起或光盘)的形态。基于这些库,我们推导出拟合公式的有效尘埃光学厚度作为星系的物理性质,如金属丰度,气体质量和半径的函数。我们表明,这样的拟合公式可以预测的V-波段光学深度与散射小于0.4德克斯的低和高红移的样品,但有一个大的星系到星系的散射的衰减曲线的形状,可能是由于几何变化,我们的简单的配方没有捕捉好。然而,我们的新配方提供了一个更好的近似GRASIL结果在光学波长比标准的分析处方从文献中,特别是在高红移。

英文摘要:

The treatment of dust attenuation is crucial in order to compare the predictions of galaxy formation models with multiwavelength observations. Most past studies have either used simple analytic prescriptions or else full radiative transfer (RT) calculations. Here, we couple star formation histories and morphologies predicted by the semi-analytic galaxy formation model MORGANA with RT calculations from the spectrophotometric and dust code GRASIL to create a library of galaxy SEDs from the UV/optical through the far Infrared, and compare the predictions of the RT calculations with analytic prescriptions. We consider a low and high redshift sample, as well as an additional library constructed with empirical, non-cosmological star formation histories and simple (pure bulge or disc) morphologies. Based on these libraries, we derive fitting formulae for the effective dust optical depth as a function of galaxy physical properties such as metallicity, gas mass, and radius. We show that such fitting formulae can predict the V-band optical depth with a scatter smaller than 0.4 dex for both the low and high redshift samples, but that there is a large galaxy-to-galaxy scatter in the shapes of attenuation curves, probably due to geometrical variations, which our simple recipe does not capture well. However, our new recipe provides a better approximation to the GRASIL results at optical wavelength than standard analytic prescriptions from the literature, particularly at high redshift.

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