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揭示Mg II吸收体对伽马射线暴余辉的“反常”统计:弱系统的发生率

Casting light on the 'anomalous' statistics of Mg II absorbers toward Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows: the incidence of weak systems

Nicolas Tejos, Sebastian Lopez, J. Xavier Prochaska, Joshua S. Bloom, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky, Maria J. Maureira

摘要:

我们重新访问阶梯光谱(光谱分辨率R ~ 40000)的8个伽马射线暴余辉,以获得的发病率(dN/dz)弱干预Mg II系统在平均红移<z>= 1.5。我们发现,dN/dz的系统具有restframe等效宽度0.07 A &lt; W_r(Mg Ⅱ)< 1 A toward GRBs is statistically consistent with the incidence toward QSOs. Our result is in contrast to the results for Mg II systems having W_r >1 A,其中的dN/dz对伽玛暴已被发现是大于对类星体的一个因素~ 4。我们证实了密度过高,尽管只有~ 3倍。这表明,任何对GRB/QSO差异的解释,无论是吸收体本身还是选择效应,都应该是只有在GRB视线内拥有强吸收体的星系才固有的。我们认为,在所有已提出的方案,透镜放大是一个可以解释强镁II增强,而不允许在弱吸收剂的显着增强。

英文摘要:

We revisit echelle spectra (spectral resolution R ~ 40000) of 8 Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows to obtain the incidence (dN/dz) of weak intervening Mg II systems at a mean redshift of <z> = 1.5. We show that dN/dz of systems having restframe equivalent widths 0.07 A < W_r(MgII) < 1 A toward GRBs is statistically consistent with the incidence toward QSOs. Our result is in contrast to the results for Mg II systems having W_r > 1 A, where dN/dz toward GRBs has been found to be larger than toward QSOs by a factor of ~ 4. We confirm the overdensity albeit at a factor of ~ 3 only. This suggests that any explanation for the GRB/QSO discrepancy, be it intrinsic to the absorbers or a selection effect, should be inherent only to the galaxies that host strong absorbers in the line-of-sight to GRBs. We argue that, of all scenarios that have been proposed, lensing amplification is the one that could explain the strong Mg II enhancement while allowing for no significant enhancement in the weak absorbers.

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