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GALEX光谱中低红移Ly-alpha选择半导体:与紫外连续谱选择半导体和高红移Ly-alpha发射体的比较

Low-Redshift Ly-alpha Selected Galaxies from GALEX Spectroscopy: A Comparison with Both UV-Continuum Selected Galaxies and High-Redshift Ly-alpha Emitters

L. L. Cowie, A. J. Barger, E. M. Hu

摘要:

我们构造了一个低红移Ly-alpha发射线选择源的样本,从九个深场的GALEX棱镜光谱研究Ly-alpha发射在宇宙时间的星系种群中的作用。我们最终的样本包括从FUV(NUV)通道中选择的红移区间z=0.195-0.44(z=0.65-1.25)的119(141)个源。我们将Ly-alpha源归类为AGN,如果高电离发射线存在于它们的紫外光谱中,否则可能是恒星形成星系。我们分类为AGN使用我们的Ly-alpha发射体(LAE)分析的线宽额外的来源。这些分类得到了X射线和光谱观测的广泛支持。定义GALEX LAE样品以相同的方式作为高红移LAE样品,我们表明,LAE构成只有约5%的NUV连续选择星系在z~0.3。我们还表明,它们在z~0.3比在z~3更不常见。我们发现z~0.3光学确认的Ly-alpha星系的金属度-光度关系低于z~0.3 NUV连续选择星系的金属度-光度关系,但在相似光度下具有相似的H-alpha速度宽度,这表明它们也低于NUV连续选择星系的金属度-质量关系。我们发现,平均而言,Ly-alpha星系有更蓝的颜色,更低的折射率从巴耳末线比测量,和更紧凑的形态比NUV连续选择的星系。最后,我们确认了z~2 Lyman break星系(LBG)的光度金属丰度相对较低,并且发现它们与z~0.3 Ly-alpha星系处于相同的金属丰度范围。

英文摘要:

We construct a sample of low-redshift Ly-alpha emission-line selected sources from GALEX grism spectroscopy of nine deep fields to study the role of Ly-alpha emission in galaxy populations with cosmic time. Our final sample consists of 119 (141) sources selected in the redshift interval z=0.195-0.44 (z=0.65-1.25) from the FUV (NUV) channel. We classify the Ly-alpha sources as AGNs if high-ionization emission lines are present in their UV spectra and as possible star-forming galaxies otherwise. We classify additional sources as AGNs using line widths for our Ly-alpha emitter (LAE) analysis. These classifications are broadly supported by comparisons with X-ray and optical spectroscopic observations. Defining the GALEX LAE sample in the same way as high-redshift LAE samples, we show that LAEs constitute only about 5% of NUV-continuum selected galaxies at z~0.3. We also show that they are less common at z~0.3 than they are at z~3. We find that the z~0.3 optically-confirmed Ly-alpha galaxies lie below the metallicity-luminosity relation of the z~0.3 NUV-continuum selected galaxies but have similar H-alpha velocity widths at similar luminosities, suggesting that they also lie below the metallicity-mass relation of the NUV-continuum selected galaxies. We show that, on average, the Ly-alpha galaxies have bluer colors, lower extinctions as measured from the Balmer line ratios, and more compact morphologies than the NUV-continuum selected galaxies. Finally, we confirm that the z~2 Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) have relatively low metallicities for their luminosities, and we find that they lie in the same metallicity range as the z~0.3 Ly-alpha galaxies.

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