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尘埃几何对星系莱曼α输出的影响

The effect of dust geometry on the Lyman-alpha output of galaxies

C. Scarlata, J. Colbert, H. I. Teplitz, N. Panagia, M. Hayes, B. Siana, A. Rau, P. Francis, A. Caon, A. Pizzella, C. Bridge

摘要:

我们提出了31个z=0.3莱曼α(Lya)发射体的光学光谱跟踪,这些发射体先前由Deharveng等人(2008)鉴定。我们发现,17%的Lya发射线的比例,需要硬电离连续活动星系核产生的。在与我们类似的研究中,传统上使用的均匀防尘屏几何形状不能同时再现所观察到的高Lya/Ha和Ha/Hbeta线比。我们考虑不同的可能性的几何形状的灰尘周围的发射源。我们发现,也是一个均匀的混合物的来源和灰尘不重现所观察到的线比。相反,这些都是很好地再现了一个clustrial灰尘屏幕。这种对几何形状的更现实的处理导致消光校正的(Lya/Halpha)_C值与情况B复合理论一致,而均匀的防尘屏模型将意味着(Lya/Halpha)_C值高于8.7。我们的分析表明,没有必要调用“ad-hoc”多相介质中的Lya光子只散射之间的尘埃云,并最终逃脱。

英文摘要:

We present the optical spectroscopic follow-up of 31 z=0.3 Lyman-alpha (Lya) emitters, previously identified by Deharveng et al. (2008). We find that 17% of the Lya emitters have line ratios that require the hard ionizing continuum produced by an AGN. The uniform dust screen geometry traditionally used in studies similar to ours is not able to simultaneously reproduce the observed high Lya/Halpha and Halpha/Hbeta line ratios. We consider different possibilities for the geometry of the dust around the emitting sources. We find that also a uniform mixture of sources and dust does not reproduce the observed line ratios. Instead, these are well reproduced by a clumpy dust screen. This more realistic treatment of the geometry results in extinction corrected (Lya/Halpha)_C values consistent with Case B recombination theory, whereas a uniform dust screen model would imply values (Lya/Halpha)_C higher than 8.7. Our analysis shows that there is no need to invoke "ad-hoc" multi phase media in which the Lya photons only scatter between the dusty clouds and eventually escape.

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