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类星体邻近区氢的自屏蔽

Hydrogen Self Shielding in a Quasar Proximity Zone

Gabriel Altay, Rupert A. C. Croft, Tiziana Di Matteo

摘要:

我们计算了类星体在750 kpc/h内的HI分布,Lbol = 1.62e13 Lsun,由SMBH提供动力,Mbh = 4.47e8 Msun,z = 3。我们的数值模型包括一个宇宙学流体动力学模拟,跟踪自洽的增长和热反馈的黑洞计算使用GADGET-3,以及详细的后处理射线追踪处理的非均匀电离辐射场计算使用SPHRAY,这自然占光学厚系统的自屏蔽。我们表明,正确的处理自屏蔽引入一个平坦化功能的中性柱密度分布在日志NHI = 20和最低的中性分数的区域是不是那些密度最高的气体。为了进行比较,我们求解了一个Ricatti方程,该方程确定了在辐射场存在的情况下的平衡氢电离分数,该辐射场以1/r^2的形式下降,并且在给定的气体密度阈值以上的区域完全屏蔽电离辐射。我们证明,这些半解析模型不能再现HI场使用SPHRAY计算。最后,我们将我们的模型与Hennawi和Prochaska在他们的类星体探测类星体(QPQ)系列论文中观测到的背景类星体的吸收光谱进行比较。与QPQ样品相比,我们发现我们的类星体周围的光学厚度(Log NHI > 17.2)系统少了3倍,然而,承载我们模拟类星体的暗物质晕,Mhalo = 5.25 e12 Msun,比典型的QPQ宿主晕少了4倍。考虑到晕质量、重子过密度和吸收体数量之间的线性比例关系,我们估计QPQ样本中典型的宿主晕质量为1.92e13 Msun。

英文摘要:

We calculate the distribution of HI within 750 proper kpc/h of a quasar, Lbol = 1.62e13 Lsun, powered by an SMBH, Mbh = 4.47e8 Msun, at z = 3. Our numerical model includes a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation that tracks the self consistent growth and thermal feedback of black holes calculated using GADGET-3 as well as a detailed post-processing ray tracing treatment of the non-uniform ionizing radiation field calculated using SPHRAY, which naturally accounts for the self shielding of optically thick systems. We show that the correct treatment of self shielding introduces a flattening feature into the neutral column density distribution around Log NHI = 20 and that regions with the lowest neutral fractions are not those with the highest density gas. For comparison, we solve a Ricatti equation which determines the equilibrium Hydrogen ionization fractions in the presence of a radiation field that falls off as 1/r^2 with regions above a given gas density threshold completely shielded from ionizing radiation. We demonstrate that these semi analytic models cannot reproduce the HI field calculated using SPHRAY. We conclude by comparing our models of this single proximity zone to observations by Hennawi and Prochaska of the absorption spectra of background quasars which are coincident on the sky with foreground quasars in their Quasars Probing Quasars (QPQ) series of papers. Compared to the QPQ sample, we find a factor of 3 fewer optically thick (Log NHI > 17.2) systems around our quasar, however the dark matter halo that hosts our simulated quasar, Mhalo = 5.25e12 Msun, is less massive than the typical QPQ host halo by a factor of four. Allowing for a linear scaling between halo mass, baryonic overdensity and number of absorbers, we estimate the typical host halo mass in the QPQ sample as 1.92e13 Msun.

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