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在z >= 3时莱曼连续谱发射上的污染:电离辐射演化的意义

Contamination on Lyman continuum emission at z >= 3: implication on the ionising radiation evolution

E. Vanzella, B. Siana, S. Cristiani, M. Nonino

摘要:

我们研究了在测量高红移星系逃逸的电离辐射时,受到低红移闯入者污染的可能性。利用新的超深VLT/VIMOS U波段数计数在GOODS-S领域,我们计算的预期概率的污染低z的闯入者作为一个函数的U-mag和图像空间分辨率(PSF)。假设地面观测不能分辨出半径在0.5”以内的天体,则每个z ≥ 3的星系有2.1%和3.2%的机会受到前景污染,采用面密度U带计数分别为27.5和28.5。假设半径为1.0”,这些概率增加到8.5%和12.6%。如果应用于文献中报道的z~3处直接观测到莱曼连续谱的估计,其中至少有1/3受到前景污染影响的概率大于50%.通过蒙特卡罗模拟,我们估计了前景源对莱曼连续谱通量的中位积分贡献(f900).目前从叠加数据的估计是>2 sigma的中值综合污染的前景sources.The空间交叉相关的U-波段目录和样本的星系在z>=3.4的GOODS-S字段,产生了一些U-波段检测系统完全符合预期的叠加统计。事实上,它们中的每一个都显示了ACS图像中至少一个偏移污染物的存在。在红移3.797的HUDF中,一个前景蓝色致密源(U=28.63 +/- 0.2)的前景污染的示例性案例被报道;如果观察到的视宁度大于0.5”,污染源将模仿观察到的(f1500/f900)_OBS ~ 38,错误地归因于更高红移的源。[删节]

英文摘要:

We investigate the possibility of contamination by lower-redshift interlopers in the measure of the ionising radiation escaping from high redshift galaxies. Taking advantage of the new ultra-deep VLT/VIMOS U-band number counts in the GOODS-S field,we calculate the expected probability of contamination by low-z interlopers as a function of the U-mag and the image spatial resolution (PSF). Assuming that ground-based observations can not resolve objects lying within a 0.5" radius of each other, then each z>=3 galaxy has a 2.1 and 3.2% chance of foreground contamination, adopting surface density U-band number counts down to 27.5 and 28.5,respectively. Those probabilities increase to 8.5 and 12.6%, assuming 1.0" radius. If applied to the estimates reported in the literature at z~3 for which a Lyman continuum has been observed directly,the probability that at least 1/3 of them are affected by foreground contamination is larger than 50%.From a Monte-Carlo simulation we estimate the median integrated contribution of foreground sources to the Lyman continuum flux (f900). Current estimations from stacked data are >2 sigma of the median integrated pollution by foreground sources.The spatial cross-correlation between the U-band catalog and a sample of galaxies at z>=3.4 in the GOODS-S field,produces a number of U-band detected systems fully consistent with the expected superposition statistics. Indeed, each of them shows the presence of at least one offset contaminant in the ACS images. An exemplary case of a foreground contamination in the HUDF at redshift 3.797 by a foreground blue compact source (U=28.63 +/- 0.2) is reported; if observed with a seeing larger than 0.5" the polluting source would mimic an observed (f1500/f900)_OBS ~ 38, erroneously ascribed to the source at higher redshift. [Abridged]

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