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z=3.1莱曼α发射星系中空间紧凑莱曼α发射的证据

Evidence for Spatially Compact Lyman Alpha Emission in z=3.1 Lyman-Alpha-Emitting Galaxies

Nicholas A. Bond, John J. Feldmeier, Ana Matkovic, Caryl Gronwall, Robin Ciardullo, Eric Gawiser

摘要:

我们提出了一个高空间分辨率的研究结果的线发射的样品z=3.1莱曼α发射镓(LAEs)在扩展的钱德拉深场南。在我们的HST/WFPC 2窄带成像中覆盖的八个对象中,两个具有清晰的检测,另外两个几乎没有检测到(~2-sigma)。清晰的检测是在~0.5 kpc的质心相应的休息紫外连续源,这表明线发射气体和年轻的恒星在LAEs空间重合。最亮的物体表现出扩展发射,半光半径为~1.5 kpc,但剩余的LAE表面亮度分布的堆栈与WFPC 2点扩散函数一致。这表明,这些天体的莱曼α辐射来自一个紧凑的区域(<~2 kpc),并且不能比远紫外连续辐射(<~1 kpc)延伸得更远。将我们的WFPC 2测光与先前的基于地面的单色通量测量进行比较,我们发现在95%(99.7%)的置信度下,我们不能错过超过22%(32%)的莱曼α发射。

英文摘要:

We present the results of a high-spatial-resolution study of the line emission in a sample of z=3.1 Lyman-Alpha-Emitting Galaxies (LAEs) in the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South. Of the eight objects with coverage in our HST/WFPC2 narrow-band imaging, two have clear detections and an additional two are barely detected (~2-sigma). The clear detections are within ~0.5 kpc of the centroid of the corresponding rest-UV continuum source, suggesting that the line-emitting gas and young stars in LAEs are spatially coincident. The brightest object exhibits extended emission with a half-light radius of ~1.5 kpc, but a stack of the remaining LAE surface brightness profiles is consistent with the WFPC2 point spread function. This suggests that the Lyman Alpha emission in these objects originates from a compact (<~2 kpc) region and cannot be significantly more extended than the far-UV continuum emission (<~1 kpc). Comparing our WFPC2 photometry to previous ground-based measurements of their monochromatic fluxes, we find at 95% (99.7%) confidence that we cannot be missing more than 22% (32%) of the Lyman Alpha emission.

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