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第一个星系的观测特征

Observational Signatures of the First Galaxies

Jarrett L. Johnson

摘要:

随着詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜(JWST)的发射,未来十年将有可能探测到一些最早的星系发出的辐射。这些星系中有相当一部分可能是第三星族星团的宿主。对这些星团发射的复合辐射的探测将为原始恒星的初始质量函数(IMF)提供一个重要的新约束。在这里,我回顾了预期的复合线签名的Pop III星,并提出了宇宙辐射流体力学模拟的结果,在第一个星系在z ~ 12的Pop III星暴的初始阶段,从随时间变化的亮度和IMF敏感的复合线的等效宽度的计算。虽然在z > 10的第一个星系中探测到Pop III星团的辐射可能是不可行的,即使使用下一代望远镜,在较低的红移(即z < 6)形成的Pop III星团可能在JWST的深度调查中被探测到。

英文摘要:

Detection of the radiation emitted from some of the earliest galaxies will be made possible in the next decade, with the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). A significant fraction of these galaxies may host Population (Pop) III star clusters. The detection of the recombination radiation emitted by such clusters would provide an important new constraint on the initial mass function (IMF) of primordial stars. Here I review the expected recombination line signature of Pop III stars, and present the results of cosmological radiation hydrodynamics simulations of the initial stages of Pop III starbursts in a first galaxy at z ~ 12, from which the time-dependent luminosities and equivalent widths of IMF-sensitive recombination lines are calculated. While it may be unfeasible to detect the emission from Pop III star clusters in the first galaxies at z > 10, even with next generation telescopes, Pop III star clusters which form at lower redshifts (i.e. at z < 6) may be detectable in deep surveys by the JWST.

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