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贫金属星暴星系的预测UV性质

Predicted UV properties of very metal-poor starburst galaxies

Anna Raiter, Daniel Schaerer, Robert Fosbury

摘要:

我们研究的预期属性的恒星爆发,以提供高Z星系调查和非常贫金属星系的解释的参考点。我们主要集中在紫外特性,如电离光谱,紫外连续,Ly α和HeII 1640 A线和双光子连续发射。我们使用进化的合成模型,涵盖从流行III到太阳和广泛的IMF的金属丰度。我们还结合了合成SED与云光电离代码更准确的预测星云发射,并研究可能偏离的情况下B假设的合成模型。电离通量,紫外线连续属性,并预测的Ly α和HeII 1640 A线强度的合成模型,涵盖了更广泛的参数空间比我们以前的计算。强偏离的情况下B的预测获得的Ly α和双光子连续在低金属丰度。在低星云密度,这两个被证明是增强成比例的平均能量由电离源发射的莱曼连续光子。因此,在低金属丰度下预测较大的Ly α等效宽度。HeII 1640 A线可以弱于情况B预测(在通量以及等效宽度方面),由于其电离参数的依赖性和增强的基础双光子连续。我们的研究结果有影响的恒星形成的金属贫和/或高红移星系的解释,星系之间的Ly α发射体(LAE)和莱曼破裂星系(LBG)人口,并在遥远的宇宙中的人口III恒星的搜索。

英文摘要:

We study the expected properties of starbursts in order to provide the point of reference for interpretation of high-z galaxy surveys and of very metal-poor galaxies. We concentrate mainly on the UV characteristics such as the ionizing spectra, the UV continuum, the Ly alpha and HeII 1640 A line and two-photon continuum emission. We use evolutionary synthesis models covering metallicities from Pop III to solar and a wide range of IMFs. We also combine the synthetic SEDs with the CLOUDY photoionization code for more accurate predictions of nebular emission, and to study possible departures from case B assumed in the synthesis models. The ionizing fluxes, UV continuum properties, and predicted Ly alpha and HeII 1640 A line strengths are presented for synthesis models covering a wider range of parameter space than our earlier calculations. Strong departures from case B predictions are obtained for Ly alpha and two-photon continuum at low metallicities. At low nebular densities both are shown to be enhanced proportionally to the mean energy carried by the Lyman continuum photons emitted by the ionizing source. Larger Ly alpha equivalent widths are therefore predicted at low metallicity. The HeII 1640 A line can be weaker than case B predicts (in terms of flux as well as the equivalent width) due to its ionization parameter dependence and to the enhanced underlying two-photon continuum. Our results have implications for the interpretation of star-forming metal-poor and/or high redshift galaxies, for galaxies among the Ly alpha emitters (LAE) and Lyman Break galaxy (LBG) populations, and for searches of Population III stars in the distant Universe.

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