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恒星形成星系周围的扩展莱曼α辐射

Extended Lyman-Alpha Emission around Star-forming Galaxies

Zheng Zheng, Renyue Cen, David Weinberg, Hy Trac, Jordi Miralda-Escude

摘要:

从恒星形成星系的星际介质中逃逸出来的莱曼α光子可能会被环星系和星系际介质中的中性氢原子共振散射,从而增加星系的莱曼α辐射的角范围。我们提出的预测,这种扩展的,低表面亮度的Lya发射的基础上辐射转移模型在宇宙学再电离模拟。扩展发射可以从Lya发射体(LAE)或Lyman break星系(LBG)的堆叠窄带图像中检测到。它的平均表面亮度轮廓有一个中央尖点,然后在内部特征尺度低于~0.2 Mpc(共动)时开始逐渐变陡,然后在外部特征尺度超过~1 Mpc时再次变陡。内部尺度标记从中心源的散射光到来自聚集源的发射的过渡,而外部尺度标记来自这些聚集源的散射发射的空间范围。这两个尺度都倾向于随着晕质量、UV光度和观测到的Lya光度而增加。我们的模拟预测的扩展发射已经在使用大型地面望远镜进行深窄带测光的范围内。这些观测将检验LAEs和LBG发射的辐射转移模型,并将为研究高红移恒星形成星系的环星系环境打开一扇新的窗口。

英文摘要:

Lyman-alpha (Lya) photons that escape the interstellar medium of star-forming galaxies may be resonantly scattered by neutral hydrogen atoms in the circumgalactic and intergalactic media, thereby increasing the angular extent of the galaxy's Lya emission. We present predictions of this extended, low surface brightness Lya emission based on radiative transfer modeling in a cosmological reionization simulation. The extended emission can be detected from stacked narrowband images of Lya emitters (LAEs) or of Lyman break galaxies (LBGs). Its average surface brightness profile has a central cusp, then flattens to an approximate plateau beginning at an inner characteristic scale below ~0.2 Mpc (comoving), then steepens again beyond an outer characteristic scale of ~1 Mpc. The inner scale marks the transition from scattered light of the central source to emission from clustered sources, while the outer scale marks the spatial extent of scattered emission from these clustered sources. Both scales tend to increase with halo mass, UV luminosity, and observed Lya luminosity. The extended emission predicted by our simulation is already within reach of deep narrowband photometry using large ground-based telescopes. Such observations would test radiative transfer models of emission from LAEs and LBGs, and they would open a new window on the circumgalactic environment of high-redshift star-forming galaxies.

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