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金属丰度的红外精细结构谱线诊断

Metallicity Diagnostics with Infrared Fine-Structure Lines

Tohru Nagao, Roberto Maiolino, Alessandro Marconi, Hideo Matsuhara

摘要:

虽然测量星系中气体金属丰度在不同的红移是至关重要的约束星系演化的情况下,只有休息帧的光发射线已被普遍用于测量的金属丰度。这使得我们无法准确测量尘埃遮蔽星系的金属丰度,从而无法了解尘埃种群的化学演化,例如超亮红外星系。在这里,我们提出了基于红外精细结构发射线的气体金属丰度的诊断,即使是最模糊的系统几乎不受尘埃消光的影响。具体来说,我们专注于精细结构线主要来自HII区域,而不是在光解离区域,以尽量减少依赖性和不确定性的金属丰度诊断从各种物理参数。基于光电离模型,我们发现([OIII]51.80+[OIII]88.33)/[NIII]57.21是一个很好的气体金属丰度的示踪剂。个别线比率[OIII]51.80/[NIII]57.21或[OIII]88.33/[NIII]57.21也可用作金属丰度的诊断,但它们对气体密度的依赖性更强。谱线比[OIII]88.33/[OIII]51.80和[NII]121.7/[NIII]57.21可分别用于测量和解释对气体密度和电离参数的依赖性。我们表明,这些诊断精细结构线检测与赫歇尔在明亮的红外星系出z=0.4。用这些精细结构谱线测量金属丰度将是可行的,在相对较高的红移(z=1或更大)与SPICA,未来的红外空间天文台。

英文摘要:

Although measuring the gas metallicity in galaxies at various redshifts is crucial to constrain galaxy evolutionary scenarios, only rest-frame optical emission lines have been generally used to measure the metallicity. This has prevented us to accurately measure the metallicity of dust-obscured galaxies, and accordingly to understand the chemical evolution of dusty populations, such as ultraluminous infrared galaxies. Here we propose diagnostics of the gas metallicity based on infrared fine structure emission lines, which are nearly unaffected by dust extinction even the most obscured systems. Specifically, we focus on fine-structure lines arising mostly from HII regions, not in photo-dissociation regions, to minimize the dependence and uncertainties of the metallicity diagnostics from various physical parameters. Based on photoionization models, we show that the emission-line flux ratio of ([OIII]51.80+[OIII]88.33)/[NIII]57.21 is an excellent tracer of the gas metallicity. The individual line ratios [OIII]51.80/[NIII]57.21 or [OIII]88.33/[NIII]57.21 can also be used as diagnostics of the metallicity, but they suffer a stronger dependence on the gas density. The line ratios [OIII]88.33/[OIII]51.80 and [NII]121.7/[NIII]57.21 can be used to measure and, therefore, account for the dependences on the of the gas density and ionization parameter, respectively. We show that these diagnostic fine-structure lines are detectable with Herschel in luminous infrared galaxies out z=0.4. Metallicity measurements with these fine-structure lines will be feasible at relatively high redshift (z=1 or more) with SPICA, the future infrared space observatory.

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