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尘埃MgII吸收体:总体统计、消光曲线和伽马射线暴视线

Dusty MgII absorbers: population statistics, extinction curves and gamma-ray burst sightlines

J. M. Budzynski, P. C. Hewett

摘要:

本文对Sloan数字巡天(SDSS)观测到的类星体的~8300个强(等效宽度> 1A)MgII吸收体样品的尘埃含量和近紫外/光学消光曲线进行了新的测定,这些吸收体的红移为0.4<z<2.2。考虑到尘埃消光的选择效应,包括减少的信噪比的吸收体出现在一个红化类星体光谱,我们发现一个更强的依赖性E(B-V)对吸收体的休息等效宽度(EW)比其他已发表的工作。中值红化对EW的依赖性可以通过幂律模型再现:对于1.0A<EW<5.0A,E(B-V)= 0.8 +/-3 10 -4 * EW^(3.48+/-0.3)。来自通量限制类星体调查的观测到的Mg II样品显示出明显的不完整性,EW>1A的吸收体为24+/-4%,EW>2A的吸收体为34+/-2%。直接测定吸收剂的近紫外消光曲线的形状作为E(B-V)的函数,表明消光曲线形式的系统变化的证据。在低E(B-V)(>0.05)时,消光曲线由小麦哲伦云状消光曲线很好地表示。对于中间E(B-V)s(<0.2),大约三分之一的MgII吸收体显示出类似于大麦云云的2175 A特征的证据。对于少数高E(B-V)(>0.3)吸收体,其中大多数表现出强烈的CaII 3935,3970吸收,有证据表明2175 A的特征与银河系中发现的一样强。强镁II吸收剂的尘埃含量的新结果的应用表明,尘埃吸收剂可以占一个显着的比例,高达两个因素,所观察到的超密度的吸收剂朝向伽马射线暴(GRB)的视线相比,视线朝向类星体在通量有限的样品。(节录)

英文摘要:

We present a new determination of the dust content and near-ultraviolet/optical extinction curves associated with a sample of ~8300 strong (equivalent width > 1A) Mg II absorbers, with redshifts 0.4<z<2.2, identified in Sloan Digital Sky survey (SDSS) spectra of quasars. Taking into account the selection effects that result from dust extinction, including the reduction in the signal-to-noise ratio of an absorber appearing in a reddened quasar spectrum, we find a stronger dependence of E(B-V) on absorber rest equivalent width (EW) than in other published work. The dependence of the median reddening on EW can be reproduced by a power-law model: E(B-V)=.8+/-3*10-4 * EW^(3.48+/-0.3) for 1.0A<EW<5.0A. Observed Mg II samples, derived from flux-limited quasar surveys, are shown to suffer from significant incompleteness at the level of 24+/-4 per cent for absorbers with EW>1A and 34+/-2 per cent for absorbers with EW>2A. Direct determination of the shape of the near-ultraviolet extinction curves for absorbers as a function of E(B-V) show evidence for systematic changes in the form of the extinction curves. At low E(B-V) (>0.05), the extinction curve is well represented by a Small Magellanic Cloud-like extinction curve. For intermediate E(B-V)s (<0.2), approximately a third of MgII absorbers show evidence for a 2175A feature similar to that of the Large Magellanic Cloud. For the small number of high E(B-V) (>0.3) absorbers, the majority of which exhibit strong CaII 3935,3970 absorption, there is evidence for a 2175A feature as strong as that found in the Milky Way. Application of the new results on the dust content of strong Mg II absorbers shows that dusty absorbers can account for a significant proportion, up to a factor of two, of the observed overdensity of absorbers seen towards Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) sightlines, compared to sightlines towards quasars in flux-limited samples. (Abridged)

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