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WISP巡天中的极强发射线星系及其对高红移星系的意义

Very Strong Emission-Line Galaxies in the WISP Survey and Implications for High-Redshift Galaxies

H. Atek, B. Siana, C. Scarlata, M. Malkan, P. McCarthy, H. Teplitz, A. Henry, J. Colbert, C. Bridge, A. J. Bunker, A. Dressler, R. Fosbury, N. P. Hathi, C. Mart… 展开作者

H. Atek, B. Siana, C. Scarlata, M. Malkan, P. McCarthy, H. Teplitz, A. Henry, J. Colbert, C. Bridge, A. J. Bunker, A. Dressler, R. Fosbury, N. P. Hathi, C. Martin, N. R. Ross, H. Shim

摘要:

WFC 3红外光谱平行巡天(WISP)利用哈勃太空望远镜(HST)的红外棱栅功能,在宽红移范围内获得数千个星系的无狭缝光谱,包括宇宙恒星形成历史的峰值。我们选择了一组静止坐标系等效宽度大于200埃的强发射线星系。到目前为止,在我们分析的180弧分^[2]区域内,在红移范围为0.35 < z < 2.3的范围内共发现了176个天体。在估计样本中的活动星系核分数后,我们发现,这个人口由年轻和低质量的恒星爆发,具有较高的特定恒星形成率比正常的恒星形成星系在任何红移。在用凯克/LRIS对其中一个星系进行光谱跟踪后,我们报告在z = 0.7处检测到一个极贫金属星系,其12+Log(O/H)= 7.47 +- 0.11。星云发射线可以显著影响宽带通量密度,中值增亮为0.3等,示例产生增亮高达1等。低z星系中强发射线的存在可以模仿z ~ 8 dropout巡天中使用的颜色选择标准。为了有效地去除低红移的闯入者,需要深度光学成像,至少比探测到物体的波段深1等。最后,我们的经验表明,强大的星云线可能会导致高估的质量和星系的年龄来自拟合他们的SED。在不去除发射线的情况下,年龄和恒星质量的估计平均被高估了2倍,而对于高EW星系则被高估了10倍。因此,在恒星形成星系的SED拟合中,应系统地考虑发射谱线的贡献。

英文摘要:

The WFC3 Infrared Spectroscopic Parallel Survey (WISP) uses the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) infrared grism capabilities to obtain slitless spectra of thousands of galaxies over a wide redshift range including the peak of star formation history of the Universe. We select a population of very strong emission-line galaxies with rest-frame equivalent widths higher than 200 A. A total of 176 objects are found over the redshift range 0.35 < z < 2.3 in the 180 arcmin^2 area we analyzed so far. After estimating the AGN fraction in the sample, we show that this population consists of young and low-mass starbursts with higher specific star formation rates than normal star-forming galaxies at any redshift. After spectroscopic follow-up of one of these galaxies with Keck/LRIS, we report the detection at z = 0.7 of an extremely metal-poor galaxy with 12+Log(O/H)= 7.47 +- 0.11. The nebular emission-lines can substantially affect the broadband flux density with a median brightening of 0.3 mag, with examples producing brightening of up to 1 mag. The presence of strong emission lines in low-z galaxies can mimic the color-selection criteria used in the z ~ 8 dropout surveys. In order to effectively remove low redshift interlopers, deep optical imaging is needed, at least 1 mag deeper than the bands in which the objects are detected. Finally, we empirically demonstrate that strong nebular lines can lead to an overestimation of the mass and the age of galaxies derived from fitting of their SED. Without removing emission lines, the age and the stellar mass estimates are overestimated by a factor of 2 on average and up to a factor of 10 for the high-EW galaxies. Therefore the contribution of emission lines should be systematically taken into account in SED fitting of star-forming galaxies at all redshifts.

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