arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv周末暂无论文更新，休息一下吧，周末愉快~~
arXiv 1111.2354astro-ph.COastro-ph.GA
收藏

红移5.7莱曼α光度函数的暗端斜率

The Faint-End Slope of the Redshift 5.7 Lyman Alpha Luminosity Function

Alaina Henry, Crystal Martin, Alan Dressler, Marcin Sawicki, Patrick McCarthy

备注：
Resubmitted to ApJ after addressing referee's comments
阅读 PDF
arXiv 页面 ↗HTML 原文 ↗

摘要：

使用新的Keck DEIMOS光谱，我们研究了Dressler等人（2011）最近报道的超微弱发射线星系的陡峭数量计数的起源。我们确认六个莱曼α发射器（LAES），其中三个有显着的不对称线轮廓突出的翅膀延伸300-400公里/秒的峰值发射的红色。有了这六个LAE，我们修正了我们以前在Dressler等人调查中对微弱LAE数量的估计。将这些数据与宇宙起源巡天和斯巴鲁深空中明亮LAE的密度相结合，提供了迄今为止对红移5.7 LAE光度函数（LF）的最佳约束。Schechter函数参数，phi^* = 4.5 x 10^{-4} Mpc^{-3}，L^* = 9.1 x 10^{42} erg s^{-1}，α =-1.70，使用极大似然技术和狭缝损耗模型进行估算。为了将这一结果的背景下，紫外线选择的星系人口，我们调查如何各种参数化的莱曼阿尔法等效宽度分布，以及测量的紫外线连续LF，影响形状和规范化的莱曼阿尔法LF。名义模型，它使用z~6等效宽度从文献中，落在明亮端的LAEs的观察到的空间密度短，可能表明需要更高的等效宽度。这种等效宽度分布的参数化意味着，我们最微弱的LAE中，有多达50%的LAE应该具有M_{UV} >-18.0，这使得即使是在最深的哈勃太空望远镜观测中也无法检测到它们。因此，超深发射线巡天发现了一些在再电离期结束时观测到的最暗的星系。这些暗淡的星系可能使星系际介质富含金属，并保持其电离状态。对这些天体的观测提供了对现今星系早期构造的一瞥。

英文摘要：

Using new Keck DEIMOS spectroscopy, we examine the origin of the steep number counts of ultra-faint emission-line galaxies recently reported by Dressler et al. (2011). We confirm six Lyman Alpha emitters (LAEs), three of which have significant asymmetric line profiles with prominent wings extending 300-400 km/s redward of the peak emission. With these six LAEs, we revise our previous estimate of the number of faint LAEs in the Dressler et al. survey. Combining these data with the density of bright LAEs in the Cosmic Origins Survey and Subaru Deep Field provides the best constraints to date on the redshift 5.7 LAE luminosity function (LF). Schechter function parameters, phi^* = 4.5 x 10^{-4} Mpc^{-3}, L^* = 9.1 x 10^{42} erg s^{-1}, and alpha= -1.70, are estimated using a maximum likelihood technique with a model for slit losses. To place this result in the context of the UV-selected galaxy population, we investigate how various parameterizations of the Lyman Alpha equivalent width distribution, along with the measured UV-continuum LF, affect shape and normalization of the Lyman Alpha LF. The nominal model, which uses z~6 equivalent widths from the literature, falls short of the observed space density of LAEs at the bright end, possibly indicating a need for higher equivalent widths. This parameterization of the equivalent width distribution implies that as many as 50% of our faintest LAEs should have M_{UV} > -18.0, rendering them undetectable in even the deepest Hubble Space Telescope surveys at this redshift. Hence, ultra-deep emission-line surveys find some of the faintest galaxies ever observed at the end of the reionization epoch. Such faint galaxies likely enrich the intergalactic medium with metals and maintain its ionized state. Observations of these objects provide a glimpse of the building blocks of present-day galaxies at an early time.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来，可能存在错误，请以论文正文为准。

↑