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恒星形成星系的大型富氧晕是银河系金属的主要储存库

The Large, Oxygen-Rich Halos of Star-Forming Galaxies Are A Major Reservoir of Galactic Metals

Jason Tumlinson, Christopher Thom, Jessica K. Werk, J. Xavier Prochaska, Todd M. Tripp, David H. Weinberg, Molly S. Peeples, John M. O'Meara, Benjamin D. Oppenh… 展开作者

Jason Tumlinson, Christopher Thom, Jessica K. Werk, J. Xavier Prochaska, Todd M. Tripp, David H. Weinberg, Molly S. Peeples, John M. O'Meara, Benjamin D. Oppenheimer, Joseph D. Meiring, Neal S. Katz, Romeel Dave, Amanda Brady Ford, Kenneth R. Sembach

摘要:

环星系介质(CGM)由星系流出和星系际气体吸积提供,但其质量,重元素富集以及与星系性质的关系受到观测的限制。在用哈勃太空望远镜上的宇宙起源光谱仪对42个星系的外围进行的一次调查中,我们探测到了恒星形成星系周围普遍存在的大(150千秒差距)电离氧晕,但我们发现很少或没有恒星形成的星系周围的电离氧要少得多。这种电离的CGM包含大量的重元素和气体,可能远远超过星系本身的气体储备。它是几乎所有恒星形成星系的基本组成部分,在恒星形成的淬火和向被动演化的过渡过程中被移除或转化。

英文摘要:

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is fed by galaxy outflows and accretion of intergalactic gas, but its mass, heavy element enrichment, and relation to galaxy properties are poorly constrained by observations. In a survey of the outskirts of 42 galaxies with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph onboard the Hubble Space Telescope, we detected ubiquitous, large (150 kiloparsec) halos of ionized oxygen surrounding star-forming galaxies, but we find much less ionized oxygen around galaxies with little or no star formation. This ionized CGM contains a substantial mass of heavy elements and gas, perhaps far exceeding the reservoirs of gas in the galaxies themselves. It is a basic component of nearly all star-forming galaxies that is removed or transformed during the quenching of star formation and the transition to passive evolution.

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