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在Ne VIII中探测到的QSO吸收系统:具有大有效截面的高金属丰度云

QSO Absorption Systems Detected in Ne VIII: High-Metallicity Clouds with a Large Effective Cross Section

Joseph D. Meiring, Todd M. Tripp, Jessica K. Werk, J. Christopher Howk, Edward B. Jenkins, J. Xavier Prochaska, Nicholas Lehner, Kenneth R. Sembach

摘要:

利用哈勃太空望远镜上的宇宙起源光谱仪(COS)获得的z = 0.9754类星体PG 1148 +549的高分辨率、高信噪比紫外光谱,研究了NeVIII+OVI吸收线系统在z(abs)=0.68381,0.70152,0.72478处的物理条件和丰度。除了NeVIII和OVI,从多个电离阶段的氧(OII,OIII,OIV)的吸收线被检测到,并与更高度电离的物种很好地对齐。我们发现,这些吸收剂是多相系统,包括热气体(T ~ 10^{5.7} K),产生NeVIII和OVI,和气体的冷相的金属丰度范围从Z = 0.3 Z_{solar}超太阳。冷相(~10^{4} K)的密度为n_{H} ~ 10^{-4} cm^{-3},尺寸较小(< 4kpc);这些冷云很可能会膨胀和消散,NeVIII可能位于冷气体和周围热得多的介质之间的过渡层内。NeVIII的红移密度dN/dz = 7^{+7}{-3},要求每个L > 0.1L* 的星系都有大量的这种云和大的有效吸收截面(>~ 100 kpc),实际上,我们在z(abs)=0.72478系统的红移,碰撞参量为217 kpc时发现了一个形成~L* 星系的恒星。像这些NeVIII系统的多相吸收体很可能是星系环星系介质中重子和金属的重要储存库。

英文摘要:

Using high resolution, high signal-to-noise ultraviolet spectra of the z = 0.9754 quasar PG1148+549 obtained with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on the Hubble Space Telescope, we study the physical conditions and abundances of NeVIII+OVI absorption line systems at z(abs) =0.68381, 0.70152, 0.72478. In addition to NeVIII and OVI, absorption lines from multiple ionization stages of oxygen (OII, OIII, OIV) are detected and are well-aligned with the more highly ionized species. We show that these absorbers are multiphase systems including hot gas (T ~ 10^{5.7} K) that produces NeVIII and OVI, and the gas metallicity of the cool phase ranges from Z = 0.3 Z_{solar} to supersolar. The cool (~10^{4} K) phases have densities n_{H} ~ 10^{-4} cm^{-3} and small sizes (< 4kpc); these cool clouds are likely to expand and dissipate, and the NeVIII may be within a transition layer between the cool gas and a surrounding, much hotter medium. The NeVIII redshift density, dN/dz = 7^{+7}_{-3}, requires a large number of these clouds for every L > 0.1L* galaxy and a large effective absorption cross section (>~ 100 kpc), and indeed, we find a star forming ~L* galaxy at the redshift of the z(abs)=0.72478 system, at an impact parameter of 217 kpc. Multiphase absorbers like these NeVIII systems are likely to be an important reservoir of baryons and metals in the circumgalactic media of galaxies.

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