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高红移莱曼α发射体的模拟

Modelling high redshift Lyman-alpha Emitters

Thibault Garel, Jérémy Blaizot, Bruno Guiderdoni, Daniel Schaerer, Anne Verhamme, Matthew Hayes

摘要:

我们提出了一个新的模型,高红移莱曼α发射体(LAEs)在宇宙学的背景下,考虑到共振散射的Ly-a光子通过膨胀的气体。GALICS半解析模型为我们提供了大量高红移星系的物理性质。我们实现了一个气体外流模型的基础上简单的缩放参数为每个星系。耦合与图书馆的数值实验的Ly-a传输通过扩大或静态的尘埃壳的气体,使我们能够获得Ly-a逃逸分数和配置文件。Ly-a光子逃逸分数的预测分布表明,具有低恒星形成率的星系具有单位数量级的fesc,这表明,对于这些物体,Ly-a可以用来跟踪恒星形成率假设一个给定的转换律。在强烈形成恒星的星系中,逃逸分数跨越从0到1的整个范围。该模型能够在3 < z < 5处获得与UV和Ly-a光度函数(LF)数据的良好匹配。我们发现,我们与明亮的Ly-a数据和Rauch等人(2008)在z=3时观察到的微弱布居都非常一致。我们的LAEs的Ly-a分布的大部分红移的扩散抑制IGM吸收的流出。我们的模型恢复了大部分观测到的Ly-a等效宽度(EW)分布,但我们无法获得有时检测到的非常大的值。LAEs的恒星质量和紫外LF的预测显示出令人满意的协议与观测估计。在我们的模型中,紫外线最亮的星系只显示出低的Ly-a EWs,正如许多高红移LAEs的观测所报道的那样。我们解释这种效应的联合后果的老恒星星族主办的紫外线明亮的星系,和高HI柱密度,我们预测这些对象,淬火优先共振Ly-A光子通过尘埃消光。

英文摘要:

We present a new model for high redshift Lyman-Alpha Emitters (LAEs) in the cosmological context which takes into account the resonant scattering of Ly-a photons through expanding gas. The GALICS semi-analytic model provides us with the physical properties of a large sample of high redshift galaxies. We implement a gas outflow model for each galaxy based on simple scaling arguments. The coupling with a library of numerical experiments of Ly-a transfer through expanding or static dusty shells of gas allows us to derive the Ly-a escape fractions and profiles. The predicted distribution of Ly-a photons escape fraction shows that galaxies with a low star formation rate have a f_esc of the order of unity, suggesting that, for those objects, Ly-a may be used to trace the star formation rate assuming a given conversion law. In galaxies forming stars intensely, the escape fraction spans the whole range from 0 to 1. The model is able to get a good match to the UV and Ly-a luminosity function (LF) data at 3 < z < 5. We find that we are in good agreement with both the bright Ly-a data and the faint population observed by Rauch et al. (2008) at z=3. Most of the Ly-a profiles of our LAEs are redshifted by the diffusion in the outflow which suppresses IGM absorption. The bulk of the observed Ly-a equivalent width (EW) distribution is recovered by our model, but we fail to obtain the very large values sometimes detected. Predictions for stellar masses and UV LFs of LAEs show a satisfactory agreement with observational estimates. The UV-brightest galaxies are found to show only low Ly-a EWs in our model, as it is reported by many observations of high redshift LAEs. We interpret this effect as the joint consequence of old stellar populations hosted by UV-bright galaxies, and high HI column densities that we predict for these objects, which quench preferentially resonant Ly-a photons via dust extinction.

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