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红外选择引力透镜中的强偏差

Strong biases in infrared-selected gravitational lenses

Stephen Serjeant

摘要:

明亮的亚毫米选择星系被发现是强引力透镜的丰富来源。然而,扩展源的强引力透镜不可避免地导致微分放大。在本文中,我量化的差分放大率的影响,模拟远红外和submm调查的强引力透镜,使用前景人口的Navarro-Frenk-White加上德Vaucouleurs的密度分布,与模型源类似的宇宙睫毛和类星体J1148+5251。一些发射谱线诊断令人惊讶地不受微分放大效应的影响:例如,[C II] 158 μ m和CO(J=1-0)的辐射热分数,通常用于推断密度和电离参数,具有典型的微分放大效应,小于测量误差。然而,CO阶梯本身受到严重影响。远红外透镜星系巡天(例如60微米)强烈地选择焦散线接近活动星系核的高红移星系,增加了活动星系核的辐射热贡献。IRAS F10214+4724的镜头配置自然会在此进行说明。相反,亚毫米/毫米波巡天(例如500- 1400微米)强烈选择靠近恒星形成节的焦散线,从而提高后者的热测量分数。在一般情况下,从光谱能量分布的强透镜红外星系的辐射热分数的估计是如此的不可靠,是无用的,除非透镜质量模型是可用于校正微分放大。

英文摘要:

Bright submm-selected galaxies have been found to be a rich source of strong gravitational lenses. However, strong gravitational lensing of extended sources leads inevitably to differential magnification. In this paper I quantify the effect of differential magnification on simulated far-infrared and submm surveys of strong gravitational lenses, using a foreground population of Navarro-Frenk-White plus de Vaucouleurs' density profiles, with a model source resembling the Cosmic Eyelash and QSO J1148+5251. Some emission line diagnostics are surprisingly unaffected by differential magnification effects: for example, the bolometric fractions of [C II] 158um and CO(J=1-0), often used to infer densities and ionisation parameters, have typical differential magnification effects that are smaller than the measurement errors. However, the CO ladder itself is significantly affected. Far-infrared lensed galaxy surveys (e.g. at 60um) strongly select for high-redshift galaxies with caustics close to AGN, boosting the apparent bolometric contribution of AGN. The lens configuration of IRAS F10214+4724 is naturally explained in this context. Conversely, submm/mm-wave surveys (e.g. 500-1400um) strongly select for caustics close to knots of star formation boosting the latter's bolometric fraction. In general, estimates of bolometric fractions from spectral energy distributions of strongly lensed infrared galaxies are so unreliable as to be useless, unless a lens mass model is available to correct for differential magnification.

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