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再电离源的低红移类似物

Lower Redshift Analogues of the Sources of Reionization

Michael Rauch

摘要:

已知的类星体数量似乎不足以产生使宇宙再电离所需的电离通量。另一种选择,星系作为电离光子的来源,遇到的问题是,已知类型的星系几乎完全不透明的电离光子。要使再电离发生,要么需要大量的(大部分未被发现的)源,要么已知的星系群在过去需要有更大的电离辐射逃逸分数。本文讨论了最近发现的具有非对称、扩展的莱曼α发射区的微弱z~3莱曼α发射体,它们显然与相互作用星系有关。这些物体形状异常的线条轮廓和基本的恒星星族表明,存在着损坏的气体晕、气体的注入、潮汐或剥离的恒星特征以及年轻的热恒星群,这些都有助于释放电离辐射。随着星系间的相互作用和合并随着红移的增加而增加,这些效应只会在早期变得更加重要,因此这些相互作用的z~3天体可能是较晚的,红移较低的再电离源的类似物。

英文摘要:

Known populations of QSOs appear to fall short of producing the ionizing flux required for re-ionizing the universe. The alternative, galaxies as sources of ionizing photons, suffers from the problem that known types of galaxies are almost completely opaque to ionizing photons. For reionization to happen, either large numbers of (largely undiscovered) sources are required, or the known populations of galaxies need to have had a much larger escape fraction for ionizing radiation in the past. We discuss recent discoveries of faint z~3 Lyman alpha emitters with asymmetric, extended Lyman alpha emission regions, which apparently are related to interacting galaxies. The unusually shaped line profiles and the underlying stellar populations of these objects suggest the presence of damaged gaseous halos, infall of gas, tidal or stripped stellar features and young populations of hot stars, that would all be conducive to the release of ionizing radiation. As galaxy interactions and mergers increase with redshift, these effects can only become more important at earlier times, and so these interacting z~3 objects may be late, lower redshift analogues of the sources of reionization.

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