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z=0.7大质量星系中多相冷吸积的发现

Discovery of Multi-Phase Cold Accretion in a Massive Galaxy at z=0.7

Glenn G. Kacprzak, Christopher W. Churchill, Charles C. Steidel, Lee R. Spitler, Jon A. Holtzman

摘要:

我们提出了详细的照片+碰撞电离模型和运动学模型的多相吸收气体,检测内的HST/COS,HST/STIS,和凯克/HIRES光谱的背景类星体TON 153,在104千秒差距沿投影短轴的恒星形成的螺旋星系(z=0.6610)。互补的g 'r' i 'Ks测光和恒星星族模型表明,主星系主要是一个4 Gyr的恒星星族,其金属丰度略大于太阳,估计log(M*)=11,log(Mvir)=13。低电离吸收的光电离模型(MgI、SiII、MgII和CIII)追踪大量的氢,将多组分气体限制为冷的(logT=3.8-5.2)和贫金属的(-1.68<[X/H]<-1.64)。滞后晕模型再现低电离吸收运动学,表明气体耦合到磁盘角动量,符合冷吸积模式材料的模拟。CIV和OVI吸收最好在单独的碰撞电离的贫金属(-2.50<[X/H]<-1.93)温相中建模,其中logT=5.3。虽然它们的运动学与风模型一致,但由于星系恒星金属丰度与吸收金属丰度之间的2-2.5dex差异,表明气体不可能来自星系风。我们讨论并得出结论,虽然类星体的视线通过沿星系短轴在0.3维里半径的投影距离,以及在其维里激波半径,相对运动学,温度和相对金属丰度的组合表明,多相吸收气体来自冷吸积围绕这个大质量星系。我们的研究结果似乎与最近的解释相矛盾,即探测星系投影短轴的吸收是对风进行采样。

英文摘要:

We present detailed photo+collisional ionization models and kinematic models of the multi-phase absorbing gas, detected within the HST/COS, HST/STIS, and Keck/HIRES spectra of the background quasar TON 153, at 104 kpc along the projected minor axis of a star-forming spiral galaxy (z=0.6610). Complementary g'r'i'Ks photometry and stellar population models indicate that the host galaxy is dominated by a 4 Gyr stellar population with slightly greater than solar metallicity and has an estimated log(M*)=11 and a log(Mvir)=13. Photoionization models of the low ionization absorption, (MgI, SiII, MgII and CIII) which trace the bulk of the hydrogen, constrain the multi-component gas to be cold (logT=3.8-5.2) and metal poor (-1.68<[X/H]<-1.64). A lagging halo model reproduces the low ionization absorption kinematics, suggesting gas coupled to the disk angular momentum, consistent with cold accretion mode material in simulations. The CIV and OVI absorption is best modeled in a separate collisionally ionized metal-poor (-2.50<[X/H]<-1.93) warm phase with logT=5.3. Although their kinematics are consistent with a wind model, given the 2-2.5dex difference between the galaxy stellar metallicity and the absorption metallicity indicates the gas cannot arise from galactic winds. We discuss and conclude that although the quasar sight-line passes along the galaxy minor axis at projected distance of 0.3 virial radii, well inside its virial shock radius, the combination of the relative kinematics, temperatures, and relative metallicities indicated that the multi-phase absorbing gas arises from cold accretion around this massive galaxy. Our results appear to contradict recent interpretations that absorption probing the projected minor axis of a galaxy is sampling winds.

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