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红移2.38的莱曼α团中的热气、冷气和亚晕

Hot Gas, Cold Gas and Sub-Halos in a Lyman-alpha Blob at Redshift 2.38

Paul. J. Francis, Michael A. Dopita, James W. Colbert, Povilas Palunas, Claudia Scarlata, Harry Teplitz, Gerard M. Williger, Bruce E. Woodgate

摘要:

我们提出了积分场光谱的莱曼α斑点在红移2.38,光谱分辨率比以前发表的工作好三倍。与以前的观察一样,斑点具有混沌的速度结构,其中大部分分解为多个分量。然而,我们的光谱学表明,这些多重分量中的一些非常窄:它们的速度宽度小于100 km/s。结合这些新的数据和以前的观测,我们认为这个莱曼α斑点存在于一个大约10^13太阳质量的暗物质晕中。在这个光环的中心是两个紧凑的红色大质量星系。它们被炽热的气体包围,可能是合并引发的核恒星爆发产生的超级风。这种炽热的气体关闭了这些星系非核区域的恒星形成,导致它们的红色和死亡的颜色。一个丝状或块状的下沉冷气体与热气体相碰撞,并被冲击到高温,同时仍然距离红色星系约30千秒差距。激波区是莱曼α自吸收区,但产生C IV辐射。更远的地方,一些次晕中的冷气体被点亮,最有可能是潮汐触发的恒星形成,当它们犁过热晕介质时的弓形激波,来自灯丝碰撞的莱曼-α共振散射,以及潮汐剥离的气体,这增加了莱曼-α逃逸分数。观测到的莱曼α发射从斑点是占主导地位的总和发射从这些子晕。从统计学的角度来看,我们认为莱曼α斑点的形状并没有被大大拉长,而且大多数并不是由中央活动星系核或星爆的电离或散射提供动力的。

英文摘要:

We present integral field spectroscopy of a Lyman-alpha blob at redshift 2.38, with a spectral resolution three times better than previous published work. As with previous observations, the blob has a chaotic velocity structure, much of which breaks up into multiple components. Our spectroscopy shows, however, that some of these multiple components are extremely narrow: they have velocity widths of less than 100 km/s. Combining these new data with previous observations, we argue that this Lyman-alpha blob resides in a dark-matter halo of around 10^13 solar masses. At the centre of this halo are two compact red massive galaxies. They are surrounded by hot gas, probably a super-wind from merger-induced nuclear starbursts. This hot gas has shut down star formation in the non-nuclear region of these galaxies, leading to their red-and-dead colours. A filament or lump of infalling cold gas is colliding with the hot gas phase and being shocked to high temperatures, while still around 30kpc from the red galaxies. The shock region is self-absorbed in Lyman-alpha but produces C IV emission. Further out still, the cold gas in a number of sub-halos is being lit up, most likely by a combination of tidally triggered star formation, bow-shocks as they plough through the hot halo medium, resonant scattering of Lyman-alpha from the filament collision, and tidal stripping of gas which enhances the Lyman-alpha escape fraction. The observed Lyman-alpha emission from the Blob is dominated by the sum of the emission from these sub-halos. On statistical grounds, we argue that Lyman-alpha blobs are not greatly elongated in shape, and that most are not powered by ionisation or scattering from a central active galactic nucleus or starburst.

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