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具有Lyman Alpha森林的阻尼Lyman Alpha系统的大尺度互相关:来自BOSS的首次测量

The large-scale cross-correlation of Damped Lyman Alpha Systems with the Lyman Alpha Forest: First Measurements from BOSS

Andreu Font-Ribera, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Eduard Arnau, Bill Carithers, Khee-Gan Lee, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Isabelle Pâris, Patrick Petitjean, James Rich, Emmanu… 展开作者

Andreu Font-Ribera, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Eduard Arnau, Bill Carithers, Khee-Gan Lee, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Isabelle Pâris, Patrick Petitjean, James Rich, Emmanuel Rollinde, Nicholas P. Ross, Donald P. Schneider, Martin White, Donald G. York

摘要:

利用重子振荡光谱巡天(BOSS)第9次数据发布,我们首次测量了莱曼α森林吸收和阻尼莱曼α系统(DLA)的大尺度互相关。在40 Mpc/h的尺度上可以清楚地检测到互相关,并且与标准冷暗物质结构形成模型的线性理论预测很好地拟合,并具有预期的红移失真,证实了其起源于结构的引力演化。一旦从独立的莱曼α森林相关性测量已知莱曼α森林偏差因子,DLA-Lyman α互相关的幅度仅取决于一个自由参数,即DLA系统的偏差因子。我们测得DLA偏置因子为b_D =(2.17 +/- 0.20)beta_F^{0.22},其中莱曼α森林红移失真参数beta_F预期大于1。该偏差因子意味着DLA的典型宿主晕质量比当前DLA模型中预期的大得多,并且如果DLA截面与晕质量按M_h^alpha缩放,则重现该偏差因子,其中对于beta_F=1,alpha= 1.1 +/- 0.1。要使观测到的DLA偏置因子和入射率相匹配,就需要原子气体在大质量晕中的扩展面积比目前星系形成模拟中预测的要大,在质量约为10^12太阳质量的主晕中,典型的DLA适当尺寸大于20 kpc。我们推断z ~ 2到3的典型星系被原子云系统所包围,这些原子云比星系的发光部分延伸得多,并且包含宿主晕中~ 10%的重子。

英文摘要:

We present the first measurement of the large-scale cross-correlation of Lyman alpha forest absorption and Damped Lyman alpha systems (DLA), using the 9th Data Release of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). The cross-correlation is clearly detected on scales up to 40 Mpc/h and is well fitted by the linear theory prediction of the standard Cold Dark Matter model of structure formation with the expected redshift distortions, confirming its origin in the gravitational evolution of structure. The amplitude of the DLA-Lyman alpha cross-correlation depends on only one free parameter, the bias factor of the DLA systems, once the Lyman alpha forest bias factors are known from independent Lyman alpha forest correlation measurements. We measure the DLA bias factor to be b_D = (2.17 +/- 0.20) beta_F^{0.22}, where the Lyman alpha forest redshift distortion parameter beta_F is expected to be above unity. This bias factor implies a typical host halo mass for DLAs that is much larger than expected in present DLA models, and is reproduced if the DLA cross section scales with halo mass as M_h^alpha, with alpha= 1.1 +/- 0.1 for beta_F=1. Matching the observed DLA bias factor and rate of incidence requires that atomic gas remains extended in massive halos over larger areas than predicted in present simulations of galaxy formation, with typical DLA proper sizes larger than 20 kpc in host halos of masses ~ 10^12 solar masses. We infer that typical galaxies at z ~ 2 to 3 are surrounded by systems of atomic clouds that are much more extended than the luminous parts of galaxies and contain ~ 10% of the baryons in the host halo.

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