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z=7时低光度星系UV光谱斜率的无偏测量

The unbiased measurement of UV spectral slopes in low luminosity galaxies at z=7

A. B. Rogers, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop

摘要:

紫外线(UV)连续斜率β,通常在哈勃太空望远镜(HST)WFC 3/IR波段通过J-H色在z=7处观测到,是高红移恒星星族年龄、金属丰度和尘埃含量的有用指标。最近的研究表明,β随宇宙时间从红移7到4的红移演化可以在很大程度上用尘埃的积累来解释。然而,最初的说法,微弱的z=7星系在哈勃超深场WFC 3/IR成像(HUDF 09)是蓝色的,足以要求恒星星族的零红化,低金属量和年轻的年龄,迄今未见的恒星形成星系,已被驳斥和修订。在这里,我们重新审视的问题,如何最好地测量Z=7星系的紫外线斜率通过源恢复模拟,目前和未来的超深成像的背景下,从HST。我们考虑如何源检测,选择和颜色测量有偏见的测量β在以前的研究。在找到一种可靠的方法来测量模拟中的β(通过幂律拟合所有可用的测光)后,我们重新测量了先前公布的低光度z=7星系候选者样本的UV斜率。该样本中暗星系的平均紫外线斜率似乎与β =-2的正常恒星形成星系的内在分布一致,尽管正确解码潜在的分布将需要正在进行的HUDF 12计划的进一步成像。因此,我们继续考虑从这些新数据中获得对z=7处UV斜率的潜在分布的更好约束的策略,这将特别受益于在第二个J波段滤波器F140 W中添加成像。我们发现,一个精确和公正的测量β,然后应该是可能的。

英文摘要:

The Ultraviolet (UV) continuum slope beta, typically observed at z=7 in Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFC3/IR bands via the J-H colour, is a useful indicator of the age, metallicity, and dust content of high-redshift stellar populations. Recent studies have shown that the redward evolution of beta with cosmic time from redshift 7 to 4 can be largely explained by a build up of dust. However, initial claims that faint z=7 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field WFC3/IR imaging (HUDF09) were blue enough to require stellar populations of zero reddening, low metallicity and young ages, hitherto unseen in star-forming galaxies, have since been refuted and revised. Here we revisit the question of how best to measure the UV slope of z=7 galaxies through source recovery simulations, within the context of present and future ultra-deep imaging from HST. We consider how source detection, selection and colour measurement have each biased the measurement of beta in previous studies. After finding a robust method for measuring beta in the simulations (via a power law fit to all the available photometry), we remeasure the UV slopes of a sample of previously published low luminosity z=7 galaxy candidates. The mean UV slope of faint galaxies in this sample appears consistent with an intrinsic distribution of normal star-forming galaxies with beta=-2, although properly decoding the underlying distribution will require further imaging from the ongoing HUDF12 programme. We therefore go on to consider strategies for obtaining better constraints on the underlying distribution of UV slopes at z=7 from these new data, which will benefit particularly from the addition of imaging in a second J-band filter: F140W. We find that a precise and unbiased measurement of beta should then be possible.

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