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[ OIII ] z ~ 3.1时莱曼α团的发射和气体动力学

[OIII] Emission and Gas Kinematics in a Lyman-alpha Blob at z ~ 3.1

Emily M. McLinden, Sangeeta Malhotra, James E. Rhoads, Pascale Hibon, Anne-Marie Weijmans, Vithal Tilvi

摘要:

我们提出了光谱测量的[OIII]发射线从两个子区域的强莱曼-α发射在无线电安静莱曼-α斑点(LAB)。所研究的斑点是z ~ 3.1的LAB 1(Steidel et al. 2000),[OIII]探测来自嵌入斑点晕中的两个Lyman break星系。[OIII]的测量是用8.4米大双筒望远镜上的LUCIFER和10米凯克望远镜上的NIRSPEC进行的。将[OIII]测量的红移与SAURON的莱曼-α红移进行比较(Weijmans et al. 2010),使我们能够朝着理解斑点中气体的运动学迈出一步。使用LUCIFER和NIRSPEC,我们发现[OIII]和莱曼α红移之间的速度偏移在研究的两个子区域中都是适度的负值或与0 km/s一致(范围从-72 +/- 42 -- +6 +/- 33 km/s)。负偏移意味着莱曼α相对于[OIII]蓝移,正偏移则意味着莱曼α相对于[OIII]红移。这些结果可能意味着流出不是该实验室中莱曼α逃逸的主要原因,因为流出通常会产生正速度偏移(McLinden等人,2011)。此外,我们提出了一个[OIII]线通量上限的第三个区域的LAB 1,一个区域,与任何底层星系无关。我们发现,[OIII]的上限从银河系无关的区域的斑点是至少1.4 - 2.5倍,比[OIII]通量从一个LBG相关的区域,并有一个[OIII]莱曼α比测量至少1.9 - 3.4倍小于相同的比率从一个LBG测量。

英文摘要:

We present spectroscopic measurements of the [OIII] emission line from two subregions of strong Lyman-alpha emission in a radio-quiet Lyman-alpha blob (LAB). The blob under study is LAB1 (Steidel et al. 2000) at z ~ 3.1, and the [OIII] detections are from the two Lyman break galaxies embedded in the blob halo. The [OIII] measurements were made with LUCIFER on the 8.4m Large Binocular Telescope and NIRSPEC on 10m Keck Telescope. Comparing the redshift of the [OIII] measurements to Lyman-alpha redshifts from SAURON (Weijmans et al. 2010) allows us to take a step towards understanding the kinematics of the gas in the blob. Using both LUCIFER and NIRSPEC we find velocity offsets between the [OIII] and Lyman-alpha redshifts that are modestly negative or consistent with 0 km/s in both subregions studied (ranging from -72 +/- 42 -- +6 +/- 33 km/s). A negative offset means Lyman-alpha is blueshifted with respect to [OIII], a positive offset then implies Lyman-alpha is redshifted with respect to [OIII]. These results may imply that outflows are not primarily responsible for Lyman alpha escape in this LAB, since outflows are generally expected to produce a positive velocity offset (McLinden et al. 2011). In addition, we present an [OIII] line flux upper limit on a third region of LAB1, a region that is unassociated with any underlying galaxy. We find that the [OIII] upper limit from the galaxy-unassociated region of the blob is at least 1.4 -- 2.5 times fainter than the [OIII] flux from one of the LBG-associated regions and has an [OIII] to Lyman-alpha ratio measured at least 1.9 -- 3.4 times smaller than the same ratio measured from one of the LBGs.

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