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关于甚高能Blazar 3C 66 A的红移

On the Redshift of the Very High Energy Blazar 3C 66A

Amy Furniss, Michele Fumagalli, Charles Danforth, David A. Williams, Jason X. Prochaska

摘要:

作为一个明亮的伽马射线源,3C 66 A是高能天体物理学界的极大兴趣,有可能对河外背景光(EBL)模型和有助于这一光子场的过程施加宇宙学约束。由于缺乏内在的发射和吸收光谱的特点,没有确切的光谱红移测量一直是可能的。我们提出了新的远紫外光谱从哈勃太空望远镜/宇宙起源光谱仪(HST/COS)的BL Lac对象3C 66 A覆盖波长范围1132至1800埃。这些数据显示了一个具有星系际介质吸收特征的平滑连续谱,可以用来确定耀变体红移的下限z>0.3347。通过统计处理未检测到超过z=0.3347的额外吸收体来设定上限,指示在99%置信度下红移小于0.41,并且在99.9%置信度下排除z>0.444。最后,我们展示了如何从COS光谱的红移限制删除的潜力,这个伽玛射线发射耀变体的EBL使用高能量的数据,在2009年10月的耀斑的流量上限。

英文摘要:

As a bright gamma-ray source, 3C 66A is of great interest to the high-energy astrophysics community, having a potential for placing cosmological constraints on models for the extragalactic background light (EBL) and the processes which contribute to this photon field. No firm spectroscopic redshift measurement has been possible for this blazar due to a lack of intrinsic emission and absorption features in optical spectra. We present new far-ultraviolet spectra from the Hubble Space Telescope/Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (HST/COS) of the BL Lac object 3C 66A covering the wavelength range 1132 to 1800 Angstroms . The data show a smooth continuum with intergalactic medium absorption features which can be used to place a firm lower limit on the blazar redshift of z>0.3347. An upper limit is set by statistically treating the non-detection of additional absorbers beyond z=0.3347, indicating a redshift of less than 0.41 at 99% confidence and ruling out z>0.444 at 99.9% confidence. We conclude by showing how the redshift limits derived from the COS spectra remove the potential for this gamma-ray emitting blazar to place an upper limit on the flux of the EBL using high energy data from a flare in October of 2009.

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