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GRB视线周围的星系团

Clustering of galaxies around GRB sight-lines

Vladimir Sudilovsky, Jochen Greiner, Arne Rau, Mara Salvato, Sandra Savaglio, Susanna D. Vergani, P. Schady, Jonny Elliott, T. Kruehler, D. A. Kann, Sylvio Klos… 展开作者

Vladimir Sudilovsky, Jochen Greiner, Arne Rau, Mara Salvato, Sandra Savaglio, Susanna D. Vergani, P. Schady, Jonny Elliott, T. Kruehler, D. A. Kann, Sylvio Klose, Andrea Rossi, Robert Filgas, Sebastian Schmidl

摘要:

有证据表明,相对于类星体的视线,沿着伽马射线暴余辉的视线分布着高密度的强MgII吸收线系统。如果这种过剩是真实的,我们也应该预期在GRB视线周围的场星系密度过高,因为强MgII倾向于追踪这些源。在这项工作中,我们通过计算120 $^{\prime\prime}$($\sim470~h_{71}^{-1}~\mathrm{Kpc}$在$\langle z\rangle \sim0.4$)的伽玛暴余辉的星系的两点角关联函数来检验这一预期。我们比较了伽马射线暴光学和近红外探测器(GROND)GRB余辉样本-GRB领域的最大和最均匀的样本之一-与星系和AGN中发现的COSMOS-30测光目录。我们没有发现显着的异常星系集群的信号,在估计的中位数红移的$z\sim0.3$伽玛暴视线周围,下降到$K_{\mathrm{AB}}<19.3$。这一结果与从GRB余辉光谱中获得的MgII过量的预期相反,尽管许多已确认的MgII吸收剂的星系对应物可能太微弱而无法在我们的样品中检测到--特别是那些在$z>1$的星系。我们注意到,即使对我们样本的一个子集增加更高灵敏度的斯皮策IRAC或HST WFC 3数据,也会使这项调查的深度增加几个数量级,同时增加统计数据,并能够调查更大的红移空间。

英文摘要:

There is evidence of an overdensity of strong intervening MgII absorption line systems distributed along the lines of sight towards GRB afterglows relative to quasar sight-lines. If this excess is real, one should also expect an overdensity of field galaxies around GRB sight-lines, as strong MgII tends to trace these sources. In this work, we test this expectation by calculating the two point angular correlation function of galaxies within 120$^{\prime\prime}$ ($\sim470~h_{71}^{-1}~\mathrm{Kpc}$ at $\langle z\rangle \sim0.4$) of GRB afterglows. We compare the Gamma-ray burst Optical and Near-infrared Detector (GROND) GRB afterglow sample -- one of the largest and most homogeneous samples of GRB fields -- with galaxies and AGN found in the COSMOS-30 photometric catalog. We find no significant signal of anomalous clustering of galaxies at an estimated median redshift of $z\sim0.3$ around GRB sight-lines, down to $K_{\mathrm{AB}}<19.3$. This result is contrary to the expectations from the MgII excess derived from GRB afterglow spectroscopy, although many confirmed galaxy counterparts to MgII absorbers may be too faint to detect in our sample -- especially those at $z>1$. We note that the addition of higher sensitivity Spitzer IRAC or HST WFC3 data for even a subset of our sample would increase this survey's depth by several orders of magnitude, simultaneously increasing statistics and enabling the investigation of a much larger redshift space.}

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