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HST棱镜光谱研究再电离时期的Lyman Break星系

A Lyman Break Galaxy in the Epoch of Reionization from HST Grism Spectroscopy

James E. Rhoads, Sangeeta Malhotra, Daniel Stern, Mark Dickinson, Norbert Pirzkal, Hyron Spinrad, Naveen Reddy, Nimish Hathi, Norman Grogin, Anton Koekemoer, Mi… 展开作者

James E. Rhoads, Sangeeta Malhotra, Daniel Stern, Mark Dickinson, Norbert Pirzkal, Hyron Spinrad, Naveen Reddy, Nimish Hathi, Norman Grogin, Anton Koekemoer, Michael A. Peth, Seth Cohen, Zhenya Zheng, Tamas Budavari, Ignacio Ferreras, Jonathan Gardner, Caryl Gronwall, Zoltan Haiman, Gerhardt Meurer, Leonidas Moustakas, Nino Panagia, Anna Pasquali, Kailash Sahu, Sperello di Serego Alighieri, Amber Straughn, Rachel Somerville, Jeremy Walsh, Rogier Windhorst, Chun Xu, Haojing Yan

摘要:

我们目前观测到一个红移z=6.573的发光星系-第一个光谱确认来自PEARS调查(探测演化和再电离光谱)的无狭缝HST ACS棱镜光谱,其显示在restframe 1216 A波长处光谱中的戏剧性连续中断。第二次确认是通过Keck + DEIMOS完成的。地面光谱不能清楚地探测到连续谱,但高波长分辨率使莱曼α发射线轮廓得以确定。我们比较线轮廓复合线轮廓在红移z=4.5。莱曼α线剖面没有显示阻尼翼衰减的特征,证实星系际气体在红移z=6.57处被电离。在更高的红移处的莱曼断裂光谱将有可能使用红外敏感的grisms的超深观测,即使在莱曼α被中性IGM衰减得太厉害而无法使用传统的地面光谱检测的红移处。

英文摘要:

We present observations of a luminous galaxy at redshift z=6.573 --- the end of the reioinization epoch --- which has been spectroscopically confirmed twice. The first spectroscopic confirmation comes from slitless HST ACS grism spectra from the PEARS survey (Probing Evolution And Reionization Spectroscopically), which show a dramatic continuum break in the spectrum at restframe 1216 A wavelength. The second confirmation is done with Keck + DEIMOS. The continuum is not clearly detected with ground-based spectra, but high wavelength resolution enables the Lyman alpha emission line profile to be determined. We compare the line profile to composite line profiles at redshift z=4.5. The Lyman alpha line profile shows no signature of a damping wing attenuation, confirming that the intergalactic gas is ionized at redshift z=6.57. Spectra of Lyman breaks at yet higher redshifts will be possible using comparably deep observations with IR-sensitive grisms, even at redshifts where Lyman alpha is too attenuated by the neutral IGM to be detectable using traditional spectroscopy from the ground.

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