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在发光的高红移类星体周围的莱曼α发射中揭示的宇宙网细丝

A cosmic web filament revealed in Lyman-alpha emission around a luminous high-redshift quasar

Sebastiano Cantalupo, Fabrizio Arrigoni-Battaia, J. Xavier Prochaska, Joseph F. Hennawi, Piero Madau

摘要:

对宇宙结构形成的模拟预测,星系嵌入在一个“宇宙网”中,其中大多数重子以稀薄和高度电离的气体形式存在。这种材料已经研究了几十年的吸收背景源,但这些固有的一维探针的稀疏性排除了对底层网络的三维形态的直接约束。在这里,我们报告观测到的宇宙网细丝莱曼α发射,发现在宇宙气体荧光“照明”明亮的类星体在z=2.3的调查。射电宁静类星体UM 287周围的莱曼-α辐射预计大小约为460千秒差距,远远超出了任何可能的相关暗物质晕的维里半径。从观测到的辐射估计星云的冷气质量至少是宇宙学模拟通常发现的质量的十倍,这表明在当前的数值模型中可能缺少一个亚千秒差距大小的星系际气体团。

英文摘要:

Simulations of structure formation in the Universe predict that galaxies are embedded in a "cosmic web", where the majority of baryons reside as rarefied and highly ionized gas. This material has been studied for decades in absorption against background sources, but the sparseness of these inherently one-dimensional probes preclude direct constraints on the three-dimensional morphology of the underlying web. Here we report observations of a cosmic web filament in Lyman-alpha emission, discovered during a survey for cosmic gas fluorescently "illuminated" by bright quasars at z=2.3. With a projected size of approximately 460 physical kpc, the Lyman-alpha emission surrounding the radio-quiet quasar UM287 extends well beyond the virial radius of any plausible associated dark matter halo. The estimated cold gas mass of the nebula from the observed emission is at least ten times larger than what is typically found by cosmological simulations, suggesting that a population of intergalactic gas clumps with sub-kpc sizes may be missing within current numerical models.

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