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用Magellan FIRE近红外光谱研究z ~ 2发射线半导体的物理性质

Physical Properties of Emission-Line Galaxies at z ~ 2 from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy with Magellan FIRE

Daniel Masters, Patrick McCarthy, Brian Siana, Matthew Malkan, Bahram Mobasher, Hakim Atek, Alaina Henry, Crystal L. Martin, Marc Rafelski, Nimish P. Hathi, Cla… 展开作者

Daniel Masters, Patrick McCarthy, Brian Siana, Matthew Malkan, Bahram Mobasher, Hakim Atek, Alaina Henry, Crystal L. Martin, Marc Rafelski, Nimish P. Hathi, Claudia Scarlata, Nathaniel R. Ross, Andrew J. Bunker, Guillermo A. Blanc, Alejandro G. Bedregal, Alberto Dominguez, James Colbert, Harry Teplitz, Alan Dressler

摘要:

本文给出了用麦哲伦巴德望远镜上的FIRE光谱仪对26个发射线星系在z ~ 2处的近红外光谱测量结果。该样本是从WISP调查中选择的,该调查使用哈勃太空望远镜宽视场相机3的近红外棱镜来检测超过0.3 < z < 2.3的发射线星系。我们的FIRE跟踪光谱(R~5000)在1.0-2.5微米范围内可以详细测量z~2发射线星系的物理性质。样本的尘埃校正的恒星形成率范围为~5-100 M_sun yr-1。我们推导出样本的中值金属丰度为~0.45 Z_sun,估计的恒星质量范围为~10^8.5 - 10^9.5 M_sun。样品的平均电离参数通常比当地恒星形成星系的平均电离参数高得多。我们从FIRE样品中得到了合成光谱,并由此推断出典型的星云电子密度约为100-400 cm^-3。根据星系的位置和BPT图上的复合光谱,我们没有发现样品中有明显活动星系核活动的证据。在给定的[N II]/H-alpha下,大多数星系和复合星系在BPT图中向更高的[O III]/H-beta偏移,与z > 1恒星形成星系的其他观测结果一致,但从样品中得出的复合光谱并没有显示出[O III]/H-beta与[S II]/H-alpha图上的局部恒星形成序列的明显偏移。我们推断一个高的氮-氧丰度比的复合光谱,这可能有助于偏移的高红移星系从本地恒星形成序列中的[O III]/H-β与[N II]/H-α图。我们推测,氮丰度的升高可能是由于z~2的恒星爆发星系中大量的沃尔夫-拉叶星造成的。(节录)

英文摘要:

We present results from near-infrared spectroscopy of 26 emission-line galaxies at z ~ 2 obtained with the FIRE spectrometer on the Magellan Baade telescope. The sample was selected from the WISP survey, which uses the near-infrared grism of the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 to detect emission-line galaxies over 0.3 < z < 2.3. Our FIRE follow-up spectroscopy (R~5000) over 1.0-2.5 micron permits detailed measurements of physical properties of the z~2 emission-line galaxies. Dust-corrected star formation rates for the sample range from ~5-100 M_sun yr-1. We derive a median metallicity for the sample of ~0.45 Z_sun, and the estimated stellar masses range from ~10^8.5 - 10^9.5 M_sun. The average ionization parameters measured for the sample are typically much higher than what is found for local star-forming galaxies. We derive composite spectra from the FIRE sample, from which we infer typical nebular electron densities of ~100-400 cm^-3. Based on the location of the galaxies and composite spectra on BPT diagrams, we do not find evidence for significant AGN activity in the sample. Most of the galaxies as well as the composites are offset in the BPT diagram toward higher [O III]/H-beta at a given [N II]/H-alpha, in agreement with other observations of z > 1 star-forming galaxies, but composite spectra derived from the sample do not show an appreciable offset from the local star-forming sequence on the [O III]/H-beta versus [S II]/H-alpha diagram. We infer a high nitrogen-to-oxygen abundance ratio from the composite spectrum, which may contribute to the offset of the high-redshift galaxies from the local star-forming sequence in the [O III]/H-beta versus [N II]/H-alpha diagram. We speculate that the elevated nitrogen abundance could result from substantial numbers of Wolf-Rayet stars in starbursting galaxies at z~2. (Abridged)

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