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Lyman Alpha和MgII作为Galerkin及其环境的探针

Lyman Alpha and MgII as Probes of Galaxies and their Environments

Luke A. Barnes, Thibault Garel, Glenn G. Kacprzak

摘要:

Lyα发射、Lyα吸收和MgII吸收是中性氢的强有力的示踪剂。氢是宇宙中最丰富的元素,通过气体吸积和流出,在星系形成中起着核心作用,同时也是分子云的前身,恒星形成的场所。由于中性氢的21 cm发射只能在局部宇宙中直接观察到,我们依赖于Lyα发射,Lyα和MgII吸收来探测驱动星系演化的物理学。此外,这些示踪剂对覆盖星际介质、环星系介质和星系间介质的一系列氢密度敏感,为研究知之甚少的区域的气体物理提供了宝贵的手段。在高红移,Lyα发射线搜索已经发现了数千个z = 7的恒星形成星系。大的Lyα散射截面使得这条线的观测对星系外非常弥散的气体非常敏感。从类星体和GRB光谱中的阻尼Lyα吸收线和MgII双峰的吸收,我们还知道了另外几千个高红移星系。特别是MgII,探测了在各种环境和红移(0.1 < z < 6.3)中星系晕内富含金属的中性气体,包括所谓的红移沙漠。本文综述了Lyα发射、Lyα和MgII吸收的观测和理论模型在星系形成和演化背景下对星际、环星系和星系间介质的认识。

英文摘要:

Lyα emission, Lyα absorption and MgII absorption are powerful tracers of neutral hydrogen. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and plays a central role in galaxy formation via gas accretion and outflows, as well as being the precursor to molecular clouds, the sites of star formation. Since 21cm emission from neutral hydrogen can only be directly observed in the local universe, we rely on Lyα emission, and Lyα and MgII absorption to probe the physics that drives galaxy evolution at higher redshifts. Furthermore, these tracers are sensitive to a range of hydrogen densities that cover the interstellar medium, the circumgalactic medium and the intergalactic medium, providing an invaluable means of studying gas physics in regimes where it is poorly understood. At high redshift, Lyα emission line searches have discovered thousands of star-forming galaxies out to z = 7. The large Lyα scattering cross-section makes observations of this line sensitive to even very diffuse gas outside of galaxies. Several thousand more high-redshift galaxies are known from damped Lyα absorption lines and absorption by the MgII doublet in quasar and GRB spectra. MgII, in particular, probes metal-enriched neutral gas inside galaxy haloes in a wide range of environments and redshifts (0.1 < z < 6.3), including the so-called redshift desert. Here we review what observations and theoretical models of Lyα emission, Lyα and MgII absorption have told us about the interstellar, circumgalactic and intergalactic medium in the context of galaxy formation and evolution.

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