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扩展螺旋星系晕中光电离云的大小和质量

On the Size and Mass of Photo-ionized Clouds in Extended Spiral Galaxy Halos

Julie D. Davis, Brian A. Keeney, Charles W. Danforth, John T. Stocke

摘要:

利用类星体视线的近距离三重态(“LBQS三重态”; Crighton et al. 2010)研究了附近晚型星系MGC-01-04-005($cz = 1865$ km/s)晕(碰撞参量= 65 kpc)中两个环星系中等(CGM)云的大小和质量。哈勃太空望远镜(HST)上的宇宙起源摄谱仪(COS)获得的远紫外光谱在其中两条视线上发现了莱曼$α$中的两个速度分量,分别为$\sim1830$和1900 km/s,要求最小横向云尺寸为$\geq10$ kpc。在第三条视线中的较高速度下,对CIV 1548吸收的一个合理但不确定的探测表明,该云的$\geq23$ kpc的下限甚至更大。使用各种组合的约束,包括光电离建模的一个吸收体,这两个云的质量下限的$\geq10^6$ M_太阳。在阿帕奇点天文台(APO)3.5米望远镜获得的MCG-01 - 04 -005的地面成像和长缝光谱发现它是一个相对正常的晚型星系,目前的恒星形成率(SFR)为每年$\sim0.01$ M_Sun。星系演化探测器(GALEX)测光发现,SFR只有几倍高,在过去的$10^8$ yrs. We的结论是,CGM云探测这些光谱是典型的,在碰撞参量为0.4-0.5 R_vir从一个相当典型的,非恒星爆发晚型星系,使这些大小和质量的结果应该是通用的这一类。因此,至少有一些CGM云是非常大和巨大的。

英文摘要:

The size and mass of two circum-galactic medium (CGM) clouds in the halo (impact parameter = 65 kpc) of a nearby late-type galaxy, MGC-01-04-005 ($cz = 1865$ km/s), are investigated using a close triplet of QSO sight lines (the "LBQS Triplet"; Crighton et al. 2010). Far ultraviolet spectra obtained with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) find two velocity components in Lyman $α$ at $\sim1830$ and 1900 km/s in two of these sight lines, requiring minimum transverse cloud sizes of $\geq10$ kpc. A plausible, but not conclusive, detection of CIV 1548 Å absorption at the higher velocity in the third sight line suggests an even larger lower limit of $\geq23$ kpc for that cloud. Using various combinations of constraints, including photo-ionization modeling for one absorber, lower limits on masses of these two clouds of $\geq10^6$ M_Sun are obtained. Ground-based imaging and long-slit spectroscopy of MCG -01-04-005 obtained at the Apache Point Observatory (APO) 3.5m telescope find it to be a relatively normal late-type galaxy with a current star formation rate (SFR) of $\sim0.01$ M_Sun per year. Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) photometry finds an SFR only a few times higher over the last $10^8$ yrs. We conclude that the CGM clouds probed by these spectra are typical in being at impact parameters of 0.4-0.5 R_vir from a rather typical, non-starbursting late-type galaxy so that these size and mass results should be generic for this class. Therefore, at least some CGM clouds are exceptionally large and massive.

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