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在SSA22场中发现z = 3.3的阻尼Lya吸收体

Discovery of a Damped Lya Absorber at z = 3.3 along a galaxy sight-line in the SSA22 field

K. Mawatari, A. K. Inoue, K. Kousai, T. Hayashino, R. Cooke, J. X. Prochaska, T. Yamada, Y. Matsuda

摘要:

利用星系作为背景光源绘制Lya吸收谱线是研究阻尼Lya吸收体的一种新方法。我们报告了在SSA 22视场中用我们的甚大望远镜/可见光多目标摄谱仪测量获得的80个莱曼布雷克星系(LBG)光谱中发现的一个沿星系视线的干预z = 3.335 +- 0.007 DLA。测得的DLA中性氢(HI)柱密度为log(NHI/cm^{-2})= 21.68 +-0.17。扩展背景LBG上的DLA覆盖率> 70%(2 sigma),因此对DLA面积的保守约束为> 1 kpc ^2。我们对拥有这个DLA的对应星系的搜索得出的结论是,没有恒星形成率(SFR)大于几个Msun yr^{-1}的对应星系,排除了DLA气体云中的一个未被掩盖的剧烈恒星形成。我们还排除了DLA的宿主星系是Mstar > 5 x 10^{10} Msun的被动星系或E(B-V)> 2的严重尘埃遮蔽星系的可能性。DLA可能与光谱LBG的大规模过密度一致。DLA的出现率与类星体视线中发现的DLA的出现率一致。

英文摘要:

Using galaxies as background light sources to map the Lya absorption lines is a novel approach to study Damped Lya Absorbers (DLAs). We report the discovery of an intervening z = 3.335 +- 0.007 DLA along a galaxy sight-line identified among 80 Lyman Break Galaxy (LBG) spectra obtained with our Very Large Telescope/Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph survey in the SSA22 field. The measured DLA neutral hydrogen (HI) column density is log (NHI/cm^{-2}) = 21.68 +- 0.17. The DLA covering fraction over the extended background LBG is > 70% (2 sigma), yielding a conservative constraint on the DLA area of > 1 kpc^2. Our search for a counterpart galaxy hosting this DLA concludes that there is no counterpart galaxy with star formation rate (SFR) larger than a few Msun yr^{-1}, ruling out an unobscured violent star formation in the DLA gas cloud. We also rule out the possibility that the host galaxy of the DLA is a passive galaxy with Mstar > 5 x 10^{10} Msun or a heavily dust-obscured galaxy with E(B-V) > 2. The DLA may coincide with a large-scale overdensity of the spectroscopic LBGs. The occurrence rate of the DLA is compatible with that of DLAs found in QSO sight-lines.

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