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计算机上的宇宙再电离。高红移星系中的紫外连续谱斜率和尘埃不透明度

Cosmic Reionization On Computers. Ultraviolet Continuum Slopes and Dust Opacities in High Redshift Galaxies

Zimu Khakhaleva-Li, Nickolay Y. Gnedin

摘要:

我们比较了宇宙再电离计算机(CROC)计划中的模型星系的恒星星族的性质与现有的紫外和红外数据。由于CROC模拟不直接遵循宇宙尘埃,我们采用了两种变体的尘埃遵循金属的尘埃填充模型星系的尘埃。利用尘埃辐射转移程序,我们计算了模拟星系的合成恒星光谱、紫外连续谱斜率和红外辐射通量。我们发现,模拟结果一般与观测测量结果相匹配,但可能并不完全详细。这些差异似乎表明,我们采用的粉尘跟随金属ansatzes是不够的。虽然与现有数据的差异是微不足道的,但未来的JWST数据将具有更高的精度,使理论和观测之间的任何暂定差异都非常显着。因此,为了充分利用JWST观测的精度,可能需要对尘埃的形成、演化和破坏进行完全动力学建模。

英文摘要:

We compare the properties of stellar populations of model galaxies from the Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) project with the exiting UV and IR data. Since CROC simulations do not follow cosmic dust directly, we adopt two variants of the dust-follows-metals ansatz to populate model galaxies with dust. Using the dust radiative transfer code Hyperion, we compute synthetic stellar spectra, UV continuum slopes, and IR fluxes for simulated galaxies. We find that the simulation results generally match observational measurements, but, perhaps, not in full detail. The differences seem to indicate that our adopted dust-follows-metals ansatzes are not fully sufficient. While the discrepancies with the exiting data are marginal, the future JWST data will be of much higher precision, rendering highly significant any tentative difference between theory and observations. It is, therefore, likely, that in order to fully utilize the precision of JWST observations, fully dynamical modeling of dust formation, evolution, and destruction may be required.

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