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宇宙氘丰度色散的演化

Evolution of dispersion in the cosmic deuterium abundance

Irina Dvorkin, Elisabeth Vangioni, Joseph Silk, Patrick Petitjean, Keith A. Olive

摘要:

氘是在大爆炸核合成过程中产生的,与其他轻稳定核不同,它只能在恒星内部通过聚变被破坏。本文利用真实的星系演化模型研究了星际介质中氘丰度及其色散的宇宙演化。我们发现,再现所观察到的金属丰度的模型与局域ISM和z ~ 3吸收线系统中氘丰度的观测是相容的。特别是,我们重现了低astration因素,我们归因于一个低的全球恒星形成效率。我们计算的氘丰度的分散所产生的不同结构的形成历史,在宇宙的不同部分。我们的模型还预测了氘和金属丰度之间的非常紧密的相关性,可用于测量原始氘丰度。

英文摘要:

Deuterium is created during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, and, in contrast to the other light stable nuclei, can only be destroyed thereafter by fusion in stellar interiors. In this paper we study the cosmic evolution of the deuterium abundance in the interstellar medium and its dispersion using realistic galaxy evolution models. We find that models that reproduce the observed metal abundance are compatible with observations of the deuterium abundance in the local ISM and z ~ 3 absorption line systems. In particular, we reproduce the low astration factor which we attribute to a low global star formation efficiency. We calculate the dispersion in deuterium abundance arising from different structure formation histories in different parts of the Universe. Our model also predicts an extremely tight correlation between deuterium and metal abundances which could be used to measure the primordial deuterium abundance.

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