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环银河系介质金属线辐射的经验约束预测

Empirically Constrained Predictions for Metal-Line Emission from the Circumgalactic Medium

Lauren Corlies, David Schiminovich

摘要:

环星系介质(CGM)仍然是星系中最不受约束的组成部分之一,因此在推进星系形成理论方面具有重要的潜力。在这项工作中,我们改变了河外紫外线背景的高分辨率宇宙学模拟的银河系般的星系,并研究在CGM的金属的吸收和发射特性的影响。我们发现,减少类星体背景带来的柱密度预测与最近的数据更好地吻合。类似地,当将气体的观测导出的物理性质与模拟进行比较时,我们发现模拟气体的温度总是高出约0.5 dex。因此,从根本上不同的气体可以产生类似的柱密度。然而,发射图可以为视线柱密度提供补充信息,以更好地导出气体性质。从模拟中,我们发现,最亮的发射是不太敏感的河外背景,它密切遵循的基本结构的晕。随着星系从z=1发展到z=0,大多数气体过渡到更热,更扩散的阶段,这变得越来越真实。对于最亮的离子(CIII,CIV,OVI),可检测的发射可以在z=0时延伸到120 kpc。最后,分辨率是一个限制因素,我们可以从排放观测得出的结论,但与中等分辨率和合理的检测限,即将到来的仪器应该对CGM的物理特性的限制。

英文摘要:

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) remains one of the least constrained components of galaxies and as such has significant potential for advancing galaxy formation theories. In this work, we vary the extragalactic ultraviolet background for a high-resolution cosmological simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy and examine the effect on the absorption and emission properties of metals in the CGM. We find that a reduced quasar background brings the column density predictions into better agreement with recent data. Similarly, when the observationally derived physical properties of the gas are compared to the simulation, we find that the simulation gas is always at temperatures approximately 0.5 dex higher. Thus, similar column densities can be produced from fundamentally different gas. However, emission maps can provide complementary information to the line-of-sight column densities to better derive gas properties. From the simulations, we find that the brightest emission is less sensitive to the extragalactic background and that it closely follows the fundamental filamentary structure of the halo. This becomes increasingly true as the galaxy evolves from z=1 to z=0 and the majority of the gas transitions to a hotter, more diffuse phase. For the brightest ions (CIII, CIV, OVI), detectable emission can extend as far as 120 kpc at z=0. Finally, resolution is a limiting factor for the conclusions we can draw from emission observations but with moderate resolution and reasonable detection limits, upcoming instrumentation should place constraints on the physical properties of the CGM.

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