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第一个星系的光谱演化。III。具有莱曼连续泄漏的再电离时期星系的詹姆斯韦伯空间望远镜模拟光谱

The spectral evolution of the first Galaxies. III. Simulated James Webb Space Telescope spectra of reionization-epoch galaxies with Lyman continuum leakage

E. Zackrisson, C. Binggeli, K. Finlator, N. Y. Gnedin, J. -P. Paardekooper, I. Shimizu, A. K. Inoue, H. Jensen, G. Micheva, S. Khochfar, C. Dalla Vecchia

摘要:

使用四个不同的宇宙学模拟套件,我们生成合成光谱的星系不同莱曼连续逃逸分数(fesc)在红移z=7-9,在休息帧的波长范围内相关的詹姆斯韦伯太空望远镜(JWST)NIRSpec仪器。通过研究现实的恒星形成历史和金属丰度分布的EW(Hb)-β图(以前提出的一种工具,用于识别星系具有非常高的fesc)的影响,我们发现,这些影响都不可能危及识别极端莱曼连续泄漏的星系。根据我们的模型,我们预计基本上所有z=7-9的星系,其静止坐标系EW(Hb)< 30 μ m,fesc>0.5。关于恒星星族的电离通量或z>6星系的尘埃性质的错误假设原则上会使选择产生偏差,但这种类型的实质性模型缺陷同时也会显示出它们在EW(Hb)-β图中观测到的z>6星系分布与模拟的z>6星系分布之间的偏移。这样的偏移将允许这些观测值的JWST/NIRSpec测量作为进一步模型改进的输入。

英文摘要:

Using four different suites of cosmological simulations, we generate synthetic spectra for galaxies with different Lyman continuum escape fractions (fesc) at redshifts z=7-9, in the rest-frame wavelength range relevant for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRSpec instrument. By investigating the effects of realistic star formation histories and metallicity distributions on the EW(Hb)-beta diagram (previously proposed as a tool for identifying galaxies with very high fesc), we find that neither of these effects are likely to jeopardize the identification of galaxies with extreme Lyman continuum leakage. Based on our models, we expect essentially all z=7-9 galaxies that exhibit rest-frame EW(Hb)< 30 Å to have fesc>0.5. Incorrect assumptions concerning the ionizing fluxes of stellar populations or the dust properties of z>6 galaxies can in principle bias the selection, but substantial model deficiencies of this type will at the same time reveal themselves as an offset between the observed and simulated distribution of z>6 galaxies in the EW(Hb)-beta diagram. Such offsets would thereby allow JWST/NIRSpec measurements of these observables to serve as input for further model refinement.

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