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从Pop III Galerkin中提升Lya和HeII 1640 A线通量:随机IMF采样和案例B的图解

Boosting Lya and HeII 1640A Line Fluxes from Pop III Galaxies: Stochastic IMF Sampling and Departures from Case-B

Lluís Mas-Ribas, Mark Dijkstra, Jaime E. Forero-Romero

摘要:

我们重新计算星云氢Lya和HeII 1640 A线强度的人口III星系,经历连续和爆发的恒星形成。我们专注于初始质量函数(IMF)的动机最近的理论研究,一般跨越较低的范围内的恒星质量比早期的作品。我们还考虑了情况B偏离和IMF的随机抽样。与之前的工作一致,我们发现偏离情况B可以将Lya通量增强几倍,但我们认为这种增强主要是由碰撞激发和电离驱动的,而不是由于n = 2态的光电离。氢原子。Lya通量对星系光谱高能端的敏感性增加,使其更容易受到IMF随机采样的影响。后者在预测的星云线通量中引入了一个分散体,该分散体围绕确定性值多达~4倍。相比之下,IMF的随机采样对新兴的莱曼-沃纳(LW)光子通量的影响较小。当情况B偏离和随机性效应相结合,星云线发射人口III星系可以达到一个数量级比预测的“标准”计算,不包括这些影响。这增强了利用JWST和大型地面望远镜等未来设施进行探测的前景。

英文摘要:

We revisit calculations of nebular hydrogen Lya and HeII 1640A line strengths for population III galaxies, undergoing continuous and bursts of star formation. We focus on initial mass functions (IMFs) motivated by recent theoretical studies, which generally span a lower range of stellar masses than earlier works. We also account for case-B departures and the stochastic sampling of the IMF. In agreement with previous works, we find that departures from case-B can enhance the Lya flux by a factor of a few, but we argue that this enhancement is driven mainly by collisional excitation and ionization, and not due to photoionization from the n = 2 state of atomic hydrogen. The increased sensitivity of the Lya flux to the high-energy end of the galaxy spectrum makes it more subject to stochastic sampling of the IMF. The latter introduces a dispersion in the predicted nebular line fluxes around the deterministic value by as much as a factor of ~4. In contrast, the stochastic sampling of the IMF has less impact on the emerging Lyman Werner (LW) photon flux. When case-B departures and stochasticity effects are combined, nebular line emission from population III galaxies can be up to one order of magnitude brighter than predicted by 'standard' calculations that do not include these effects. This enhances the prospects for detection with future facilities such as JWST and large, groundbased telescopes.

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