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红、蓝星系环星系介质的性质:COS-GASS +COS-Halos巡天的结果

The Properties of the Circumgalactic Medium in Red and Blue Galaxies: Results from the COS-GASS+COS-Halos Surveys

Sanchayeeta Borthakur, Timothy Heckman, Jason Tumlinson, Rongmon Bordoloi, Guinevere Kauffmann, Barbara Catinella, David Schiminovich, Romeel Dave, Sean M. Moran, Amelie Saintonge

摘要:

我们使用COS-GASS和COS-Halos巡天的综合数据来表征质量范围为$\rm~M_*\sim~10^{9.5-11.5}~M_{\odot} $的典型低红移星系周围的环银河系介质(CGM),并在一系列的碰撞参量延伸到刚刚超过晕维里半径($\rm~R_{vir}$)。我们发现Lyman~ $α$和Si III吸收体的等效宽度分布的径向尺度长度分别为0.9和0.4 $\rm~R_{vir}$。等效宽度的径向分布是相对均匀的蓝色星系,但高度斑块(低覆盖率)的红色星系。我们还发现Lyman~ $α$和Si III的等效宽度与星系的比恒星形成率(sSFR)有显著的正相关关系。我们发现一个令人惊讶的缺乏晕质量(维里速度)和莱曼~ $α$线的速度色散或速度偏移之间的相关性。Lyman~ $α$吸收器的速度偏移与速度色散之比的平均值为$\sim$ 4,这表明给定的视线与CGM中的动态相干结构相交,而不是与轨道云的海洋相交。的CGM的运动学性质是相似的蓝色和红色星系,虽然我们发现,一个显着更大的比例的蓝色星系有大的莱曼$α$速度偏移(>200公里秒$^{-1}$)。我们表明,如果CGM云代表未来恒星形成的燃料,我们的新结果可能意味着我们探测的星系质量范围内的特定恒星形成率大幅下降。

英文摘要:

We use the combined data from the COS-GASS and COS-Halos surveys to characterize the Circum-Galactic Medium (CGM) surrounding typical low-redshift galaxies in the mass range $\rm~M_*\sim~10^{9.5-11.5}~M_{\odot} $, and over a range of impact parameters extending to just beyond the halo virial radius ($\rm~R_{vir}$). We find the radial scale length of the distributions of the equivalent widths of the Lyman~$α$ and Si III absorbers to be 0.9 and 0.4 $\rm~R_{vir}$, respectively. The radial distribution of equivalent widths is relatively uniform for the blue galaxies, but highly patchy (low covering fraction) for the red galaxies. We also find that the Lyman~$α$ and Si III equivalent widths show significant positive correlations with the specific star-formation rate (sSFR) of the galaxy. We find a surprising lack of correlations between the halo mass (virial velocity) and either the velocity dispersions or velocity offsets of the Lyman~$α$ lines. The ratio of the velocity offset to the velocity dispersion for the Lyman~$α$ absorbers has a mean value of $\sim$ 4, suggesting that a given the line-of-sight is intersecting a dynamically coherent structure in the CGM rather than a sea of orbiting clouds. The kinematic properties of the CGM are similar in the blue and red galaxies, although we find that a significantly larger fraction of the blue galaxies have large Lyman~$α$ velocity offsets (>200 km s$^{-1}$). We show that - if the CGM clouds represent future fuel for star-formation - our new results could imply a large drop in the specific star-formation rate across the galaxy mass-range we probe.

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