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类星体探测星系:I.红移约为0.2的气体吸积特征

Quasars Probing Galaxies: I. Signatures of Gas Accretion at Redshift Approximately 0.2

Stephanie H. Ho, Crystal L. Martin, Glenn G. Kacprzak, Christopher W. Churchill

摘要:

我们描述了运动学的环星系气体附近的银道面,结合新的测量星系旋转曲线和光谱的背景类星体。视线在目标星系的19- 93千秒差距内通过,通常检测到Mg II的吸收。Mg II的多普勒频移与银河系的自转符号相同,因此冷气体与银河系共同旋转。由于吸收跨越一个更广泛的速度范围比磁盘旋转可以解释,我们探索环星系运动学的简单模型。气体螺旋向内(靠近盘平面)提供了一个成功的描述的观察。附录描述了切向和径向气流的添加,并说明了圆盘倾斜的符号如何在投影的视线速度范围内产生可测试的差异。这种流入的解释意味着冷流盘仍然普遍下降到红移$z \approx 0.2$和延长恒星形成的气体供应磁盘。

英文摘要:

We describe the kinematics of circumgalactic gas near the galactic plane, combining new measurements of galaxy rotation curves and spectroscopy of background quasars. The sightlines pass within 19--93 kpc of the target galaxy and generally detect Mg II absorption. The Mg II Doppler shifts have the same sign as the galactic rotation, so the cold gas co-rotates with the galaxy. Because the absorption spans a broader velocity range than disk rotation can explain, we explore simple models for the circumgalactic kinematics. Gas spiraling inwards (near the disk plane) offers a successful description of the observations. An Appendix describes the addition of tangential and radial gas flows and illustrates how the sign of the disk inclination produces testable differences in the projected line-of-sight velocity range. This inflow interpretation implies that cold flow disks remain common down to redshift $z \approx 0.2$ and prolong star formation by supplying gas to the disk.

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