温暖的环银河系介质:10^5-6 K气体与单个星系晕或整个星系团有关?
The Warm Circum-Galactic Medium: 10^5-6 K Gas Associated with a Single Galaxy Halo or with an Entire Group of Galaxies?
摘要:
在准备哈勃太空望远镜(HST)使用宇宙起源摄谱仪(COS)的观测项目时,所有具有高信噪比远紫外G130 M光谱的活动星系核目标的位置与从斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)光谱样本中均匀选择的大量低红移星系群的目录进行了交叉相关。仅在z = 0.1-0.2(其将OVI双峰置于峰值COS灵敏度的波长区域中)的那些组后面搜索靶标,我们仅鉴定出一个潜在S/N = 15-20靶标,FBQS 1010+3003。在其G130 M光谱z = 0.11326处发现了一个OVI吸收体,接近于z = 0.11685处的一小群明亮星系的红移。由于没有相关的Lyalpha吸收,因此这种吸收体的任何表征都必须是最小的;然而,OVI检测可能在T ~ 300,000 K的碰撞电离平衡中跟踪“温暖”气体。虽然这一发现与较冷的光电离云和较热的组内介质之间的界面气体是一致的,但它也可能是与最近的单个星系的环星系介质(CGM)相关的温暖的界面气体。在这种情况下,对星系分布的详细分析(完整到0.2 L*)强烈支持单个星系协会。这一分析强调了高S/N > 20 COS数据和该区域深星系红移调查的必要性,以便更严格地测试OVI吸收气体与星系群的关联。第23周期的HST/COS计划目前正在瞄准12个低红移星系群后面的10个紫外线明亮的活动星系核,以测试温暖的群体气体假设。
英文摘要:
In preparation for a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observing project using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS), the positions of all AGN targets having high-S/N far-UV G130M spectra were cross-correlated with a large catalog of low-redshift galaxy groups homogeneously selected from the spectroscopic sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Searching for targets behind only those groups at z = 0.1-0.2 (which places the OVI doublet in the wavelength region of peak COS sensitivity) we identified only one potential S/N = 15-20 target, FBQS 1010+3003. An OVI-only absorber was found in its G130M spectrum at z = 0.11326, close to the redshift of a foreground small group of luminous galaxies at z = 0.11685. Because there is no associated Lyalpha absorption, any characterization of this absorber is necessarily minimal; however, the OVI detection likely traces "warm" gas in collisional ionization equilibrium at T ~ 300,000 K. While this discovery is consistent with being interface gas between cooler, photoionized clouds and a hotter intra-group medium, it could also be warm, interface gas associated with the circum-galactic medium (CGM) of the single closest galaxy. In this case a detailed analysis of the galaxy distribution (complete to 0.2 L*) strongly favors the individual galaxy association. This analysis highlights the necessity of both high-S/N > 20 COS data and a deep galaxy redshift survey of the region in order to test more rigorously the association of OVI-absorbing gas with a galaxy group. A Cycle 23 HST/COS program currently is targeting 10 UV-bright AGN behind 12 low-redshift galaxy groups to test the warm, group gas hypothesis.
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