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红移6.4的贫金属阻尼Ly-alpha系统

A metal-poor damped Ly-alpha system at redshift 6.4

Eduardo Banados, Michael Rauch, Roberto Decarli, Emanuele P. Farina, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Bram P. Venemans, Fabian Walter, Robert A. Simcoe, J. Xavier Prochaska… 展开作者

Eduardo Banados, Michael Rauch, Roberto Decarli, Emanuele P. Farina, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Bram P. Venemans, Fabian Walter, Robert A. Simcoe, J. Xavier Prochaska, Thomas Cooper, Frederick B. Davies, Shi-Fan S. Chen

摘要:

我们确定了一个强大的Ly-alpha阻尼翼剖面的类星体P183+05在z=6.4386的频谱。考虑到在z=6.40392处检测到几条窄的金属吸收线,对吸收曲线最可能的解释是它是由于阻尼的Ly-alpha系统。然而,为了匹配数据,还需要星系际介质的贡献5-38%中性或类星体附近的额外较弱吸收体。这里介绍的吸收系统是目前已知的最远的阻尼Ly-alpha系统。我们估计HI柱密度($10^{20.68\pm0.25}\,$ cm $^{-2}$),金属丰度([O/H] $=-2.92\pm 0.32$),和相对化学丰度的系统一致的低质量星系在宇宙的第一个Gyr。这个天体是已知最贫金属的阻尼Ly-alpha系统之一,尽管它在大爆炸后仅被观测到约8.5亿年,但它的相对丰度并没有显示出第三星族恒星化学富集的特征。

英文摘要:

We identify a strong Ly-alpha damping wing profile in the spectrum of the quasar P183+05 at z=6.4386. Given the detection of several narrow metal absorption lines at z=6.40392, the most likely explanation for the absorption profile is that it is due to a damped Ly-alpha system. However, in order to match the data a contribution of an intergalactic medium 5-38% neutral or additional weaker absorbers near the quasar is also required. The absorption system presented here is the most distant damped Ly-alpha system currently known. We estimate an HI column density ($10^{20.68\pm0.25}\,$cm$^{-2}$), metallicity ([O/H]$=-2.92\pm 0.32$), and relative chemical abundances of a system consistent with a low-mass galaxy during the first Gyr of the universe. This object is among the most metal-poor damped Ly-alpha systems known and, even though it is observed only ~850 Myr after the big bang, its relative abundances do not show signatures of chemical enrichment by Population III stars.

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