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用阻尼Lyman- $α$吸收光谱探测矮星系的宇宙时间集合

Probing the assembly of dwarf galaxies through cosmic time with damped Lyman-$α$ absorption spectroscopy

Myoungwon Jeon, Gurtina Besla, Volker Bromm

摘要:

利用宇宙流体动力学模拟研究了一个富含气体的矮星系的吸收特征。我们的目标是探索在宇宙时间内,是否有可能检测到目前已知的最低质量矮星系(M_star~10^6太阳质量,M_halo=4x10^9太阳质量)的祖先是阻尼莱曼α吸收体(DLAs)。我们跟踪一个单一的矮星系的演化,预先选择包含DLAs,从第一个无金属的时代,所谓的人口~III(Pop~III),恒星,到z=0,从而使我们能够研究与模拟星系相关的DLAs的金属富集历史。我们发现,模拟矮星的祖先预计将被视为他们的大部分演化的DLAs被污染的正常,人口~II,恒星。另一方面,DLAs仅由Pop~III星富集金属的时间段可能非常短暂,仅限于高红移z~6。矮星对外部紫外线辐射背景的敏感性使它们只能在中心保留中性气体(几个~100 pc)。这导致模拟的矮星被观察为DLA的概率很小。这项研究表明,DLA不太可能存在于能够容纳中性气体的最低质量矮星(M_halo~ 4x10^9太阳质量)中,低于该质量的矮星不太可能存在中性气体。然而,这项研究确实说明,当被检测到时,吸收线提供了一种强有力的方法来探测最小矮星系内部的ISM条件,在中等到高的红移。

英文摘要:

We investigate the absorption features associated with a gas-rich dwarf galaxy using cosmological hydrodynamics simulations. Our goal is to explore whether the progenitors of the lowest mass dwarf galaxies known to harbor neutral hydrogen today (M_star~10^6 solar mass, M_halo=4x10^9 solar mass) could possibly be detected as Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers (DLAs) over cosmic time. We trace the evolution of a single dwarf galaxy, pre-selected to contain DLAs, from the era of the first metal-free, so-called Population~III (Pop~III), stars, down to z=0, thus allowing us to study the metal enrichment history of DLAs associated with the simulated galaxy. We find that the progenitors of the simulated dwarf are expected to be seen for most of their evolution as DLAs that are contaminated by normal, Population~II, stars. The time period during which DLAs are only metal-enriched by Pop~III stars, on the other hand, is likely very brief, confined to high redshifts, z~6. The susceptibility of the dwarfs to the external UV radiation background allows them to preserve neutral gas only at the centre (a few ~100 pc). This results in a small probability that the simulated dwarf would be observed as a DLA. This study suggests that DLAs are unlikely to be hosted in the lowest mass dwarfs that can harbor neutral gas (M_halo~ 4x10^9 solar mass), below which neutral gas is unlikely to exist. However, this study does illustrate that, when detected, absorption lines provide a powerful method for probing ISM conditions inside the smallest dwarf galaxies at intermediate to high redshifts.

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