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arXiv 2005.11078astro-ph.GA
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一组发光z~6 Lyman Break半导体的平均吸收线谱

The Mean Absorption Line Spectra of a Selection of Luminous z~6 Lyman Break Galaxies

Yuichi Harikane, Nicolas Laporte, Richard S. Ellis, Yoshiki Matsuoka

摘要:

利用斯巴鲁和GTC望远镜上的FOCAS和OSIRIS摄谱仪观测了31个亮(MUV =-23)Lyman break星系的吸收线光谱。对于其中两个来源,我们提出了更长的曝光数据,在更高的光谱分辨率从ESO的X-射手摄谱仪。使用这些数据,我们证明了我们的低分辨率数据的叠加的实用性,以测量各种星际和恒星吸收线的深度探测覆盖分数的低电离气体和气相和恒星金属丰度接近宇宙再电离时代的结束。根据SiII 1260和CII 1334的最大吸收线深度,我们推断我们的样品的平均覆盖分数>0.85+/-0.16。这是大于使用类似的方法确定较低的光度星系在略低的红移,这表明最明亮的星系似乎有一个较低的逃逸分数比昏暗的星系,因此可能不会发挥突出的作用,在总结再电离。使用各种星际吸收线,我们推断气相金属丰度接近太阳的大量早期富集的指示。利用选定的恒星吸收线,我们使用在较低红移成功采用的技术,用一系列金属丰度模拟我们的光谱,并推导出恒星金属丰度为0.4 + 0.3/-0.1太阳,与最近在z~3-5发现的恒星质量-恒星金属丰度关系一致。我们讨论了这些金属丰度估计我们的发光星系的典型年龄的影响,并得出结论,我们的结果意味着初始恒星形成在红移z~10,与独立的分析早期对象。

英文摘要:

We examine the absorption line spectra of a sample of 31 luminous (M_UV=-23) Lyman break galaxies at redshift z~6 using data taken with the FOCAS and OSIRIS spectrographs on the Subaru and GTC telescopes. For two of these sources we present longer exposure data taken at higher spectral resolution from ESO's X-shooter spectrograph. Using these data, we demonstrate the practicality of stacking our lower resolution data to measure the depth of various interstellar and stellar absorption lines to probe the covering fraction of low ionization gas and the gas-phase and stellar metallicities near the end of the era of cosmic reionization. From maximum absorption line depths of SiII1260 and CII1334, we infer a mean covering fraction of >0.85+/-0.16 for our sample. This is larger than that determined using similar methods for lower luminosity galaxies at slightly lower redshifts, suggesting that the most luminous galaxies appear to have a lower escape fraction than fainter galaxies, and therefore may not play a prominent role in concluding reionization. Using various interstellar absorption lines we deduce gas-phase metallicities close to solar indicative of substantial early enrichment. Using selected stellar absorption lines, we model our spectra with a range of metallicities using techniques successfully employed at lower redshift and deduce a stellar metallicity of 0.4 +0.3/-0.1 solar, consistent with the stellar mass - stellar metallicity relation recently found at z~3-5. We discuss the implications of these metallicity estimates for the typical ages of our luminous galaxies and conclude our results imply initial star formation at redshifts z~10, consistent with independent analyses of earlier objects.

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