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arXiv 2006.10065astro-ph.GAastro-ph.CO
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球状星团对宇宙再电离的贡献

The contribution of globular clusters to cosmic reionization

Xiangcheng Ma, Eliot Quataert, Andrew Wetzel, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Michael Boylan-Kolchin

摘要:

我们研究了来自真实环境反馈项目的两个宇宙学放大模拟中的电离光子逃逸分数(f_esc),这些星系在z=5时的晕质量为M_halo~10^10和10^11 M_sun(恒星质量为M*~10^7和10^9 M_sun)。这些模拟明确地解决了原球状星团(GC)的形成自洽,其中17-39%的恒星在恒星爆发期间形成在束缚星团中。使用电离辐射的后处理Monte Carlo辐射转移计算,我们计算了每个星系中超过1亿年的星爆期间形成的星团星和非星团星的fesc。我们发现,在一个恒星粒子的寿命的平均fesc遵循一个类似的分布,星团星和非星团星。在最初的几个百万年里,星系团往往具有较低的f_esc,这可能是因为它们优先在具有高光学深度的更极端的环境中形成;随着反馈开始破坏出生云,f_esc随后会增加。另一方面,形成于星团复合体之间或超泡前部压缩壳层中的非星团星也可以具有高的fesc。我们发现星团恒星的平均f_esc与非星团恒星相当。在我们的模拟中,这一结果在几个恒星形成模型中是稳健的。我们的研究结果表明,电离光子从原GC宇宙再电离的分数是可比的团簇形成的效率在高红移星系,因此原GC可能有助于一个可观的分数的光子,但不是占主导地位的来源再电离。

英文摘要:

We study the escape fraction of ionizing photons (f_esc) in two cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxies in the reionization era with halo mass M_halo~10^10 and 10^11 M_sun (stellar mass M*~10^7 and 10^9 M_sun) at z=5 from the Feedback in Realistic Environments project. These simulations explicitly resolve the formation of proto-globular clusters (GCs) self-consistently, where 17-39% of stars form in bound clusters during starbursts. Using post-processing Monte Carlo radiative transfer calculations of ionizing radiation, we compute f_esc from cluster stars and non-cluster stars formed during a starburst over ~100 Myr in each galaxy. We find that the averaged f_esc over the lifetime of a star particle follows a similar distribution for cluster stars and non-cluster stars. Clusters tend to have low f_esc in the first few Myrs, presumably because they form preferentially in more extreme environments with high optical depths; the f_esc increases later as feedback starts to disrupt the natal cloud. On the other hand, non-cluster stars formed between cluster complexes or in the compressed shell at the front of a superbubble can also have high f_esc. We find that cluster stars on average have comparable f_esc to non-cluster stars. This result is robust across several star formation models in our simulations. Our results suggest that the fraction of ionizing photons from proto-GCs to cosmic reionization is comparable to the cluster formation efficiency in high-redshift galaxies and hence proto-GCs likely contribute an appreciable fraction of photons but are not the dominant sources for reionization.

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