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Lya吸收体与局域星系丝的关系

On the relation between Lya absorbers and local galaxy filaments

Sietske J. D. Bouma, Philipp Richter, Martin Wendt

摘要:

星系际介质(IGM)被认为包含了宇宙中的大多数重子,并追踪与星系相同的暗物质结构,形成细丝和片。Lya吸收体是IGM中性成分的样品,在低红移和高红移下已被广泛研究,但Lya吸收、星系和大尺度结构之间的确切关系在观测上没有很好的约束。在这项研究中,我们的目标是通过使用来自各种仪器的档案观测数据来表征在退行速度Delta v \leq 6700 km/s时Lya吸收体与附近过密宇宙结构(星系细丝)之间的关系。我们分析了587干预的Lya吸收器的302河外背景源与COS安装在HST的光谱。我们将吸收线信息与最初由Courtois等人(2013年)绘制的五个局部星系细丝的星系数据相结合。沿着靠近灯丝的91条视线,我们识别出215(227)个Lya吸收系统(组件)。其中,74个Lya系统在位置和速度上与星系细丝对齐,表明这些吸收体和星系追踪相同的大尺度结构。顺时针排列的Lya吸收体具有比z=0时的一般Lya群体高约90%的入射率(对于log N HI \geq 13.2,dN/dz=189)和略微较浅的柱密度分布函数斜率(-β = -1.47),反映了细丝的物质过密度。最强的Lya吸收体优先发现在星系附近或靠近灯丝的轴,尽管在这种关系中存在大量的散射。我们的样本的吸收器集群更强烈地围绕灯丝轴比随机分布的样本会做(由KS测试证实),但集群信号是不太明显,比在灯丝的星系。

英文摘要:

The intergalactic medium (IGM) is believed to contain the majority of baryons in the universe and to trace the same dark matter structure as galaxies, forming filaments and sheets. Lya absorbers, which sample the neutral component of the IGM, have been extensively studied at low and high redshift, but the exact relation between Lya absorption, galaxies and the large-scale structure is observationally not well-constrained. In this study, we aim at characterising the relation between Lya absorbers and nearby overdense cosmological structures (galaxy filaments) at recession velocities Delta v \leq 6700 km/s by using archival observational data from various instruments. We analyse 587 intervening Lya absorbers in the spectra of 302 extragalactic background sources obtained with the COS installed on the HST. We combine the absorption-line information with galaxy data of five local galaxy filaments originally mapped by Courtois et al. (2013). Along the 91 sightlines that pass close to a filament, we identify 215 (227) Lya absorption systems (components). Among these, 74 Lya systems are aligned in position and velocity with the galaxy filaments, indicating that these absorbers and the galaxies trace the same large-scale structure. The filament-aligned Lya absorbers have a ~90 percent higher rate of incidence (dN/dz=189 for log N HI \geq 13.2) and a mildly shallower slope (-beta = -1.47) of the column density distribution function than the general Lya population at z=0, reflecting the filaments' matter overdensity. The strongest Lya absorbers are preferentially found near galaxies or close to the axis of a filament, although there is substantial scatter in this relation. Our sample of absorbers clusters more strongly around filament axes than a randomly distributed sample would do (as confirmed by a KS test), but the clustering signal is less pronounced than for the galaxies in the filaments.

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