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CLEAR:宇宙正午的发射线比率

CLEAR: Emission Line Ratios at Cosmic High Noon

Bren E. Backhaus, Jonathan R. Trump, Nikko J. Cleri, Raymond Simons, Ivelina Momcheva, Casey Papovich, Vicente Estrada-Carpenter, Steven L. Finkelstein, Jasleen… 展开作者

Bren E. Backhaus, Jonathan R. Trump, Nikko J. Cleri, Raymond Simons, Ivelina Momcheva, Casey Papovich, Vicente Estrada-Carpenter, Steven L. Finkelstein, Jasleen Matharu, Zhiyuan Ji, Benjamin Weiner, Mauro Giavalisco, Intae Jung

摘要:

利用哈勃空间望远镜WFC 3 G102和G141棱镜光谱仪测量了CANDELS Ly $α$再电离发射(CLEAR)巡天中533个星系在$z\sim1.5$处的静止-光学发射线比。我们比较了461个星系的$\frac{[OIII]}{Hβ}$与$\frac{[SII]}{(Hα+[NII])}$的“unVO 87”图和91个星系的$\frac{[OIII]}{Hb}$与$\frac{[NeIII]}{[OII]}$的“OHNO”图。unVO 87图不能有效地将活动星系核(AGN)和$[NeV]$源从恒星形成星系中分离出来,表明恒星形成星系的unVO 87性质随红移而演化,并与活动星系核在$z>1$的发射线特征重叠。OHNO图有效地将X射线活动星系核和发射$[NeV]$的星系与其余的星系群分开。发现$\frac{[OIII]}{Hβ}$谱线比与恒星质量显著反相关,与$\log(L_{Hβ})$显著相关,而$\frac{[SII]}{(Hα+[NII])}$与$\log(L_{Hβ})$显著反相关.与MAPPINGS~V光电离模型的比较表明,这些趋势与低质量和高SFR星系中较低的金属丰度和较高的电离度是一致的。除了与质量和SFR的相关性外,我们没有发现发射线比红移演化的证据。我们的结果表明,在詹姆斯·韦伯空间望远镜观测的高红移星系中,$\frac{[OIII]}{Hb}$与$\frac{[NeIII]}{[OII]}$的OHNO图将是活动星系核含量和气体状态的有用指示。

英文摘要:

We use Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 G102 and G141 grism spectroscopy to measure rest-optical emission-line ratios of 533 galaxies at $z\sim1.5$ in the CANDELS Ly$α$ Emission at Reionization (CLEAR) survey. We compare $\frac{[OIII]}{Hβ}$ vs. $\frac{[SII]}{(Hα+[NII])}$ as an "unVO87" diagram for 461 galaxies and $\frac{[OIII]}{Hb}$ vs. $\frac{[NeIII]}{[OII]}$ as an "OHNO" diagram for 91 galaxies. The unVO87 diagram does not effectively separate active galactic nuclei (AGN) and $[NeV]$ sources from star-forming galaxies, indicating that the unVO87 properties of star-forming galaxies evolve with redshift and overlap with AGN emission-line signatures at $z>1$. The OHNO diagram effectively separates X-ray AGN and $[NeV]$-emitting galaxies from the rest of the population. We find that the $\frac{[OIII]}{Hβ}$ line ratios are significantly anti-correlated with stellar mass and significantly correlated with $\log(L_{Hβ})$, while $\frac{[SII]}{(Hα+[NII])}$ is significantly anti-correlated with $\log(L_{Hβ})$. Comparison with MAPPINGS~V photoionization models indicates that these trends are consistent with lower metallicity and higher ionization in low-mass and high-SFR galaxies. We do not find evidence for redshift evolution of the emission-line ratios outside of the correlations with mass and SFR.Our results suggest that the OHNO diagram of $\frac{[OIII]}{Hb}$ vs. $\frac{[NeIII]}{[OII]}$ will be a useful indicator of AGN content and gas conditions in very high-redshift galaxies to be observed by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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