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利用星系的物理和Ly $α$发射特性预测星系的LyC发射

Predicting LyC emission of galaxies using their physical and Ly$α$ emission properties

Moupiya Maji, Anne Verhamme, Joakim Rosdahl, Thibault Garel, Jeremy Blaizot, Valentin Mauerhofer, Marta Pittavino, Maria-Pia Victoria Feser, Mathieu Chuniaud, T… 展开作者

Moupiya Maji, Anne Verhamme, Joakim Rosdahl, Thibault Garel, Jeremy Blaizot, Valentin Mauerhofer, Marta Pittavino, Maria-Pia Victoria Feser, Mathieu Chuniaud, Taysun Kimm, Harley Katz, Martin Haehnelt

摘要:

理解宇宙再电离的来源和过程的主要困难在于,不可能直接探测那个时期的电离莱曼连续统(LyC)辐射,因为这些光子已经被IGM中的中性氢吸收了。因此,必须建立一个模型,使用星系在再电离时代的其他属性来准确预测LyC发射。近年来的研究表明,星系的LyC发射可能与它们的Lya发射相关。在这里,我们通过分析SPHINX宇宙学模拟中高z的数千个星系来研究这种相关性。我们用Lya辐射转移程序RASCAS对这些星系进行了后处理,并分析了Lya与LyC的联系。我们发现,Lya和LyC光度彼此强烈相关,虽然分散。在最亮的Lya发射体(> $10^{41}$ erg/s)中,Lya和LyC逃逸分数之间存在正相关性,与最近的观测研究相似。然而,当我们还包括较暗的Lya发射体(LAEs)时,相关性消失,这表明观察到的关系可能是由选择效应驱动的。我们还发现明亮的LAE是主要的贡献者再电离($> 10^{40}$ erg/s星系贡献$> 90\%$的LyC发射)。最后,我们建立预测模型,使用多元线性回归,我们使用模拟星系的物理和Lya属性来预测其固有的和逃逸的LyC光度具有很高的准确度。我们发现,最重要的星系属性来预测逃逸的LyC光度的星系逃逸的Lya光度,气体质量,气体金属丰度,和SFR。这些模型对于预测星系的LyC发射非常有用,并且可以帮助我们确定再电离的来源。

英文摘要:

The primary difficulty in understanding the sources and processes that powered cosmic reionization is that it is not possible to directly probe the ionizing Lyman Continuum (LyC) radiation at that epoch as those photons have been absorbed by the intervening neutral hydrogen in the IGM on their way to us. It is therefore imperative to build a model to accurately predict LyC emission using other properties of galaxies in the reionization era. In recent years, studies have shown that the LyC emission from galaxies may be correlated to their Lya emission. Here, we study this correlation by analyzing thousands of galaxies at high-z in the SPHINX cosmological simulation. We post-process these galaxies with the Lya radiative transfer code RASCAS and analyze the Lya - LyC connection. We find that the Lya and LyC luminosities are strongly correlated with each other, although with dispersion. There is a positive correlation between Lya and LyC escape fractions in the brightest Lya emitters (>$10^{41}$ erg/s), similar to the recent observational studies. However, when we also include fainter Lya emitters (LAEs), the correlation disappears, which suggests that the observed relationship may be driven by selection effects. We also find that bright LAEs are dominant contributors to reionization ($> 10^{40}$ erg/s galaxies contribute $> 90\%$ of LyC emission). Finally, we build predictive models using multivariate linear regression where we use the physical and the Lya properties of simulated galaxies to predict their intrinsic and escaping LyC luminosities with a high degree of accuracy. We find that the most important galaxy properties to predict the escaping LyC luminosity of a galaxy are its escaping Lya luminosity, gas mass, gas metallicity, and SFR. These models can be very useful to predict LyC emissions from galaxies and can help us identify the sources of reionization.

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