arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv周末暂无论文更新,休息一下吧,周末愉快~~
arXiv 2205.08554astro-ph.GA
收藏

阻尼Lyman-α系统中恒星形成动力的HI解析

Resolving the HI in Damped Lyman-α systems that power star-formation

Rongmon Bordoloi, John M. O'Meara, Keren Sharon, Jane R. Rigby, Jeff Cooke, Ahmed Shaban, Mateusz Matuszewski, Luca Rizzi, Greg Doppmann, D. Christopher Martin,… 展开作者

Rongmon Bordoloi, John M. O'Meara, Keren Sharon, Jane R. Rigby, Jeff Cooke, Ahmed Shaban, Mateusz Matuszewski, Luca Rizzi, Greg Doppmann, D. Christopher Martin, Anna M. Moore, Patrick Morrissey, James D. Neill

摘要:

稠密的原子气体(主要是氢)的储存库,包含大约90%的红移为3的中性气体,占宇宙中重子总数的2- 3%。这些阻尼的莱曼- $α$系统(之所以这么叫是因为它们从内部和背景源中吸收莱曼- $α$光子)已经被研究了几十年,但只是通过背景类星体和伽马射线暴光谱中的吸收线来研究。这种笔形波束不限制系统的物理范围。在这里,我们报告了一个红移为2.7的明亮引力透镜星系的积分场光谱,其中有两个前景阻尼Lyman- $α$系统。这些系统在范围上是$>$ 238 $kpc^2$,中性氢的柱密度在$<$ 3 kpc尺度上变化超过一个数量级。平均柱密度为$10^{20.46}$ - $10^{20.84} cm^{-2}$,总质量为$> 5.5 \times 10^{8}$ - $1.4 \times 10^{9} M_{\odot}$,表明它们含有下一代恒星形成所必需的燃料,与相对大质量、低光度的原始星系在红移$>$ 2处一致。

英文摘要:

Reservoirs of dense atomic gas (primarily hydrogen), contain approximately 90 percent of the neutral gas at a redshift of 3, and contribute to 2-3 percent of the total baryons in the Universe. These damped Lyman-$α$ systems (so called because they absorb Lyman-$α$ photons from within and from background sources) have been studied for decades, but only through absorption lines present in the spectra of background quasars and gamma-ray bursts. Such pencil beams do not constrain the physical extent of the systems. Here, we report integral-field spectroscopy of a bright, gravitationally lensed galaxy at a redshift of 2.7 with two foreground damped Lyman-$α$ systems. These systems are $>$ 238 $kpc^2$ in extent, with column densities of neutral hydrogen varying by more than an order of magnitude on $<$ 3 kpc-scales. The mean column densities are $10^{20.46}$ - $10^{20.84} cm^{-2}$ and the total masses are $> 5.5 \times 10^{8}$ - $1.4 \times 10^{9} M_{\odot}$, showing that they contain the necessary fuel for the next generation of star formation, consistent with relatively massive, low-luminosity primeval galaxies at redshifts $>$ 2.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑