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利用合成观测分析宽吸收线对类星体红移测量的影响

Analysis of the impact of broad absorption lines on quasar redshift measurements with synthetic observations

Luz Ángela García, Paul Martini, Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales, Andreu Font-Ribera, Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Steve Ahlen, David Brooks, Axe… 展开作者

Luz Ángela García, Paul Martini, Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales, Andreu Font-Ribera, Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Steve Ahlen, David Brooks, Axel de la Macorra, Peter Doel, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Julien Guy, Theodore Kisner, Martin Landriau, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Jundan Nie, Claire Poppett, Gregory Tarlé, Zhimin Zhou

AI总结:

本文利用匹配DESI巡天观测的合成光谱,定量证明掩膜宽吸收线特征可使类星体红移误差降低约1%、灾难性误差减少约80%,建议将其纳入标准红移测定流程。

摘要:

准确的类星体分类和红移测量对于精密宇宙学实验日益重要。宽吸收线(BAL)特征存在于15-20%的类星体中,这些特征可能引入系统性红移误差,在极端情况下甚至导致错误分类。我们利用为匹配暗能量光谱仪(DESI)巡天观测而设计的合成光谱,定量研究了BAL特征对类星体分类和红移测量的影响。在五年的运行期间,DESI计划测量4000万个星系和类星体的光谱,其中包括近300万个类星体。我们的合成类星体光谱与DESI第一年观测的信噪比和红移分布相匹配,并且包含相同的合成类星体光谱,分别带有和不带有BAL特征。我们证明,对BAL特征所在位置进行掩膜处理可使红移误差降低约1%,并将灾难性红移误差的数量减少约80%。我们得出结论:识别并掩膜BAL吸收槽应成为DESI及其他大规模类星体光谱巡天中红移确定步骤的标准组成部分。

英文摘要:

Accurate quasar classifications and redshift measurements are increasingly important to precision cosmology experiments. Broad absorption line (BAL) features are present in 15-20\% of all quasars, and these features can introduce systematic redshift errors, and in extreme cases produce misclassifications. We quantitatively investigate the impact of BAL features on quasar classifications and redshift measurements with synthetic spectra that were designed to match observations by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. Over the course of five years, DESI aims to measure spectra for 40 million galaxies and quasars, including nearly three million quasars. Our synthetic quasar spectra match the signal-to-noise ratio and redshift distributions of the first year of DESI observations, and include the same synthetic quasar spectra both with and without BAL features. We demonstrate that masking the locations of the BAL features decreases the redshift errors by about 1\% and reduces the number of catastrophic redshift errors by about 80\%. We conclude that identifying and masking BAL troughs should be a standard part of the redshift determination step for DESI and other large-scale spectroscopic surveys of quasars.

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