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宇宙紫外重子调查(CUBS)IX:通过 O VI 吸收追踪恒星形成场矮星系周围富化的星系周与星系际介质

The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) IX: The enriched circumgalactic and intergalactic medium around star-forming field dwarf galaxies traced by O VI absorption

Nishant Mishra, Sean D. Johnson, Gwen C. Rudie, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Joop Schaye, Zhijie Qu, Fakhri S. Zahedy, Erin T. Boettcher, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Mandy C. Chen… 展开作者

Nishant Mishra, Sean D. Johnson, Gwen C. Rudie, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Joop Schaye, Zhijie Qu, Fakhri S. Zahedy, Erin T. Boettcher, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Mandy C. Chen, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Jenny E. Greene, Jennifer I-Hsiu Li, Zhuoqi Will Liu, Sebastian Lopez, Patrick Petitjean

AI总结:

本文基于 CUBS 数据通过 O VI 吸收线研究恒星形成矮星系周围的 CGM/IGM,发现低质量系统在 z≲1 时能有效将大量金属保留在附近的星系周与星系际介质中。

摘要:

恒星形成矮星系较浅的势阱使其周围的星系周与星系际介质(CGM/IGM)成为研究被认为调节星系演化的流入与流出的灵敏实验室。我们展示了来自宇宙紫外重子调查(CUBS)的类星体视线中的新吸收线测量,这些视线探测了投影距离 <300 kpc 范围内的 91 个恒星形成场矮星系,这些星系的中位恒星质量为 log M_star/M_sun ≈ 8.3,红移范围为 0.077 < z < 0.73。在此红移范围内,CUBS 类星体光谱覆盖了一系列跃迁,包括 H I、低和中等电离金属离子(如 C II、Si II、C III 和 Si III)以及高电离 O VI。这项 CUBS-Dwarfs 调查使得在具有类似离子覆盖的情况下,样本量比过去的矮星系 CGM/IGM 研究大 9 倍。我们发现矮星系周围低和中等电离金属吸收很少见,这与以往对本星系矮星系的调查一致。相比之下,高电离 O VI 在穿过矮星系位力半径的视线中常被观测到,并且在投影距离为位力半径的 1-2 倍处,O VI 探测率也不可忽略。基于这些测量,我们估计 CGM/IGM 中含 O VI 的相态占据了矮星系金属预算的主要份额。吸收运动学表明,含 O VI 气体中相对适中的部分在形式上是未受束缚的。这些结果共同表明,z≲1 的低质量系统有效地将相当大一部分金属保留在附近的 CGM 和 IGM 中。

英文摘要:

The shallow potential wells of star-forming dwarf galaxies make their surrounding circumgalactic and intergalactic medium (CGM/IGM) sensitive laboratories for studying the inflows and outflows thought to regulate galaxy evolution. We present new absorption-line measurements in quasar sightlines probing within projected distances of $<300$ kpc from 91 star-forming field dwarf galaxies with a median stellar mass of $\log{M_\star/\rm{M_\odot}} \approx 8.3$ at $0.077 < z < 0.73$ from the Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS). In this redshift range, the CUBS quasar spectra cover a suite of transitions including H I, low and intermediate metal ions (e.g., C II, Si II, C III, and Si III), and highly ionized O VI. This CUBS-Dwarfs survey enables constraints with samples 9$\times$ larger than past dwarf CGM/IGM studies with similar ionic coverage. We find that low and intermediate ionization metal absorption is rare around dwarf galaxies, consistent with previous surveys of local dwarfs. In contrast, highly ionized O VI is commonly observed in sightlines that pass within the virial radius of a dwarf, and O VI detection rates are non-negligible at projected distances of 1$-$2$\times$ the virial radius. Based on these measurements, we estimate that the O VI-bearing phase of the CGM/IGM accounts for a dominant share of the metal budget of dwarf galaxies. The absorption kinematics suggest that a relatively modest fraction of the O VI-bearing gas is formally unbound. Together, these results imply that low-mass systems at $z\lesssim 1$ effectively retain a substantial fraction of their metals within the nearby CGM and IGM.

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