Neutral CGM as damped Ly α absorbers at high redshift
Neutral CGM as damped Ly α absorbers at high redshift
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中性 CGM 作为高红移处的阻尼 Lyα 吸收体
DOI:
10.1093/mnras/stab2240
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Kereš, Dušan
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作者:
Stern, Jonathan;Sternberg, Amiel;Faucher-Giguère, Claude-André;Hafen, Zachary;Fielding, Drummond;Quataert, Eliot;Wetzel, Andrew;Anglés-Alcázar, Daniel;El-Badry, Kareem;Kereš, Dušan
Recent searches for the hosts ofz∼ 4 damped Ly α absorbers (DLAs) have detected bright galaxies at distances of tens of kpc from the DLA. Using the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom simulations, we argue that these relatively large distances are due to a predominantly cool and neutral inner circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding high-redshift galaxies. The inner CGM is cool because of the short cooling time of hot gas inhaloes, which implies that accretion and feedback energy are radiated quickly, while it is neutral due to high volume densities and column densities at high redshift that shield cool gas from photoionization. Our analysis predicts large DLA covering factors () out to impact parameters ∼0.3[(1 +z)/5]3/2Rvirfrom the central galaxies atz≳ 1, equivalent to a proper distance of(RvirandM12are the halo virial radius and mass in units of, respectively). This implies that DLA covering factors atz∼ 4 may be comparable to unity out to a distance ∼10 times larger than stellar half-mass radii. A predominantly neutral inner CGM in the early universe suggests that its mass and metallicity can be directly constrained by absorption surveys, without resorting to the large ionization corrections as required for ionized CGM.
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影响因子:
4.8
作者:
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通讯作者:
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4.8
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影响因子:
4.8
作者:
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影响因子:
4.8
作者:
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通讯作者:
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影响因子:
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