THE EFFICIENCY OF STELLAR REIONIZATION: EFFECTS OF ROTATION, METALLICITY, AND INITIAL MASS FUNCTION
THE EFFICIENCY OF STELLAR REIONIZATION: EFFECTS OF ROTATION, METALLICITY, AND INITIAL MASS FUNCTION
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恒星再电离的效率:旋转、金属度和初始质量函数的影响
DOI:
10.1088/0004-637x/800/2/97
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2015
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通讯作者:
J. Michael Shull
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作者:
M. Topping;J. Michael Shull
We compute the production rate of photons in the ionizing Lyman continua (LyC) of H i (λ ⩽ 912 Å), He i (λ ⩽ 504 Å), and He ii (λ ⩽ 228 Å) using recent stellar evolutionary tracks coupled to a grid of non-LTE, line-blanketed WM-basic model atmospheres. The median LyC production efficiency is QLyC = (6 ± 2) × 1060 LyC photons per M☉ of star formation (range [3.1–9.4] × 1060), corresponding to a revised calibration of 1053.3 ± 0.2 photons s−1 per M☉ yr−1. Efficiencies in the helium continua are photons and photons at solar metallicity and larger at low metallicity. The critical star formation rate needed to maintain reionization against recombinations at z ≈ 7 is for fiducial values of the intergalactic medium (IGM) clumping factor CH ≈ 3 and LyC escape fraction fesc ≈ 0.2. The boost in LyC production efficiency is an important ingredient, together with metallicity, CH, and fesc, in assessing whether IGM reionization was complete by z ≈ 7. Monte Carlo sampled spectra of coeval starbursts during the first 5 Myr have intrinsic flux ratios of F(1500)/F(900) ≈ 0.4–0.5 and F(912−)/F(912+) ≈ 0.4–0.7 in the far-UV (1500 Å), the LyC (900 Å), and at the Lyman edge (912 Å). These ratios can be used to calibrate the LyC escape fractions in starbursts.
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10.1017/s1743921314004657
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2012-08
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
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J. Vink
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J. Vink
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10.1051/0004-6361/201117830
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2012
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arXiv: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
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A. Sander;W.-R. Hamann;H. Todt
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H. Todt
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6.5
作者:
A. Sander;H. Todt;R. Hainich;W.-R. Hamann
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W.-R. Hamann