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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 508, 期 4, 页码 4938-4951出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2896
关键词
quasars: absorption lines
资金
- American Association of University Women (AAUW)
- National Science Foundation [1517816]
- Australian Research Council [DP170103470]
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) [CE170100013]
- Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades (MICIU/FEDER) [PGC2018-094975-C21]
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1517816] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
In this study, adaptive mesh refinement hydrodynamic cosmological simulations were used to generate synthetic quasar absorption-line spectra of different galaxies. By analyzing these simulated spectra, it was found that global metallicity measurements from quasar absorption line studies capture the average metallicity and ionization parameters in systems with substantial spread in gas properties.
We used adaptive mesh refinement hydrodynamic cosmological simulations of a z = 1 Milky Way-type galaxy and a z = 0 Dwarf galaxy and generated synthetic quasar absorption-line spectra of their circumgalactic medium (CGM). Our goal is to assess whether standard observational spectroscopic analysis methods accurately reproduce intrinsic column densities, metallicities [Si/H], and hydrogen densities n(H), in simulated absorption-line systems. Without knowledge of the intrinsic simulated properties (blind study), we analysed synthetic COS and HIRES spectra with fixed S/N = 30 to determine the column densities, metallicity, and n(H), using Voigt profile fitting combined with Markov chain Monte Carlo single-phase cloudy modelling techniques. To quantify the simulated absorbing gas properties, we objectively determined which gas cells along a line of sight (LOS) contribute to detected absorption in the spectra and adopt the unweighted geometric mean of these properties. For this pilot study, we performed this experiment for five LOS in the two simulated galaxies. We found an average agreement between the 'observed' and intrinsic metallicity overestimated within 0.8 sigma or 0.2 dex for the 'Milky Way' and overestimated within 1.4 sigma or 0.2 dex for the Dwarf galaxy. We found that the spectroscopically-derived n(H) are underestimated within 0.8 sigma or 0.4 dex of the intrinsic n(H) for the 'Milky Way' and overestimated within 0.3 sigma or 0.3 dex for the Dwarf galaxy. The overall agreement suggests that, for single-phase ionization modelling of systems where there is substantial spread in gas properties, global metallicity measurements from quasar absorption line studies are capturing the average metallicity and ionization parameters.
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