2021MNRAS.502.2389L -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 502, 2389-2408 (2021/April-1)
Revisiting the gas kinematics in SSA22 Lyman-α Blob 1 with radiative transfer modelling in a multiphase, clumpy medium.
LI Z., STEIDEL C.C., GRONKE M. and CHEN Y.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present new observations of Lyman-α (Lyα) Blob 1 (LAB1) in the SSA22 protocluster region (z = 3.09) using the Keck Cosmic Web Imager and Keck Multi-object Spectrometer for Infrared Exploration. We have created a narrow-band Lyα image and identified several prominent features. By comparing the spatial distributions and intensities of Lyα and Hβ, we find that recombination of photo-ionized H I gas followed by resonant scattering is sufficient to explain all the observed Lyα/Hβ ratios. We further decode the spatially resolved Lyα profiles using both moment maps and radiative transfer modelling. By fitting a set of multiphase, 'clumpy' models to the observed Lyα profiles, we manage to reasonably constrain many parameters, namely the H I number density in the interclump medium (ICM), the cloud volume filling factor, the random velocity and outflow velocity of the clumps, the H I outflow velocity of the ICM, and the local systemic redshift. Our model has successfully reproduced the diverse Lyα morphologies, and the main results are: (1) the observed Lyα spectra require relatively few clumps per line of sight as they have significant fluxes at the line centre; (2) the velocity dispersion of the clumps yields a significant broadening of the spectra as observed; (3) the clump bulk outflow can also cause additional broadening if the H I in the ICM is optically thick; (4) and the H I in the ICM is responsible for the absorption feature close to the Lyα line centre.
Abstract Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society
Journal keyword(s):
galaxies: evolution - galaxies: high-redshift - intergalactic medium - galaxies: kinematics and dynamics
Nomenclature:
Fig. 1, Table 2: [LSG2021] LAB1-cN (Nos c1-c3).
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