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The evolution of damped Ly-a absorbers: metallicities and star formation rates

机译:Damped Ly-A吸收器的演变:金属和星形成率

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Damped Lyman-a (DLA) and sub-DLA quasar absorption lines provide powerful probes of the evolution of metals, gas, and stars in galaxies One major obstacle in trying to understand the evolution of DLAs and sub-DLAs has been the small number of metallicity measurements at z < 1 5, an epoch spanning ~ 70% of the cosmic history. In recent surveys with the Hubble Space Telescope and Multiple Mirror Telescope, we have doubled the DLA Zn sample at z < 15 Combining our results with those at higher redshifts from the literature, we find that the global mean metallicity of DLAs does not rise to the Solar value at low redshifts. These surprising results appear to contradict the near-Solar mean metallicity observed for nearby (z ~ 0) galaxies and the predictions of cosmic chemical evolution models based on the global star formation history Finally, we discuss direct constraints on the star formation rates (SFRs) in the absorber galaxies from our deep Fabry-Perot Ly-a imaging study and other emission-line studies in the literature A large fraction of the observed heavy-element quasar absorbers at 0 <. z < 3.4 appear to have SFRs substantially below the global mean SFR, consistent with the low metallicities observed in the spectroscopic studies.
机译:Damped Lyman-A(DLA)和Sub-DLA Quasar吸收线提供了在Galaxies中的金属,天然气和星星的演变的强大探针试图了解DLAS和Sub-DLA的演变一直是少数Z <1 5的金属测量,一个跨越宇宙历史的70%的时代。在最近的哈勃太空望远镜和多镜望远镜的调查中,我们已经将DLA Zn样品加倍,将我们的结果与文献中的更高红移的结果相结合,我们发现DLA的全球平均金属不起作用低射频的太阳能值。这些令人惊讶的结果似乎与附近(Z〜0)星系观察到的近天太阳能平均金属相矛盾,以及基于全球星形成历史的宇宙化学进化模型的预测最后,我们讨论了星形成率的直接限制(SFR)在来自我们深的Fabry-Perot Ly-A成像研究和文献中的其他排放线研究中,在0℃下观察到的重元素Quasar吸收器的大部分偏差研究和其他排放线研究。 Z <3.4似乎具有基本上低于全局平均SFR的SFR,与光谱研究中观察到的低金属相一致。

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