Turner, Monica L. and Schaye, Joop and Crain, Robert A. and Rudie, Gwen and Steidel, Charles C. and Strom, Allison and Theuns, Tom (2017) A comparison of observed and simulated absorption from H I, C IV, and Si IV around z ≈ 2 star-forming galaxies suggests redshift–space distortions are due to inflows. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471 (1). pp. 690-705. ISSN 0035-8711. doi:10.1093/mnras/stx1616. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170911-124424108
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Abstract
We study H I and metal-line absorption around z ≈ 2 star-forming galaxies by comparing an analysis of data from the Keck Baryonic Structure Survey to mock spectra generated from the Evolution and Assembly of Galaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations. We extract sightlines from the simulations and compare the properties of the absorption by H I, C IV, and Si IV around simulated and observed galaxies using pixel optical depths. We mimic the resolution, pixel size, and signal-to-noise ratio of the observations, as well as the distributions of impact parameters and galaxy redshift errors. We find that the EAGLE reference model is in excellent agreement with the observations. In particular, the simulation reproduces the high metal-line optical depths found at small galactocentric distances, the optical depth enhancements out to impact parameters of 2 proper Mpc, and the prominent redshift–space distortions which we find are due to peculiar velocities rather than redshift errors. The agreement is best for halo masses ∼10^(12.0) M⊙, for which the observed and simulated stellar masses also agree most closely. We examine the median ion mass-weighted radial gas velocities around the galaxies, and find that most of the gas is infalling, with the infall velocity depending on halo rather than stellar mass. From this, we conclude that the observed redshift–space distortions are predominantly caused by infall rather than outflows.
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Additional Information: | © 2017 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. Accepted 2017 June 23. Received 2017 May 17; in original form 2017 February 28. Published: 30 June 2017. We would like to thank the anonymous referee for a constructive report that improved this article. This work used the DiRAC Data Centric system at Durham University, operated by the Institute for Computational Cosmology on behalf of the STFC DiRAC HPC Facility (www.dirac.ac.uk). This equipment was funded by BIS National E-infrastructure capital grant ST/K00042X/1, STFC capital grants ST/H008519/1 and ST/K00087X/1, STFC DiRAC Operations grant ST/K003267/1 and Durham University. DiRAC is part of the National E-Infrastructure. This work was supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), through VICI grant 639.043.409 and by the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007- 2013)/ERC Grant agreement 278594-GasAroundGalaxies. RAC is a Royal Society University Research Fellow. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Subject Keywords: | galaxies: formation – intergalactic medium – quasars: absorption lines | ||||||||||||||||||
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DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stx1616 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Official Citation: | Monica L. Turner, Joop Schaye, Robert A. Crain, Gwen Rudie, Charles C. Steidel, Allison Strom, Tom Theuns; A comparison of observed and simulated absorption from H I, C IV, and Si IV around z ≈ 2 star-forming galaxies suggests redshift–space distortions are due to inflows, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 471, Issue 1, 11 October 2017, Pages 690–705, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1616 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | ||||||||||||||||||
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