Computer Science
Scientific paper
Dec 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999prama..53.1027k&link_type=abstract
Pramāna, Vol. 53, No. 6, p. 1027 - 1032
Computer Science
Galactic Halos: Chemistry
Scientific paper
The author haa tried to understand the recent observations related to metallicity in Ly-α forest clouds in the framework of the two component model. The model consists of mini-halos having circular velocities smaller than ≡55 km s-1, with no star formation and galactic halos with higher circular velocities ≤250 km s-1, having clouds, star formation and consequent metal enrichment. The author finds that even if the mini-halos were chemically enriched by an earlier generation of stars, to have [C/H] ≅ -2.5, the number of C IV lines with column density >1012cm-2, contributed by the mini-halos, at the redshift of 3, would be only about 10% of the total number of lines, for a chemical enrichment rate of (1+z)-3 in the galaxies. Recently reported absence of heavy element lines associated with most of the Ly-α lines with H I column density between 1013.5cm-2 and 1014cm-2 by Lu et al. (1998), if correct, gives an upper limit on [C/H] = -3.7, not only in the mini-halos, but also in the outer parts of galactic halos. However, the mean value of 7×10-3 for the column density ratio of C IV and H I, determined by Cowie and Songaila (1998) for low Ly-α optical depths, implies an abundance of [C/H] = -2.5 in mini-halos as well as most of the region in galactic halos. The redshift and column density distribution of C IV has been shown to be in reasonable agreement with the observations.
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