Continuum Emission by Cooling Clouds

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2007-11-17

arxiv.org/abs/0711.2698v2

Astrophys.J.690:82-88,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for Publication in ApJ. Many minor changes in the text. Main conclusions unaffected

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/690/1/82

The collapse of baryons into the center of a host dark matter halo is accompanied by radiation that may be detectable as compact (< 10 kpc) UV-continuum and Lyman Alpha (hereafter Lya) emission with Lya luminosities as high as ~1e42-1e43 erg/s in halos of mass M=1e11-10e12 solar masses. We show that the observed equivalent width (EW) of the Lya line emitted by these cooling clouds is EW 400 Angstrom (restframe). These luminosities and EWs are comparable to those detected in narrowband surveys for redshifted Lya emission. The rest-frame ultraviolet of Lya emitting cooling clouds radiation may be dominated by two-photon transitions from 2s->1s. The resulting spectrum can distinguish cooling clouds from a broad class of young star forming galaxies.

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