Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-01-22
Astron.J. 117 (1999) 2063
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
37 pages, 16 figures, accepted to the Astronomical Journal
Scientific paper
10.1086/300829
Recent observations and theoretical calculations suggest that some QSO absorption line systems may be due to gas in small dark matter halos with circular velocities on the order of 30 km/s. Additional observational evidence suggests that, in general, many absorption line systems may also be multi-phase in nature. Thus, computing the absorption lines of mini-halos, in addition to providing signatures of small halos, is a natural way to explore multi-phase behavior. The state of gas in mini-halos is strongly affected by the background UV radiation field. To address this issue a code was developed that includes many of the chemical and radiative processes found in CLOUDY and also incorporates spherically symmetric multi-wavelength radiative transfer of an isotropic field, non-equilibrium chemistry, heating, cooling and self-consistent quasi hydro-static equilibrium gas dynamics. With this code detailed simulations were conducted of gas in mini-halos using different types of background spectra. From these simulations the absorption line signatures of the gas were computed and compared with a variety of observations: high redshift metal lines, He lines and low redshift metal line systems. Based on these results the mini-halo model absorption line signatures appear to be consistent with many current observations given a sufficiently soft spectrum.
Abel Tom
Kepner Jeremy
Spergel David
Tripp Todd
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