The Nature of Lya Blobs: Supernova-Dominated Primordial Galaxies

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2004-08-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408410v2

Astrophys.J. 613 (2004) L97-L100

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures, accepted fot publicatin in ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/425255

We consider a forming galaxy undergoing multitudinous supernova (SN) explosions, as a possible model of \lya blobs (LABs). For this purpose, an ultra--high resolution hydrodynamic simulation is performed using $1024^3$ grid points, where SN remnants are resolved with sufficient accuracy. It is found that multiple SN explosions produce kpc--size expanding hot bubbles, which drive cool, dense shells by strong shock. The colliding high--density cooling shells radiate intensive \lya emission, resulting in a high \lya luminosity of $\sim10^{43}$ erg s$^{-1}$, comparable to the observed level in LABs. Also, recently discovered bubbly features in some LABs are quite similar to the structure predicted in the present simulation. Furthermore, the result demonstrates that LABs are representative of evolving primordial galaxies; they could hold direct information on the early chemical enrichment of galaxies, contrary to present--day galaxies which have undergone intense recycling of interstellar matter, thus erasing most of the early chemical history. It turns out that the metal mixing proceeds in a very inhomogeneous fashion, so that there appears a large spread of metallicity, that is,$[{\rm Fe/H}] \approx 0 {\rm ~to} -5$ or $[{\rm O/H}] \approx 1 {\rm ~to} -4$. Hence, the early galactic chemical evolution may have proceeded in a different manner from that hitherto considered in one--zone models.

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