Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-11-10
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 350 (2004) 879
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Included discussion+figure on the clustering properties of LBGs. other minor changes. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07690.x
We study the effect of galactic outflows on the Lya forest. The winds are modelled as fully ionised spherical bubbles centered around galactic haloes. The observed flux probability distribution and flux power spectrum limit the volume filling factor of bubbles to be less than 10%. We have compared the mean flux as a function of distance from haloes with the Adelberger etal (ASSP) measurement. A model with bubbles of constant radius of 1.5Mpc/h surrounding the most massive haloes matches the high transmissivity at separations <0.5Mpc/h, but the increase of the transmissivity at small scales is more gradual than observed. At separations <0.5Mpc/h, our estimate of the cosmic variance error is $\Delta F\sim 0.3$, 30% higher than that of ASSP. The difficulty in matching the rise in the transmissivity at small separations is caused by residual absorption of neutral hydrogen lying physically outside the bubbles but having a redshift position similar to the haloes. The flux level is thus sensitive to the amplitude of the coherent velocity shear near haloes which increases with halo mass in the simulation. A model where LBGs are starbursts in small mass haloes matches the observations with smaller bubble size than one where more massive haloes host the LBGs. A starburst model with a bubble radius of 1Mpc/h and a volume filling factor of 2% is consistent with the ASSP measurements at the 1-1.5$\sigma$ level. If this model is correct the sharp rise of the transmissivity at small separation in the ASSP sample is due to cosmic variance and is expected to become more moderate for a larger sample.
Desjacques Vincent
Haehnelt Martin G.
Nusser Adi
Stoehr Felix
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