Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-12-24
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
18 pages, 16 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Scientific paper
We study the effect of local stellar radiation and UVB on the physical properties of DLAs and LLSs at z=3 using cosmological SPH simulations. We post-process our simulations with the ART code for radiative transfer of local stellar radiation and UVB. We find that the DLA and LLS cross sections are significantly reduced by the UVB, whereas the local stellar radiation does not affect them very much except in the low-mass halos. This is because clumpy high-density clouds near young star clusters effectively absorb most of the ionizing photons from young stars. We also find that the UVB model with a simple density threshold for self-shielding effect can reproduce the observed column density distribution function of DLAs and LLSs very well, and we validate this model by direct radiative transfer calculations of stellar radiation and UVB with high angular resolution. We show that, with a self-shielding treatment, the DLAs have an extended distribution around star-forming regions typically on ~ 10-30 kpc scales, and LLSs are surrounding DLAs on ~ 30-60 kpc scales. Our simulations suggest that the median properties of DLA host haloes are: Mh = 2.4*10^10 Msun, SFR = 0.3 Msun/yr, M* = 2.4*10^8 Msun, and Z/Zsun = 0.1. About 30 per cent of DLAs are hosted by haloes having SFR = 1 - 20 Msun/yr, which is the typical SFR range for LBGs. More than half of DLAs are hosted by the LBGs that are fainter than the current observational limit. Our results suggest that fractional contribution to LLSs from lower mass haloes is greater than for DLAs. Therefore the median values of LLS host haloes are somewhat lower with Mh = 9.6*10^9 Msun, SFR = 0.06 Msun/yr, M* = 6.5*10^7 Msun and Z/Zsun = 0.08. About 80 per cent of total LLS cross section are hosted by haloes with SFR < 1 Msun/yr, hence most LLSs are associated with low-mass halos with faint LBGs below the current detection limit.
Choi Jun-Hwan
Nagamine Kentaro
Yajima Hidenobu
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