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在一个星系中,在z = 2.3的密集紧区域内,强烈的恒星形成
A M Swinbank1, I Smail, S Longmore
1Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK. a.m.swinbank@dur.ac.uk
Nature
|March 23, 2010
概括
大规模的早期星系表现出强烈的恒星形成,由合并驱动. 引力透镜允许前所未有的恒星形成区域的分辨率,揭示了类似的物理学,但比局部星系更高的能量.
科学领域:
- 天文学 天文学
- 天体物理学 天体物理学
- 宇宙学的宇宙学是什么?
背景情况:
- 早期宇宙中的巨大星系以非常高的速度形成恒星.
- 尘埃遮蔽的星系是关键例子,它们每年可能以1000个太阳质量形成恒星.
- 这些爆发很可能是由气体丰富的星系融合引发的.
研究的目的:
- 探测早期大质量星系中各个恒星形成区域的特性.
- 为了克服当前望远镜空间分辨率和灵敏度的局限性.
- 研究早期宇宙中恒星形成的物理和能量.
主要方法:
- 观测引力透镜的小毫米星系SMMJ2135-0102 (红移z=2.3259).
- 利用前景星系团镜头提供的32的放大系数.
- 采用高分辨率亚毫米成像,以达到100帕塞克的线性尺度分辨率.
主要成果:
- 在SMMJ2135-0102内的已解决的恒星形成区域.
- 发现的亮度密度与当地的巨型分子云核心相当.
- 观察到的区域比当地同行大约100倍,比当地同行发光107倍.
结论:
- 在z~2的恒星形成的基础物理似乎与局部星系相似.
- 这些早期恒星形成区域的能量比今天观察到的要高得多.
- 引力透镜是研究高红移星系演变的强大工具.
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