关于近红外银河系外背景光异质的起源
Michael Zemcov1, Joseph Smidt2, Toshiaki Arai3
1Department of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Pasadena, CA 91109, USA.
概括
银河系外背景光 (EBL) 的波动揭示了来自剥离恒星的内光 (IHL),而不是早期星系. 这一发现表明,IHL对宇宙光子能量预算做出了重大贡献.
科学领域:
- 宇宙学的宇宙学是什么?
- 天体物理学 天体物理学
- 观测天文学 观测天文学
背景情况:
- 银河系外背景光 (EBL) 异质性提供了对宇宙光子产生和星系调查所遗漏的微弱结构的见解.
- 红外EBL波动受到争议,其起源被认为是再电离 (EOR) 时代的原始星系/黑洞或来自低红移的潮剥离恒星的内光 (IHL).
研究的目的:
- 用专门的探测火箭实验测量红外波长的EBL异性.
- 区分EBL波动的拟议来源,特别是EOR星系/黑洞与IHL之间的区别.
主要方法:
- 进行了一项专门的探测火箭实验,以测量EBL在1.1和1.6微米的异构性.
- 分析了观察到的波动,并将它们的幅度和特征与已知的星系群体和理论模型的预测进行了比较.
主要成果:
- 观测到的EBL波动明显超过已知的星系群体预期的振幅.
- 测量的波动与来自EOR星系和黑洞的辐射不一致.
- 这些数据强烈支持IHL作为观察到的EBL异型的主要来源.
- 测量到的EBL强度与已知的星系的背景相似,表明宇宙光子能量的贡献很大.
结论:
- 来自潮剥离恒星的内光 (IHL) 是在红外波长中观察到的银河系外背景光 (EBL) 异质性的主要来源.
- 这些发现挑战了早期宇宙星系和黑洞对EBL波动的贡献.
- IHL代表了整个宇宙光子能量预算的重要组成部分.
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