Asymmetric Absorption Profiles around Ly alpha Lyman beta
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Asymmetric Absorption Profiles around Ly alpha Lyman beta
2013. Feb 15Sejong University
Hee-Won Lee
Content Quasar Absorption Systems Kramers-Heisenberg Formula Asymmetry in Scattering Cross Section Observational Ramifications Summary
Quasar Absorption Systems
Lyman Alpha Forest Lyman Limit System Damped Lyman Alpha System
Lyman alpha forest
Residual neutral hydrogen component forming a filamentary structure in the intergalactic medium
Appears in the absorption profile blueward of Lyman alpha of a background quasar
Damped Lyman Alpha Systems
Defined by N_HI>2X10^20 cm^-2
Maybe disk component of a galaxy intervening the sightline
Contain most neutral hydrogen providing raw material for star formation during the most of the cosmic time from the reion-ization era.
Important probe for cosmic chemical evolution
May contain some dust.
Chemical Evolution with DLAs
Voigt Profile Convolution of a Gaussian and a
Lorentzian The core part is approximately
Gaussian whereas the wing part is Lorentzian.
Resonance line shape is approx-imately Lorentzian in the near wing part.
Far wing part, deviation from a Lorentzian is observed depend-ing on the atomic wavefunction.
Resonance Scattering in Classical Physics
An atom is regarded as a simple harmonic oscilla-tor.
Scattering of electromag-netic radiation by an atom is analogous to an exter-nally driven simple har-monic oscillator.
Lorentzian behavior is universally obtained.
Quantum mechanical cor-rection is given in terms of the oscillator strength.
Qunatum Mechanical Description
Initial State: Incident Photon+Atom in Ground State Intermediate State : Atom in an excited np state. Final State: Outgoing Photon+Atom in Ground (or
Excited) State
Kramers-Heisenberg Formula
Hydrogen Atom
Admits wavefunctions in an analytically closed form.
Electric dipole operator connecting two eigenstates of hydrogen has matrix ele-ments given in terms of confluent hyperge-ometric function.
Expansion of K-H Formula around Ly Alpha
Expansion of K-H Formula around Ly beta
Exact Cross Section around Ly alpha and beta
Asymmetry around Ly alpha and Ly beta
Redward asym-metry around Lyman alpha.
Blueward asymmetry around Ly beta
Transmission Coefficients
Absorption Center shift
Voigt fit using shifted centers (ly a)
Shifted Voigt function (ly b)
Extreme HI content toward grb GRB 080607 N HI=5X10 22 cm-2 Inadequecy of Voigt profile fitting Accurate atomic physics is neces-
sary.
Why?
Summary and Discussion
Accurate atomic physics is required for care-ful analysis of DLAs, which are important in study of star formation process.
GRBs may provide another aspect of star forming history.
Gunn-Peterson troughs should be analyzed using accurate atomic physics.