Asymmetric Absorption Profiles around Ly alpha Lyman beta

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Asymmetric Absorption Profiles around Ly alpha Lyman beta 2013. Feb 15 Sejong University Hee-Won Lee

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Asymmetric Absorption Profiles around Ly alpha Lyman beta. 2013. Feb 15 Sejong University Hee -Won Lee. Content. Quasar Absorption Systems Kramers -Heisenberg Formula Asymmetry in Scattering Cross Section Observational Ramifications Summary. Quasar Absorption Systems. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Asymmetric Absorption Profiles around Ly alpha Lyman beta

2013. Feb 15Sejong University

Hee-Won Lee

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Content Quasar Absorption Systems Kramers-Heisenberg Formula Asymmetry in Scattering Cross Section Observational Ramifications Summary

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Quasar Absorption Systems

Lyman Alpha Forest Lyman Limit System Damped Lyman Alpha System

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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

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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.

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Chemical Evolution with DLAs

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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.

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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.

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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

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Kramers-Heisenberg Formula

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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.

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Expansion of K-H Formula around Ly Alpha

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Expansion of K-H Formula around Ly beta

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Exact Cross Section around Ly alpha and beta

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Asymmetry around Ly alpha and Ly beta

Redward asym-metry around Lyman alpha.

Blueward asymmetry around Ly beta

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Transmission Coefficients

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Absorption Center shift

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Voigt fit using shifted centers (ly a)

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Shifted Voigt function (ly b)

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Extreme HI content toward grb GRB 080607 N HI=5X10 22 cm-2 Inadequecy of Voigt profile fitting Accurate atomic physics is neces-

sary.

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Why?

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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.