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NEAR-ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY OF STAR-FORMING GALAXIES FROM eBOSS: SIGNATURES OF UBIQUITOUS GALACTIC-SCALE OUTFLOWS

Zhu, Guangtun Ben
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Comparat, Johan
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Kneib, Jean-Paul  
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2015
The Astrophysical Journal

We present rest-frame near-ultraviolet (NUV) spectroscopy of star-forming galaxies (SFGs) at 0.6 < z < 1.2 from the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) in SDSS-IV. One of the eBOSS programs is to obtain 2 ''. (about 15 kpc) fiber spectra of about 200,000 emission-line galaxies (ELGs) at redshift z greater than or similar to 0.6. We use the data from the pilot observations of this program, including 8620 spectra of SFGs at 0.6 < z < 1.2. The median composite spectra of these SFGs at 2200 angstrom < lambda < 4000 angstrom feature asymmetric, preferentially blueshifted non-resonant emission, Fe II*, and blueshifted resonant absorption, e.g., Fe II and Mg II, indicating ubiquitous outflows driven by star formation at these redshifts. For the absorption lines, we find a variety of velocity profiles with different degrees of blueshift. Comparing our new observations with the literature, we do not observe the non-resonant emission in the small-aperture (< 40 pc) spectra of local star-forming regions with the Hubble Space Telescope, and find the observed line ratios in the SFG spectra to be different from those in the spectra of local star-forming regions, as well as those of quasar absorption-line systems in the same redshift range. We introduce an outflow model that can simultaneously explain the multiple observed properties and suggest that the variety of absorption velocity profiles and the line ratio differences are caused by scattered fluorescent emission filling in on top of the absorption in the large-aperture eBOSS spectra. We develop an observation-driven, model-independent method to correct the emission infill to reveal the true absorption profiles. Finally, we show that the strengths of both the non-resonant emission and the emission-corrected resonant absorption increase with [O II] lambda lambda 3727, 3730 rest equivalent width and luminosity, with a slightly larger dependence on the former. Our results show that the eBOSS and future dark-energy surveys (e.g., Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument survey and Prime Focus Spectrograph survey) will provide rich data sets of rest-frame NUV spectroscopy for astrophysical applications.

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DOI
10.1088/0004-637X/815/1/48
Web of Science ID

WOS:000367105000048

Author(s)
Zhu, Guangtun Ben
Comparat, Johan
Kneib, Jean-Paul  
Delubac, Timothee  
Raichoor, Anand  
Dawson, Kyle S.
Newman, Jeffrey
Yeche, Christophe
Zhou, Xu
Schneider, Donald P.
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Iop Publishing Ltd

Published in
The Astrophysical Journal
Volume

815

Issue

1

Start page

48

Subjects

galaxies: evolution

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galaxies: ISM

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intergalactic medium

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quasars: absorption lines

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surveys

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ultraviolet: galaxies

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REVIEWED

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February 16, 2016
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