TY - JOUR

T1 - Environmental Dependence of Galactic Properties Traced by Ly alpha Forest Absorption

T2 - Diversity among Galaxy Populations

AU - Momose, Rieko

AU - Shimasaku, Kazuhiro

AU - Kashikawa, Nobunari

AU - Nagamine, Kentaro

AU - Shimizu, Ikkoh

AU - Nakajima, Kimihiko

AU - Terao, Yasunori

AU - Kusakabe, Haruka

AU - Ando, Makoto

AU - Motohara, Kentaro

AU - Spitler, Lee

PY - 2021/3/1

Y1 - 2021/3/1

N2 - In order to shed light on how galactic properties depend on the intergalactic medium (IGM) environment traced by the Ly alpha forest, we observationally investigate the IGM-galaxy connection using the publicly available 3D IGM tomography data (CLAMATO) and several galaxy catalogs in the COSMOS field. We measure the cross-correlation function (CCF) for 570 galaxies with spec-z measurements and detect a correlation with the IGM up to 50 h(-1) comoving Mpc. We show that galaxies with stellar masses of 10(9)-10(10) M are the dominant contributor to the total CCF signal. We also investigate CCFs for several galaxy populations: Ly alpha emitters (LAEs), H alpha emitters (HAEs), [O iii] emitters (O3Es), active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and submillimeter galaxies (SMGs), and we detect the highest signal in AGNs and SMGs at large scales (r >= 5 h(-1) Mpc), but in LAEs at small scales (r <5 h(-1) Mpc). We find that they live in various IGM environments-HAEs trace the IGM in a similar manner to the continuum-selected galaxies, but LAEs and O3Es tend to reside in higher-density regions. Additionally, LAEs' CCF is flat up to r similar to 3 h(-1) Mpc, indicating that they tend to avoid the highest-density regions. For AGNs and SMGs, the CCF peak at r = 5-6 h(-1) Mpc implies that they tend to be in locally lower-density regions. We suspect that it is due to the photoionization of IGM H i by AGNs, i.e., the proximity effect.

AB - In order to shed light on how galactic properties depend on the intergalactic medium (IGM) environment traced by the Ly alpha forest, we observationally investigate the IGM-galaxy connection using the publicly available 3D IGM tomography data (CLAMATO) and several galaxy catalogs in the COSMOS field. We measure the cross-correlation function (CCF) for 570 galaxies with spec-z measurements and detect a correlation with the IGM up to 50 h(-1) comoving Mpc. We show that galaxies with stellar masses of 10(9)-10(10) M are the dominant contributor to the total CCF signal. We also investigate CCFs for several galaxy populations: Ly alpha emitters (LAEs), H alpha emitters (HAEs), [O iii] emitters (O3Es), active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and submillimeter galaxies (SMGs), and we detect the highest signal in AGNs and SMGs at large scales (r >= 5 h(-1) Mpc), but in LAEs at small scales (r <5 h(-1) Mpc). We find that they live in various IGM environments-HAEs trace the IGM in a similar manner to the continuum-selected galaxies, but LAEs and O3Es tend to reside in higher-density regions. Additionally, LAEs' CCF is flat up to r similar to 3 h(-1) Mpc, indicating that they tend to avoid the highest-density regions. For AGNs and SMGs, the CCF peak at r = 5-6 h(-1) Mpc implies that they tend to be in locally lower-density regions. We suspect that it is due to the photoionization of IGM H i by AGNs, i.e., the proximity effect.

KW - Galaxy formation

KW - Galaxy evolution

KW - Ly alpha forest

KW - Intergalactic medium

KW - Large-scale structure of the universe

KW - Ly alpha galaxies

KW - Emission line galaxies

KW - AGN host galaxies

U2 - 10.3847/1538-4357/abd2af

DO - 10.3847/1538-4357/abd2af

M3 - Journal article

VL - 909

JO - Astrophysical Journal

JF - Astrophysical Journal

SN - 0004-637X

IS - 2

M1 - 117

ER -