Metallic UV absorption lines as diagnostics of the escape of ionising photons from simulated galaxies

Diplôme Thèse Metallic UV absorption lines as diagnostics of the escape of ionising photons from simulated galaxies eng 2021-11-16 2021-12-28 author Mauerhofer Valentin 0000-0003-0595-9483 888097 director Verhamme Anne 135594 director Blaizot Jérémy 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:158811 urn:nbn:ch:unige-1588116 Sc. 5629 Reionisation was the period during which the first galaxies emitted enough hydrogen-ionising photons to ionise the intergalactic medium (IGM). To deduce the contribution of a galaxy to the emission of ionising photons, one must know its escape fraction of ionising photons: which fraction reach the IGM before being absorbed by the gas inside the galaxy? My goal in this thesis was to explore ways of deducing the escape fraction of high-redshift galaxies, relying on indirect methods since the ionising photons are not observable. I focused my efforts on one method using metallic absorption lines, believed to be linked with the coverage of neutral gas in front of stars, thus related to the escape fraction. I post-processed RAMSES-RT simulations to produce mock absorption lines and compute escape fractions from simulated galaxies. Comparing the lines and the escape fractions, I showed that the former are not faithful tracers of the latter. Reionisation Galaxies Simulations Absorption lines Escape fractions Dust attenuation Dewey 520 26 Département d'astronomie 12 false a9cd7541-5c60-4787-8cc1-acdebdfb0f8e Thesis Public Thesis_manuscript_Geneva_corrected.pdf 20443846 application/pdf openAccess Faculté des sciences / Département d'astronomie

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