P. Tummuangpak, T. Shanks, R. Bielby, N. H. M. Crighton, H. Francke, L. Infante, T. Theuns
We use observations and simulations to study the relationship between star-forming galaxies and the IGM at z~3. We use redshift data taken from the VLT LBG Redshift Survey (VLRS) and Keck surveys in fields centred on bright background QSOs, whilst the simulated data is taken from GIMIC. In the simulations, we find that the dominant peculiar velocities are in the form of large-scale coherent motions of gas and galaxies. Gravitational infall of galaxies towards each other is also seen, consistent with linear theory. Peculiar velocity pairs with separations smaller than 1Mpc have a smaller dispersion and better explain the simulated z-space correlations. Lyman-alpha auto- and cross-correlations in the simulations appear to show smaller infall than implied by the expected beta_Lyman-alpha ~ 1.3. Galaxy-wide outflows implemented in the simulations may contribute to this effect. When velocity errors are taken into account, the LBG correlation function prefers the high clustering amplitude shown by higher mass galaxies in the simulation. The simulation and observations also show similar neutral gas densities around galaxies. Finally, little direct evidence is seen in either simulations or observations for high transmission near galaxies due to feedback in agreement with the results of Rakic et al 2012. However, these authors claim evidence for random peculiar velocities between gas and galaxies at small scales and strong infall at larger scales which are much less evident in our GIMIC simulations or indeed in the observed Keck+VLRS data.(abridged)
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.4598
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