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z=7 Lyman α发射体探测的再电离和星系演化

The Reionization and Galaxy Evolution Probed by z=7 Lyman Alpha Emitters

Kazuaki Ota, Masanori Iye, Nobunari Kashikawa, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi, Tomonori Totani, Masahiro Nagashima, Tomoki Morokuma, Hisanori Furu… 展开作者

Kazuaki Ota, Masanori Iye, Nobunari Kashikawa, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi, Tomonori Totani, Masahiro Nagashima, Tomoki Morokuma, Hisanori Furusawa, Takashi Hattori, Yuichi Matsuda, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Masami Ouchi

摘要:

我们对Subaru Deep Field(SDF)进行了窄带NB 973(在9755 A处的带宽为200 A)成像,并发现了两个z=7的莱曼α发射体(LAE)候选者,其NB 973 =24.9。进行深度跟踪光谱学,我们确定其中一个是真正的z=6.96 LAE。这表明,星系形成是在大爆炸后7.5亿年进行的。同时,LAE的Lyman α线光度函数在SDF中从z=5.7下降到6.6。z=6.6时的L* 为z=5.7时的40-60%。我们还确认,与最新的SDF LAE样品相比,z=7 LAE的数密度仅为z=6.6时密度的17%。这一系列的显着减少LAE密度增加红移可能是在这些时期的星系演化的结果。然而,使用紫外连续光度函数的LAEs,莱曼break星系,和LAE演化模型的基础上的层次聚类,我们发现,星系演化本身不能解释所有的密度下降。这种额外的密度赤字可以解释为来自LAEs的莱曼α光子的衰减,这是由于在z~6.6-7处正在进行的宇宙再电离期间中性氢分数的快速演化。

英文摘要:

We made a narrowband NB973 (bandwidth of 200A at 9755A) imaging of the Subaru Deep Field (SDF) and found two z=7 Lyman alpha emitter (LAE) candidates down to NB973=24.9. Carrying out deep follow-up spectroscopy, we identified one of them as a real z=6.96 LAE. This has shown that galaxy formation was in progress just 750 Myr after the Big Bang. Meanwhile, the Lyman alpha line luminosity function of LAE is known to decline from z=5.7 to 6.6 in the SDF. L* at z=6.6 is 40-60% of that at z=5.7. We also confirm that the number density of z=7 LAE is only 17% of the density at z=6.6 comparing the latest SDF LAE samples. This series of significant decreases in LAE density with increasing redshift can be the result of galaxy evolution during these epochs. However, using the UV continuum luminosity functions of LAEs, those of Lyman break galaxies, and a LAE evolution model based on the hierarchical clustering, we find that galaxy evolution alone cannot explain all the decrease in density. This extra density deficit can be interpreted as the attenuation of the Lyman alpha photons from LAEs due to a rapid evolution of neutral hydrogen fraction during the ongoing cosmic reionization at z~6.6-7.

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