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弱3<z<7 Lyman Break Galerkin:- I的Keck光谱由Lyman-α辐射的光度和红移依赖分数对宇宙再电离的新限制

Keck Spectroscopy of Faint 3<z<7 Lyman Break Galaxies: - I. New constraints on cosmic reionisation from the luminosity and redshift-dependent fraction of Lyman-alpha emission

Daniel P. Stark, Richard S. Ellis, Kuenley Chiu, Masami Ouchi, Andrew Bunker

摘要:

我们提出了一个新的Keck光谱调查的结果,在红移范围3<z<7的紫外微弱的LBG。结合早期的Keck和已发表的ESO VLT数据,我们的样本包含600多个辍学者,为可能主导宇宙再电离过程的典型亚L * 源的性质提供了新的见解。在这里,我们使用这个样本来计算连续选择的退出中强Lya发射体的分数。通过量化“Lya分数”如何随红移而变化,我们试图限制与再电离相关的Lya传输的变化。为了区分再电离的影响与其他影响Lya分数的因素(例如尘埃,ISM运动学),我们研究了当IGM被电离时,Lya分数在3<z<6上的光度和红移依赖性。这些结果表明,低光度星系比高光度星系更频繁地出现强Lya辐射,并且在固定光度下,强Lya辐射的普遍性随着红移的增加而适度增加。基于我们的数据集中的蓝色紫外线斜率和强Lya发射星系之间的相关性,我们认为,Lya分数的趋势是由红移和亮度依赖的变化,在尘埃遮蔽,与可能的额外贡献的趋势中的运动学和覆盖部分的中性氢。基于候选z~7透镜LBG的有限IR光谱,我们发现在z~7处Lya分数的尝试性减少,如果通过未来的调查证实,则该结果将表明中性分数在该时期增加。考虑到哈勃WFC 3/IR巡天提供的z和Y滴,我们表明很快就有可能使用光学和近红外光谱仪显着提高对Lya分数的估计,从而将本文中进行的研究扩展到7<z<8。

英文摘要:

We present results from a new Keck spectroscopic survey of UV-faint LBGs in the redshift range 3<z<7. Combined with earlier Keck and published ESO VLT data, our sample contains more than 600 dropouts, offering new insight into the nature of sub-L* sources typical of those likely to dominate the cosmic reionisation process. Here we use this sample to characterise the fraction of strong Lya emitters within the continuum-selected dropouts. By quantifying how the "Lya fraction" varies with redshift, we seek to constrain changes in Lya transmission associated with reionisation. In order to distinguish the effects of reionisation from other factors which affect the Lya fraction (e.g. dust, ISM kinematics), we study the luminosity and redshift-dependence of the Lya fraction over 3<z<6, when the IGM is known to be ionised. These results reveal that low luminosity galaxies show strong Lya emission much more frequently than luminous systems, and that at fixed luminosity, the prevalence of strong Lya emission increases moderately with redshift over 3 < z < 6. Based on the correlation between blue UV slopes and strong Lya emitting galaxies in our dataset, we argue that the Lya fraction trends are governed by redshift and luminosity-dependent variations in the dust obscuration, with likely additional contributions from trends in the kinematics and covering fraction of neutral hydrogen. We find a tentative decrease in the Lya fraction at z~7 based on the limited IR spectra for candidate z~7 lensed LBGs, a result which, if confirmed with future surveys, would suggest an increase in the neutral fraction by this epoch. Given the supply of z and Y-drops now available from Hubble WFC3/IR surveys, we show it will soon be possible to significantly improve estimates of the Lya fraction using optical and near-IR spectrographs, thereby extending the study conducted in this paper to 7<z<8.

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