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莱曼连续逃逸巡天:红移为3.1的[O III ]-强源的电离辐射

The Lyman Continuum Escape Survey: Ionizing Radiation from [O III]-Strong Sources at a Redshift of 3.1

Thomas J. Fletcher, Mengtao Tang, Brant E. Robertson, Kimihiko Nakajima, Richard S. Ellis, Daniel P. Stark, Akio Inoue

摘要:

我们目前的结果,从连续逃逸巡天(LACES),哈勃太空望远镜(HST)的计划,旨在表征电离辐射出现从一个样本的莱曼α发射星系在红移$z\simeq 3.1$。由于许多显示强烈的[O III]发射特性的$z>6.5$恒星形成星系,他们可能代表有价值的低红移类似物的星系在再电离时代。利用HST Wide Field Camera 3 / UVIS $F336W$对Lyman连续辐射进行成像,研究了该样品中电离光子的逃逸分数。对于61个来源,其中77%的光谱确认和53个测量的[O III]发射,我们检测到莱曼连续泄漏在20%,率显着高于在个别连续选择莱曼破裂星系。我们估计有98%的概率,我们的检测$\leq 2$可能会受到前景污染。拟合多波段光谱能量分布(SED),考虑到不同的恒星星族,尘埃粒子和金属丰度,我们得到个人莱曼连续逃逸分数校正的前景星系际吸收。我们发现逃逸分数为15%至60%的个别对象,并推断出平均20%的逃逸分数拟合复合SED为我们检测到的样本。然而,令人惊讶的是,即使是没有单独的$F336W$检测的那些源的深堆叠也提供了小于0.5%的平均逃逸分数的严格上限。我们研究了各种相关性与源的属性,并讨论了流行的图片,宇宙再电离的背景下,这种紧凑的,低金属量的恒星形成星系驱动的影响。

英文摘要:

We present results from the LymAn Continuum Escape Survey (LACES), a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) program designed to characterize the ionizing radiation emerging from a sample of Lyman alpha emitting galaxies at redshift $z\simeq 3.1$. As many show intense [O III] emission characteristic of $z>6.5$ star-forming galaxies, they may represent valuable low redshift analogs of galaxies in the reionization era. Using HST Wide Field Camera 3 / UVIS $F336W$ to image Lyman continuum emission, we investigate the escape fraction of ionizing photons in this sample. For 61 sources, of which 77% are spectroscopically confirmed and 53 have measures of [O III] emission, we detect Lyman continuum leakage in 20%, a rate significantly higher than is seen in individual continuum-selected Lyman break galaxies. We estimate there is a 98% probability that $\leq 2$ of our detections could be affected by foreground contamination. Fitting multi-band spectral energy distributions (SEDs) to take account of the varying stellar populations, dust extinctions and metallicities, we derive individual Lyman continuum escape fractions corrected for foreground intergalactic absorption. We find escape fractions of 15 to 60% for individual objects, and infer an average 20% escape fraction by fitting composite SEDs for our detected samples. Surprisingly however, even a deep stack of those sources with no individual $F336W$ detections provides a stringent upper limit on the average escape fraction of less than 0.5%. We examine various correlations with source properties and discuss the implications in the context of the popular picture that cosmic reionization is driven by such compact, low metallicity star-forming galaxies.

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