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低红移莱曼连续谱巡天I:新的、多样的局域莱曼连续谱发射体

The Low-Redshift Lyman Continuum Survey I: New, Diverse Local Lyman-Continuum Emitters

Sophia R. Flury, Anne E. Jaskot, Harry C. Ferguson, Gabor Worseck, Kirill Makan, John Chisholm, Alberto Saldana-Lopez, Daniel Schaerer, Stephan McCandless, Bing… 展开作者

Sophia R. Flury, Anne E. Jaskot, Harry C. Ferguson, Gabor Worseck, Kirill Makan, John Chisholm, Alberto Saldana-Lopez, Daniel Schaerer, Stephan McCandless, Bingjie Wang, N. M. Ford, Timothy Heckman, Zhiyuan Ji, Mauro Giavalisco, Ricardo Amorin, Hakim Atek, Jeremy Blaizot, Sanchayeeta Borthakur, Cody Carr, Marco Castellano, Stefano Cristiani, Stephane de Barros, Mark Dickinson, Steven L. Finkelstein, Brian Fleming, Fabio Fontanot, Thibault Garel, Andrea Grazian, Matthew Hayes, Alaina Henry, Valentin Mauerhofer, Genoveva Micheva, M. S. Oey, Goran Ostlin, Casey Papovich, Laura Pentericci, Swara Ravindranath, Joakim Rosdahl, Michael Rutkowski, Paola Santini, Claudia Scarlata, Harry Teplitz, Trinh Thuan, Maxime Trebitsch, Eros Vanzella, Anne Verhamme, Xinfeng Xu

摘要:

赖曼连续谱(LyC)光子的起源负责宇宙的再电离是未知的和高度争议。由于星系际介质的吸收,从再电离时代检测LyC光子是不可能的,这促使了几种间接诊断的发展,以推断星系通过研究较低的红移类似物贡献LyC光子来重新电离宇宙的速率。我们提出的低红移莱曼连续巡天(LzLCS)包括测量与HST/COS的z=0.2-0.4的66个星系的样本。经过仔细处理的FUV光谱,我们得到了总共35个莱曼连续发射体(LCE)检测到97.725%的置信度,近三倍的已知本地LCE的数量。我们估计逃逸分数从检测到的LyC通量和未检测到的LyC通量的上限,找到一个范围内的LyC逃逸分数高达50%。在35个LzLCS LCE中,有12个的LyC逃逸分数大于5%,是具有宇宙学相关LyC逃逸的已知局部LCE数量的两倍多。

英文摘要:

The origins of Lyman continuum (LyC) photons responsible for the reionization of the universe are as of yet unknown and highly contested. Detecting LyC photons from the epoch of reionization is not possible due to absorption by the intergalactic medium, which has prompted the development of several indirect diagnostics to infer the rate at which galaxies contribute LyC photons to reionize the universe by studying lower-redshift analogs. We present the Low-redshift Lyman Continuum Survey (LzLCS) comprising measurements made with HST/COS for a z=0.2-0.4 sample of 66 galaxies. After careful processing of the FUV spectra, we obtain a total of 35 Lyman continuum emitters (LCEs) detected with 97.725% confidence, nearly tripling the number of known local LCEs. We estimate escape fractions from the detected LyC flux and upper limits on the undetected LyC flux, finding a range of LyC escape fractions up to 50%. Of the 35 LzLCS LCEs, 12 have LyC escape fractions greater than 5%, more than doubling the number of known local LCEs with cosmologically relevant LyC escape.

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