---
_id: '11580'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'We present results from the largest contiguous narrow-band survey in the
near-infrared. We have used the wide-field infrared camera/Canada–France–Hawaii
Telescope and the lowOH2 filter (1.187 ± 0.005 μm) to survey ≈10 deg2 of contiguous
extragalactic sky in the SA22 field. A total of ∼6000 candidate emission-line
galaxies are found. We use deep ugrizJK data to obtain robust photometric redshifts.
We combine our data with the High-redshift(Z) Emission Line Survey (HiZELS), explore
spectroscopic surveys (VVDS, VIPERS) and obtain our own spectroscopic follow-up
with KMOS, FMOS and MOSFIRE to derive large samples of high-redshift emission-line
selected galaxies: 3471 Hα emitters at z = 0.8, 1343 [O III] + Hβ emitters at
z = 1.4 and 572 [O II] emitters at z = 2.2. We probe comoving volumes of >106
Mpc3 and find significant overdensities, including an 8.5σ (spectroscopically
confirmed) overdensity of Hα emitters at z = 0.81. We derive Hα, [O III] + Hβ
and [O II] luminosity functions at z = 0.8, 1.4, 2.2, respectively, and present
implications for future surveys such as Euclid. Our uniquely large volumes/areas
allow us to subdivide the samples in thousands of randomized combinations of areas
and provide a robust empirical measurement of sample/cosmic variance. We show
that surveys for star-forming/emission-line galaxies at a depth similar to ours
can only overcome cosmic-variance (errors <10 per cent) if they are based on volumes
>5 × 105 Mpc3; errors on L* and ϕ* due to sample (cosmic) variance on surveys
probing ∼104 and ∼105 Mpc3 are typically very high: ∼300 and ∼40–60 per cent,
respectively.'
acknowledgement: The authors wish to thank the anonymous reviewer for many helpful
comments and suggestions which greatly improved the clarity and quality of this
work. DS acknowledges financial support from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific
research (NWO) through a Veni fellowship, from FCT through an FCT Investigator Starting
Grant and Start-up Grant (IF/01154/2012/CP0189/CT0010), from FCT grant PEst-OE/FIS/UI2751/2014,
and from LSF and LKBF. JM acknowledges the award of a Huygens PhD fellowship. PNB
is grateful for support from STFC. IRS acknowledges support from STFC, a Leverhulme
Fellowship, the ERC Advanced Investigator programme DUSTYGAL and a Royal Society/Wolfson
Merit Award. BMJ acknowledges support from the ERC-StG grant EGGS-278202. The Dark
Cosmology Centre is funded by the DNRF. The Dark Cosmology Centre is funded by the
DNRF. JWK acknowledges support from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
grant, no. 2008-0060544, funded by the Korea government (MSIP). JPS acknowledges
support from STFC (ST/I001573/1). JC acknowledges support from the FCT-IF grant
IF/01154/2012/CP0189/CT0010. The work was only possible due to OPTICON/FP7 and the
invaluable access that it granted to the CFHT telescope. We would also like to acknowledge
the excellent work done by CFHT staff in conducting the observations in service
mode, and on delivering truly excellent data. We are also tremendously thankful
to Kentaro Aoki for the incredible support while observing at Subaru with FMOS,
and also to the Keck staff for the help with the observations with MOSFIRE. This
work is based on observations obtained with WIRCam on the CFHT, OPTICON programme
2011B/029, 2012A019 and 2012B/016. Based on observations made with ESO telescopes
at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under programmes IDs 60.A-9460 (data can be
accessed through the ESO data archive), 087.A 0337 and 089.A-0965. Based on observations
done with FMOS on Subaru under programme S14A-084, and on MOSFIRE/Keck observations
under programme U066M. Part of the data on which this analysis is based are available
from Sobral et al. (2013a). Dedicated to the memory of C. M. Sobral (1953-2014).
article_processing_charge: No
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arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: D.
full_name: Sobral, D.
last_name: Sobral
- first_name: Jorryt J
full_name: Matthee, Jorryt J
id: 7439a258-f3c0-11ec-9501-9df22fe06720
last_name: Matthee
orcid: 0000-0003-2871-127X
- first_name: P. N.
full_name: Best, P. N.
last_name: Best
- first_name: I.
full_name: Smail, I.
last_name: Smail
- first_name: A. A.
full_name: Khostovan, A. A.
last_name: Khostovan
- first_name: B.
full_name: Milvang-Jensen, B.
last_name: Milvang-Jensen
- first_name: J.-W.
full_name: Kim, J.-W.
last_name: Kim
- first_name: J.
full_name: Stott, J.
last_name: Stott
- first_name: J.
full_name: Calhau, J.
last_name: Calhau
- first_name: H.
full_name: Nayyeri, H.
last_name: Nayyeri
- first_name: B.
full_name: Mobasher, B.
last_name: Mobasher
citation:
ama: 'Sobral D, Matthee JJ, Best PN, et al. CF-HiZELS, an ∼10 deg2 emission-line
survey with spectroscopic follow-up: Hα, [O III] + Hβ and [O II] luminosity functions
at z = 0.8, 1.4 and 2.2 . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
2015;451(3):2303-2323. doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1076'
apa: 'Sobral, D., Matthee, J. J., Best, P. N., Smail, I., Khostovan, A. A., Milvang-Jensen,
B., … Mobasher, B. (2015). CF-HiZELS, an ∼10 deg2 emission-line survey with spectroscopic
follow-up: Hα, [O III] + Hβ and [O II] luminosity functions at z = 0.8, 1.4 and
2.2 . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford University
Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1076'
chicago: 'Sobral, D., Jorryt J Matthee, P. N. Best, I. Smail, A. A. Khostovan, B.
Milvang-Jensen, J.-W. Kim, et al. “CF-HiZELS, an ∼10 Deg2 Emission-Line Survey
with Spectroscopic Follow-up: Hα, [O III] + Hβ and [O II] Luminosity Functions
at z = 0.8, 1.4 and 2.2 .” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Oxford University Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1076.'
ieee: 'D. Sobral et al., “CF-HiZELS, an ∼10 deg2 emission-line survey with
spectroscopic follow-up: Hα, [O III] + Hβ and [O II] luminosity functions at z
= 0.8, 1.4 and 2.2 ,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,
vol. 451, no. 3. Oxford University Press, pp. 2303–2323, 2015.'
ista: 'Sobral D, Matthee JJ, Best PN, Smail I, Khostovan AA, Milvang-Jensen B, Kim
J-W, Stott J, Calhau J, Nayyeri H, Mobasher B. 2015. CF-HiZELS, an ∼10 deg2 emission-line
survey with spectroscopic follow-up: Hα, [O III] + Hβ and [O II] luminosity functions
at z = 0.8, 1.4 and 2.2 . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 451(3),
2303–2323.'
mla: 'Sobral, D., et al. “CF-HiZELS, an ∼10 Deg2 Emission-Line Survey with Spectroscopic
Follow-up: Hα, [O III] + Hβ and [O II] Luminosity Functions at z = 0.8, 1.4 and
2.2 .” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 451, no.
3, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 2303–23, doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1076.'
short: D. Sobral, J.J. Matthee, P.N. Best, I. Smail, A.A. Khostovan, B. Milvang-Jensen,
J.-W. Kim, J. Stott, J. Calhau, H. Nayyeri, B. Mobasher, Monthly Notices of the
Royal Astronomical Society 451 (2015) 2303–2323.
date_created: 2022-07-14T09:02:22Z
date_published: 2015-08-11T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-08-19T08:23:18Z
day: '11'
doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv1076
extern: '1'
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1502.06602'
intvolume: ' 451'
issue: '3'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 'galaxies: evolution'
- 'galaxies: formation'
- 'galaxies: luminosity function'
- mass function
- 'cosmology: observations'
- early Universe
- large-scale structure of Universe
language:
- iso: eng
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month: '08'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
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publication: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
publication_identifier:
eissn:
- 1365-2966
issn:
- 0035-8711
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publisher: Oxford University Press
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
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title: 'CF-HiZELS, an ∼10 deg2 emission-line survey with spectroscopic follow-up:
Hα, [O III] + Hβ and [O II] luminosity functions at z = 0.8, 1.4 and 2.2 '
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year: '2015'
...
---
_id: '11581'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Using wide-field narrow-band surveys, we provide a new measurement of the
z = 6.6 Lymanα emitter (LAE) luminosity function (LF), which constraints the bright
end for the first time. We use a combination of archival narrow-band NB921 data
in UDS and new NB921 measurements in SA22 and COSMOS/UltraVISTA, all observed
with the Subaru telescope, with a total area of ∼5 deg2. We exclude lower redshift
interlopers by using broad-band optical and near-infrared photometry and also
exclude three supernovae with data split over multiple epochs. Combining the UDS
and COSMOS samples, we find no evolution of the bright end of the Lyα LF between
z = 5.7 and 6.6, which is supported by spectroscopic follow-up, and conclude that
sources with Himiko-like luminosity are not as rare as previously thought, with
number densities of ∼1.5 × 10−5 Mpc−3. Combined with our wide-field SA22 measurements,
our results indicate a non-Schechter-like bright end of the LF at z = 6.6 and
a different evolution of observed faint and bright LAEs, overcoming cosmic variance.
This differential evolution is also seen in the spectroscopic follow-up of UV-selected
galaxies and is now also confirmed for LAEs, and we argue that it may be an effect
of reionization. Using a toy model, we show that such differential evolution of
the LF is expected, since brighter sources are able to ionize their surroundings
earlier, such that Lyα photons are able to escape. Our targets are excellent candidates
for detailed follow-up studies and provide the possibility to give a unique view
on the earliest stages in the formation of galaxies and reionization process.
acknowledgement: "We thank the anonymous referee for the comments and suggestions
which have improved the quality of this work. We thank Masami Ouchi for his useful
comments on an earlier version of this paper. JM acknowledges the support of a Huygens
PhD fellowship from Leiden University and is thankful for the hospitality of the
Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Lisbon where part of
this research has been done. DS acknowledges financial support from the Netherlands
Organization for Scientific research (NWO) through a Veni fellowship, from FCT through
a FCT Investigator Starting Grant and Start-up Grant (IF/01154/2012/CP0189/CT0010)
and from FCT grant PEstOE/FIS/UI2751/2014. HR acknowledges support from the ERC
Advanced Investigator programme NewClusters 321271. We acknowledge the award of
ESO DDT time (294.A-5018) for providing the possibility of a timely publication
of this work.\r\nBased on observations with the Subaru Telescope (Programme IDs:
our observations: S14A-086; archival: S05B-027, S06A-025, S06B-010, S07A-013, S07B-008,
S08B-008 and S09A-017) and the W.M. Keck Observatory. The Subaru telescope is operated
by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. The W.M. Keck Observatory is
operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology,
the University of California and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Based on observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory
under programme ID 294.A-5018. Based on observations obtained with MegaPrime/Megacam,
a joint project of CFHT and CEA/IRFU, at the Canada–France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT)
which is operated by the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada, the Institut
National des Science de l’Univers of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS) of France, and the University of Hawaii. This work is based in part on data
products produced at Terapix available at the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre as
part of the CFHT Legacy Survey, a collaborative project of NRC and CNRS. Based on
data products from observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal
Observatory under ESO programme ID 179.A-2005 and on data products produced by TERAPIX
and the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit on behalf of the UltraVISTA consortium.\r\nIn
addition to the CFHT-LS and COSMOS-UltraVISTA surveys, we are grateful for the excellent
data sets from the UKIRT-DXS, SXDF and S-COSMOS survey teams, without these legacy
surveys, this research would have been impossible. We have benefited greatly from
the public available programming language PYTHON, including the NUMPY, MATPLOTLIB,
PYFITS, SCIPY and ASTROPY packages, the astronomical imaging tools SEXTRACTOR, SWARP
and SCAMP and the indispensable TOPCAT analysis tool (Taylor 2013)"
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Jorryt J
full_name: Matthee, Jorryt J
id: 7439a258-f3c0-11ec-9501-9df22fe06720
last_name: Matthee
orcid: 0000-0003-2871-127X
- first_name: David
full_name: Sobral, David
last_name: Sobral
- first_name: Sérgio
full_name: Santos, Sérgio
last_name: Santos
- first_name: Huub
full_name: Röttgering, Huub
last_name: Röttgering
- first_name: Behnam
full_name: Darvish, Behnam
last_name: Darvish
- first_name: Bahram
full_name: Mobasher, Bahram
last_name: Mobasher
citation:
ama: 'Matthee JJ, Sobral D, Santos S, Röttgering H, Darvish B, Mobasher B. Identification
of the brightest Lyα emitters at z = 6.6: implications for the evolution of the
luminosity function in the reionization era. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society. 2015;451(1):400-417. doi:10.1093/mnras/stv947'
apa: 'Matthee, J. J., Sobral, D., Santos, S., Röttgering, H., Darvish, B., &
Mobasher, B. (2015). Identification of the brightest Lyα emitters at z = 6.6:
implications for the evolution of the luminosity function in the reionization
era. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford University
Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv947'
chicago: 'Matthee, Jorryt J, David Sobral, Sérgio Santos, Huub Röttgering, Behnam
Darvish, and Bahram Mobasher. “Identification of the Brightest Lyα Emitters at
z = 6.6: Implications for the Evolution of the Luminosity Function in the Reionization
Era.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford University
Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv947.'
ieee: 'J. J. Matthee, D. Sobral, S. Santos, H. Röttgering, B. Darvish, and B. Mobasher,
“Identification of the brightest Lyα emitters at z = 6.6: implications for the
evolution of the luminosity function in the reionization era,” Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 451, no. 1. Oxford University Press,
pp. 400–417, 2015.'
ista: 'Matthee JJ, Sobral D, Santos S, Röttgering H, Darvish B, Mobasher B. 2015.
Identification of the brightest Lyα emitters at z = 6.6: implications for the
evolution of the luminosity function in the reionization era. Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society. 451(1), 400–417.'
mla: 'Matthee, Jorryt J., et al. “Identification of the Brightest Lyα Emitters at
z = 6.6: Implications for the Evolution of the Luminosity Function in the Reionization
Era.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 451, no.
1, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 400–17, doi:10.1093/mnras/stv947.'
short: J.J. Matthee, D. Sobral, S. Santos, H. Röttgering, B. Darvish, B. Mobasher,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 451 (2015) 400–417.
date_created: 2022-07-14T11:57:03Z
date_published: 2015-07-21T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-08-19T08:25:25Z
day: '21'
doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv947
extern: '1'
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1502.07355'
intvolume: ' 451'
issue: '1'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07355
month: '07'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 400-417
publication: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
publication_identifier:
eissn:
- 1365-2966
issn:
- 0035-8711
publication_status: published
publisher: Oxford University Press
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: 'Identification of the brightest Lyα emitters at z = 6.6: implications for
the evolution of the luminosity function in the reionization era'
type: journal_article
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 451
year: '2015'
...
---
_id: '11582'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: We have observed a sample of typical z ∼ 1 star-forming galaxies, selected
from the HiZELS survey, with the new K-band Multi-Object Spectrograph (KMOS) near-infrared,
multi-integral field unit instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT), in order
to obtain their dynamics and metallicity gradients. The majority of our galaxies
have a metallicity gradient consistent with being flat or negative (i.e. higher
metallicity cores than outskirts). Intriguingly, we find a trend between metallicity
gradient and specific star formation rate (sSFR), such that galaxies with a high
sSFR tend to have relatively metal poor centres, a result which is strengthened
when combined with data sets from the literature. This result appears to explain
the discrepancies reported between different high-redshift studies and varying
claims for evolution. From a galaxy evolution perspective, the trend we see would
mean that a galaxy's sSFR is governed by the amount of metal-poor gas that can
be funnelled into its core, triggered either by merging or through efficient accretion.
In fact, merging may play a significant role as it is the starburst galaxies at
all epochs, which have the more positive metallicity gradients. Our results may
help to explain the origin of the fundamental metallicity relation, in which galaxies
at a fixed mass are observed to have lower metallicities at higher star formation
rates, especially if the metallicity is measured in an aperture encompassing only
the central regions of the galaxy. Finally, we note that this study demonstrates
the power of KMOS as an efficient instrument for large-scale resolved galaxy surveys.
acknowledgement: First, we acknowledge the referee for their comments, which have
improved the clarity of this paper. JPS and IRS acknowledge support from STFC (ST/I001573/1).
IRS also acknowledges support from the ERC Advanced Investigator programme DUSTYGAL
and a Royal Society/Wolfson Merit Award. DS acknowledges financial support from
NWO through a Veni fellowship and from FCT through the award of an FCT-IF starting
grant. PNB acknowledges STFC for financial support.
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: John P.
full_name: Stott, John P.
last_name: Stott
- first_name: David
full_name: Sobral, David
last_name: Sobral
- first_name: A. M.
full_name: Swinbank, A. M.
last_name: Swinbank
- first_name: Ian
full_name: Smail, Ian
last_name: Smail
- first_name: Richard
full_name: Bower, Richard
last_name: Bower
- first_name: Philip N.
full_name: Best, Philip N.
last_name: Best
- first_name: Ray M.
full_name: Sharples, Ray M.
last_name: Sharples
- first_name: James E.
full_name: Geach, James E.
last_name: Geach
- first_name: Jorryt J
full_name: Matthee, Jorryt J
id: 7439a258-f3c0-11ec-9501-9df22fe06720
last_name: Matthee
orcid: 0000-0003-2871-127X
citation:
ama: Stott JP, Sobral D, Swinbank AM, et al. A relationship between specific star
formation rate and metallicity gradient within z ∼ 1 galaxies from KMOS-HiZELS.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2014;443(3):2695-2704.
doi:10.1093/mnras/stu1343
apa: Stott, J. P., Sobral, D., Swinbank, A. M., Smail, I., Bower, R., Best, P. N.,
… Matthee, J. J. (2014). A relationship between specific star formation rate and
metallicity gradient within z ∼ 1 galaxies from KMOS-HiZELS. Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1343
chicago: Stott, John P., David Sobral, A. M. Swinbank, Ian Smail, Richard Bower,
Philip N. Best, Ray M. Sharples, James E. Geach, and Jorryt J Matthee. “A Relationship
between Specific Star Formation Rate and Metallicity Gradient within z ∼ 1 Galaxies
from KMOS-HiZELS.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford
University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1343.
ieee: J. P. Stott et al., “A relationship between specific star formation
rate and metallicity gradient within z ∼ 1 galaxies from KMOS-HiZELS,” Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 443, no. 3. Oxford University
Press, pp. 2695–2704, 2014.
ista: Stott JP, Sobral D, Swinbank AM, Smail I, Bower R, Best PN, Sharples RM, Geach
JE, Matthee JJ. 2014. A relationship between specific star formation rate and
metallicity gradient within z ∼ 1 galaxies from KMOS-HiZELS. Monthly Notices of
the Royal Astronomical Society. 443(3), 2695–2704.
mla: Stott, John P., et al. “A Relationship between Specific Star Formation Rate
and Metallicity Gradient within z ∼ 1 Galaxies from KMOS-HiZELS.” Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 443, no. 3, Oxford University Press,
2014, pp. 2695–704, doi:10.1093/mnras/stu1343.
short: J.P. Stott, D. Sobral, A.M. Swinbank, I. Smail, R. Bower, P.N. Best, R.M.
Sharples, J.E. Geach, J.J. Matthee, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society 443 (2014) 2695–2704.
date_created: 2022-07-14T12:16:10Z
date_published: 2014-09-21T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-08-19T08:27:25Z
day: '21'
doi: 10.1093/mnras/stu1343
extern: '1'
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1407.1047'
intvolume: ' 443'
issue: '3'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 'galaxies: abundances'
- 'galaxies: evolution'
- 'galaxies: kinematics and dynamics'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.1047
month: '09'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 2695-2704
publication: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
publication_identifier:
eissn:
- 1365-2966
issn:
- 0035-8711
publication_status: published
publisher: Oxford University Press
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: A relationship between specific star formation rate and metallicity gradient
within z ∼ 1 galaxies from KMOS-HiZELS
type: journal_article
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volume: 443
year: '2014'
...
---
_id: '11583'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'Candidate galaxies at redshifts of z ∼ 10 are now being found in extremely
deep surveys, probing very small areas. As a consequence, candidates are very
faint, making spectroscopic confirmation practically impossible. In order to overcome
such limitations, we have undertaken the CF-HiZELS survey, which is a large-area,
medium-depth near-infrared narrow-band survey targeted at z = 8.8 Lyman α (Lyα)
emitters (LAEs) and covering 10 deg2 in part of the SSA22 field with the Canada–France–Hawaii
Telescope (CFHT). We surveyed a comoving volume of 4.7 × 106 Mpc3 to a Lyα luminosity
limit of 6.3 × 1043舁erg舁s−1. We look for Lyα candidates by applying the following
criteria: (i) clear emission-line source, (ii) no optical detections (ugriz from
CFHTLS), (iii) no visible detection in the optical stack (ugriz > 27), (iv) visually
checked reliable NBJ and J detections and (v) J − K ≤ 0. We compute photometric
redshifts and remove a significant amount of dusty lower redshift line-emitters
at z ∼ 1.4 or 2.2. A total of 13 Lyα candidates were found, of which two are marked
as strong candidates, but the majority have very weak constraints on their spectral
energy distributions. Using follow-up observations with SINFONI/VLT, we are able
to exclude the most robust candidates as LAEs. We put a strong constraint on the
Lyα luminosity function at z ∼ 9 and make realistic predictions for ongoing and
future surveys. Our results show that surveys for the highest redshift LAEs are
susceptible of multiple contaminations and that spectroscopic follow-up is absolutely
necessary.'
acknowledgement: We thank the anonymous referee for the comments and suggestions which
improved both the quality and clarity of this work. DS acknowledges financial support
from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) through a Veni fellowship.
IRS acknowledges support from STFC (ST/I001573/1), a Leverhulme Fellowship, the
ERC Advanced Investigator programme DUSTYGAL 321334 and a Royal Society/Wolfson
Merit Award. PNB acknowledges support from the Leverhulme Trust. JWK acknowledges
the support from the Creative Research Initiative Program, no. 2008- 0060544, of
the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Korean government
(MSIP). JPUF and BMJ acknowledge support from the ERC-StG grant EGGS-278202. The
Dark Cosmology Centre is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. This
work is based in part on data obtained as part of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey.
Based on observations obtained with MegaPrime/MegaCam, a joint project of CFHT and
CEA/IRFU, at the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) which is operated by the
National Research Council (NRC) of Canada, the Institut National des Science de
l’Univers of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) of France and
the University of Hawaii. This work is based in part on data products produced at
Terapix available at the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre as part of the Canada-France-Hawaii
Telescope Legacy Survey, a collaborative project of NRC and CNRS. This work was
only possible due to OPTICON/FP7 and the access that it granted to the CFHT telescope.
The authors also wish to acknowledge the CFHTLS and UKIDSS surveys for their excellent
legacy and complementary value – without such high-quality data sets, this research
would not have been possible.
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author:
- first_name: Jorryt J
full_name: Matthee, Jorryt J
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last_name: Matthee
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- first_name: David
full_name: Sobral, David
last_name: Sobral
- first_name: A. M.
full_name: Swinbank, A. M.
last_name: Swinbank
- first_name: Ian
full_name: Smail, Ian
last_name: Smail
- first_name: P. N.
full_name: Best, P. N.
last_name: Best
- first_name: Jae-Woo
full_name: Kim, Jae-Woo
last_name: Kim
- first_name: Marijn
full_name: Franx, Marijn
last_name: Franx
- first_name: Bo
full_name: Milvang-Jensen, Bo
last_name: Milvang-Jensen
- first_name: Johan
full_name: Fynbo, Johan
last_name: Fynbo
citation:
ama: 'Matthee JJ, Sobral D, Swinbank AM, et al. A 10 deg2 Lyman α survey at z=8.8
with spectroscopic follow-up: Strong constraints on the luminosity function and
implications for other surveys. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
2014;440(3):2375-2387. doi:10.1093/mnras/stu392'
apa: 'Matthee, J. J., Sobral, D., Swinbank, A. M., Smail, I., Best, P. N., Kim,
J.-W., … Fynbo, J. (2014). A 10 deg2 Lyman α survey at z=8.8 with spectroscopic
follow-up: Strong constraints on the luminosity function and implications for
other surveys. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford
University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu392'
chicago: 'Matthee, Jorryt J, David Sobral, A. M. Swinbank, Ian Smail, P. N. Best,
Jae-Woo Kim, Marijn Franx, Bo Milvang-Jensen, and Johan Fynbo. “A 10 Deg2 Lyman
α Survey at Z=8.8 with Spectroscopic Follow-up: Strong Constraints on the Luminosity
Function and Implications for Other Surveys.” Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu392.'
ieee: 'J. J. Matthee et al., “A 10 deg2 Lyman α survey at z=8.8 with spectroscopic
follow-up: Strong constraints on the luminosity function and implications for
other surveys,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol.
440, no. 3. Oxford University Press, pp. 2375–2387, 2014.'
ista: 'Matthee JJ, Sobral D, Swinbank AM, Smail I, Best PN, Kim J-W, Franx M, Milvang-Jensen
B, Fynbo J. 2014. A 10 deg2 Lyman α survey at z=8.8 with spectroscopic follow-up:
Strong constraints on the luminosity function and implications for other surveys.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 440(3), 2375–2387.'
mla: 'Matthee, Jorryt J., et al. “A 10 Deg2 Lyman α Survey at Z=8.8 with Spectroscopic
Follow-up: Strong Constraints on the Luminosity Function and Implications for
Other Surveys.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol.
440, no. 3, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 2375–87, doi:10.1093/mnras/stu392.'
short: J.J. Matthee, D. Sobral, A.M. Swinbank, I. Smail, P.N. Best, J.-W. Kim, M.
Franx, B. Milvang-Jensen, J. Fynbo, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society 440 (2014) 2375–2387.
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date_published: 2014-05-21T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-08-19T08:30:30Z
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- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 'galaxies: evolution'
- 'galaxies: high-redshift'
- 'cosmology: observations'
- dark ages
- reionization
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title: 'A 10 deg2 Lyman α survey at z=8.8 with spectroscopic follow-up: Strong constraints
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