---
_id: '11498'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) emission lines probe electron densities, gas-phase
abundances, metallicities, and ionization parameters of the emitting star-forming
galaxies and their environments. The strongest main UV emission line, Lyα, has
been instrumental in advancing the general knowledge of galaxy formation in the
early universe. However, observing Lyα emission becomes increasingly challenging
at z ≳ 6 when the neutral hydrogen fraction of the circumgalactic and intergalactic
media increases. Secondary weaker UV emission lines provide important alternative
methods for studying galaxy properties at high redshift. We present a large sample
of rest-frame UV emission line sources at intermediate redshift for calibrating
and exploring the connection between secondary UV lines and the emitting galaxies’
physical properties and their Lyα emission. The sample of 2052 emission line sources
with 1.5 < z < 6.4 was collected from integral field data from the MUSE-Wide and
MUSE-Deep surveys taken as part of Guaranteed Time Observations. The objects were
selected through untargeted source detection (i.e., no preselection of sources
as in dedicated spectroscopic campaigns) in the three-dimensional MUSE data cubes.
We searched optimally extracted one-dimensional spectra of the full sample for
UV emission features via emission line template matching, resulting in a sample
of more than 100 rest-frame UV emission line detections. We show that the detection
efficiency of (non-Lyα) UV emission lines increases with survey depth, and that
the emission line strength of He IIλ1640 Å, [O III] λ1661 + O III] λ1666, and
[Si III] λ1883 + Si III] λ1892 correlate with the strength of [C III] λ1907 +
C III] λ1909. The rest-frame equivalent width (EW0) of [C III] λ1907 + C III]
λ1909 is found to be roughly 0.22 ± 0.18 of EW0(Lyα). We measured the velocity
offsets of resonant emission lines with respect to systemic tracers. For C IVλ1548
+ C IVλ1551 we find that ΔvC IV ≲ 250 km s−1, whereas ΔvLyα falls in the range
of 250−500 km s−1 which is in agreement with previous results from the literature.
The electron density ne measured from [Si III] λ1883 + Si III] λ1892 and [C III]
λ1907 + C III] λ1909 line flux ratios is generally < 105 cm−3 and the gas-phase
abundance is below solar at 12 + log10(O/H)≈8. Lastly, we used “PhotoIonization
Model Probability Density Functions” to infer physical parameters of the full
sample and individual systems based on photoionization model parameter grids and
observational constraints from our UV emission line searches. This reveals that
the UV line emitters generally have ionization parameter log10(U) ≈ −2.5 and metal
mass fractions that scatter around Z ≈ 10−2, that is Z ≈ 0.66 Z⊙. Value-added
catalogs of the full sample of MUSE objects studied in this work and a collection
of UV line emitters from the literature are provided with this paper.
acknowledgement: 'We would like to thank Charlotte Mason for useful discussions and
for providing the data for the curves shown in Fig. 13 and Dawn Erb for providing
the observational data for the comparison sample studied by Steidel et al. (2014),
also shown in Fig. 13. This work has been supported by the BMBF grant 05A14BAC and
we acknowledge support by the Competitive Fund of the Leibniz Association through
grant SAW-2015-AIP-2. AF acknowledges the support from grant PRIN MIUR2017-20173ML3WW_001.
JS acknowledges the support from Vici grant 639.043.409 from the Dutch Research
Council (NWO). GM received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research
and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No MARACAS
– DLV-896778. This paper is based on observations collected at the European Organisation
for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere under ESO programmes 094.A-0289(B),
095.A-0010(A), 096.A-0045(A), 096.A-0045(B), 094.A-0205, 095.A-0240, 096.A-0090,
097.A-0160, and 098.A-0017. This paper also makes use of observations made with
the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope obtained at STScI. This research made use of
the following programs and open-source packages for Python and we are thankful to
their developers: DS9 (Joye & Mandel 2003), Astropy (Astropy Collaboration 2013,
2018), APLpy (Robitaille & Bressert 2012), iPython (Pérez & Granger 2007), numpy
(van der Walt et al. 2011), matplotlib (Hunter 2007), and SciPy (Jones et al. 2001).'
article_number: A80
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: K. B.
full_name: Schmidt, K. B.
last_name: Schmidt
- first_name: J.
full_name: Kerutt, J.
last_name: Kerutt
- first_name: L.
full_name: Wisotzki, L.
last_name: Wisotzki
- first_name: T.
full_name: Urrutia, T.
last_name: Urrutia
- first_name: A.
full_name: Feltre, A.
last_name: Feltre
- first_name: M. V.
full_name: Maseda, M. V.
last_name: Maseda
- first_name: T.
full_name: Nanayakkara, T.
last_name: Nanayakkara
- first_name: R.
full_name: Bacon, R.
last_name: Bacon
- first_name: L. A.
full_name: Boogaard, L. A.
last_name: Boogaard
- first_name: S.
full_name: Conseil, S.
last_name: Conseil
- first_name: T.
full_name: Contini, T.
last_name: Contini
- first_name: E. C.
full_name: Herenz, E. C.
last_name: Herenz
- first_name: W.
full_name: Kollatschny, W.
last_name: Kollatschny
- first_name: M.
full_name: Krumpe, M.
last_name: Krumpe
- first_name: F.
full_name: Leclercq, F.
last_name: Leclercq
- first_name: G.
full_name: Mahler, G.
last_name: Mahler
- 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: V.
full_name: Mauerhofer, V.
last_name: Mauerhofer
- first_name: J.
full_name: Richard, J.
last_name: Richard
- first_name: J.
full_name: Schaye, J.
last_name: Schaye
citation:
ama: Schmidt KB, Kerutt J, Wisotzki L, et al. Recovery and analysis of rest-frame
UV emission lines in 2052 galaxies observed with MUSE at 1.5 < z < 6.4.
Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2021;654. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202140876
apa: Schmidt, K. B., Kerutt, J., Wisotzki, L., Urrutia, T., Feltre, A., Maseda,
M. V., … Schaye, J. (2021). Recovery and analysis of rest-frame UV emission lines
in 2052 galaxies observed with MUSE at 1.5 < z < 6.4. Astronomy &
Astrophysics. EDP Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140876
chicago: Schmidt, K. B., J. Kerutt, L. Wisotzki, T. Urrutia, A. Feltre, M. V. Maseda,
T. Nanayakkara, et al. “Recovery and Analysis of Rest-Frame UV Emission Lines
in 2052 Galaxies Observed with MUSE at 1.5 < z < 6.4.” Astronomy &
Astrophysics. EDP Sciences, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140876.
ieee: K. B. Schmidt et al., “Recovery and analysis of rest-frame UV emission
lines in 2052 galaxies observed with MUSE at 1.5 < z < 6.4,” Astronomy
& Astrophysics, vol. 654. EDP Sciences, 2021.
ista: Schmidt KB, Kerutt J, Wisotzki L, Urrutia T, Feltre A, Maseda MV, Nanayakkara
T, Bacon R, Boogaard LA, Conseil S, Contini T, Herenz EC, Kollatschny W, Krumpe
M, Leclercq F, Mahler G, Matthee JJ, Mauerhofer V, Richard J, Schaye J. 2021.
Recovery and analysis of rest-frame UV emission lines in 2052 galaxies observed
with MUSE at 1.5 < z < 6.4. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 654, A80.
mla: Schmidt, K. B., et al. “Recovery and Analysis of Rest-Frame UV Emission Lines
in 2052 Galaxies Observed with MUSE at 1.5 < z < 6.4.” Astronomy &
Astrophysics, vol. 654, A80, EDP Sciences, 2021, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202140876.
short: K.B. Schmidt, J. Kerutt, L. Wisotzki, T. Urrutia, A. Feltre, M.V. Maseda,
T. Nanayakkara, R. Bacon, L.A. Boogaard, S. Conseil, T. Contini, E.C. Herenz,
W. Kollatschny, M. Krumpe, F. Leclercq, G. Mahler, J.J. Matthee, V. Mauerhofer,
J. Richard, J. Schaye, Astronomy & Astrophysics 654 (2021).
date_created: 2022-07-06T08:49:03Z
date_published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-07-19T09:34:36Z
day: '15'
doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140876
extern: '1'
external_id:
arxiv:
- '2108.01713'
intvolume: ' 654'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 'ultraviolet: galaxies / galaxies: high-redshift / galaxies: ISM / ISM: lines and
bands / methods: observational / techniques: imaging spectroscopy'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01713
month: '10'
oa: 1
oa_version: Published Version
publication: Astronomy & Astrophysics
publication_identifier:
eissn:
- 1432-0746
issn:
- 0004-6361
publication_status: published
publisher: EDP Sciences
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Recovery and analysis of rest-frame UV emission lines in 2052 galaxies observed
with MUSE at 1.5 < z < 6.4
type: journal_article
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 654
year: '2021'
...
---
_id: '11523'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: We present the first results from the X-SHOOTER Lyman α survey at z = 2 (XLS-z2).
XLS-z2 is a deep spectroscopic survey of 35 Lyman α emitters (LAEs) utilizing
≈90 h of exposure time with Very Large Telescope/X-SHOOTER and covers rest-frame
Ly α to H α emission with R ≈ 4000. We present the sample selection, the observations,
and the data reduction. Systemic redshifts are measured from rest-frame optical
lines for 33/35 sources. In the stacked spectrum, our LAEs are characterized by
an interstellar medium with little dust, a low metallicity, and a high ionization
state. The ionizing sources are young hot stars that power strong emission lines
in the optical and high-ionization lines in the ultraviolet (UV). The LAEs exhibit
clumpy UV morphologies and have outflowing kinematics with blueshifted Si II absorption,
a broad [O III] component, and a red-skewed Ly α line. Typically, 30 per cent
of the Ly α photons escape, of which one quarter on the blue side of the systemic
velocity. A fraction of Ly α photons escape directly at the systemic suggesting
clear channels enabling an ≈10 per cent escape of ionizing photons, consistent
with an inference based on Mg II. A combination of a low effective H I column
density, a low dust content, and young starburst determines whether a star-forming
galaxy is observed as an LAE. The first is possibly related to outflows and/or
a fortunate viewing angle, while we find that the latter two in LAEs are typical
for their stellar mass of 109 M⊙.
acknowledgement: "We thank the referee for constructive comments and suggestions.
We thank Dawn Erb, Ruari Mackenzie, Ivan Oteo, Ryan Sanders, and Johannes Zabl for
useful discussions and suggestions. It is a pleasure to thank the ESO User Support,
in particular Giacomo Beccari, Carlo Manara, John Pritchard, Marina Rejkuba, and
Lowell Tacconi-Garman for assistance in the preparation and execution of the observations.
Based on observations obtained with the VLT, programs 084.A-0303, 088.A-0672, 091.A-0413,
091.A-0546, 092.A0774, 097.A-0153, 098.A-0819, 099.A-0758, 099.A-0254, 101.B0779,
and 102.A-0652. 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 CALET and the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit on behalf of
the UltraVISTA consortium. Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA HST through
programs 9133, 9367, 11694, and 12471, and obtained from the Hubble Legacy Archive,
which is a collaboration between the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI/NASA),
the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF/ESA), and the Canadian
Astronomy Data Centre (CADC/NRC/CSA). This work is based on observations taken by
the CANDELS Multi-Cycle Treasury Program with the NASA/ESA HST, which is operated
by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract
NAS5-26555. MG was supported by NASA through the NASA Hubble Fellowship grant HST-HF2-51409
and acknowledges support from HST grants\r\nHST-GO-15643.017-A, HST-AR-15039.003-A,
and XSEDE grant TG-AST180036. GP acknowledges support from the Netherlands Research
School for Astronomy (NOVA). RA acknowledges the support of ANID FONDECYT Regular
Grant 1202007. We gratefully acknowledge the PYTHON programming language, its NUMPY,
MATPLOTLIB, SCIPY, LMFIT (Jones et al. 2001; Hunter 2007; van der Walt, Colbert
& Varoquaux 2011), PANDAS (McKinney 2010), and ASTROPY (Astropy Collaboration 2013)
packages, and the TOPCAT analysis tool (Taylor 2013). Dedicated to the memory of
A. C. J.Matthee (1953–2020)."
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: Matthew
full_name: Hayes, Matthew
last_name: Hayes
- first_name: Gabriele
full_name: Pezzulli, Gabriele
last_name: Pezzulli
- first_name: Max
full_name: Gronke, Max
last_name: Gronke
- first_name: Daniel
full_name: Schaerer, Daniel
last_name: Schaerer
- first_name: Rohan P
full_name: Naidu, Rohan P
last_name: Naidu
- first_name: Huub
full_name: Röttgering, Huub
last_name: Röttgering
- first_name: João
full_name: Calhau, João
last_name: Calhau
- first_name: Ana
full_name: Paulino-Afonso, Ana
last_name: Paulino-Afonso
- first_name: Sérgio
full_name: Santos, Sérgio
last_name: Santos
- first_name: Ricardo
full_name: Amorín, Ricardo
last_name: Amorín
citation:
ama: 'Matthee JJ, Sobral D, Hayes M, et al. The X-SHOOTER Lyman α survey at z =
2 (XLS-z2) I: What makes a galaxy a Lyman α emitter? Monthly Notices of the
Royal Astronomical Society. 2021;505(1):1382-1412. doi:10.1093/mnras/stab1304'
apa: 'Matthee, J. J., Sobral, D., Hayes, M., Pezzulli, G., Gronke, M., Schaerer,
D., … Amorín, R. (2021). The X-SHOOTER Lyman α survey at z = 2 (XLS-z2) I: What
makes a galaxy a Lyman α emitter? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1304'
chicago: 'Matthee, Jorryt J, David Sobral, Matthew Hayes, Gabriele Pezzulli, Max
Gronke, Daniel Schaerer, Rohan P Naidu, et al. “The X-SHOOTER Lyman α Survey at
z = 2 (XLS-Z2) I: What Makes a Galaxy a Lyman α Emitter?” Monthly Notices of
the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1304.'
ieee: 'J. J. Matthee et al., “The X-SHOOTER Lyman α survey at z = 2 (XLS-z2)
I: What makes a galaxy a Lyman α emitter?,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society, vol. 505, no. 1. Oxford University Press, pp. 1382–1412, 2021.'
ista: 'Matthee JJ, Sobral D, Hayes M, Pezzulli G, Gronke M, Schaerer D, Naidu RP,
Röttgering H, Calhau J, Paulino-Afonso A, Santos S, Amorín R. 2021. The X-SHOOTER
Lyman α survey at z = 2 (XLS-z2) I: What makes a galaxy a Lyman α emitter? Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(1), 1382–1412.'
mla: 'Matthee, Jorryt J., et al. “The X-SHOOTER Lyman α Survey at z = 2 (XLS-Z2)
I: What Makes a Galaxy a Lyman α Emitter?” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society, vol. 505, no. 1, Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 1382–412, doi:10.1093/mnras/stab1304.'
short: J.J. Matthee, D. Sobral, M. Hayes, G. Pezzulli, M. Gronke, D. Schaerer, R.P.
Naidu, H. Röttgering, J. Calhau, A. Paulino-Afonso, S. Santos, R. Amorín, Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 505 (2021) 1382–1412.
date_created: 2022-07-07T09:33:39Z
date_published: 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-08-18T10:49:00Z
day: '01'
doi: 10.1093/mnras/stab1304
extern: '1'
external_id:
arxiv:
- '2102.07779'
intvolume: ' 505'
issue: '1'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 'galaxies: formation'
- 'galaxies: ISM'
- 'galaxies: starburst'
- dark ages
- reionization
- first stars
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07779
month: '07'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 1382-1412
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: 'The X-SHOOTER Lyman α survey at z = 2 (XLS-z2) I: What makes a galaxy a Lyman
α emitter?'
type: journal_article
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 505
year: '2021'
...
---
_id: '11531'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: While low-luminosity galaxies dominate number counts at all redshifts, their
contribution to cosmic reionization is poorly understood due to a lack of knowledge
of their physical properties. We isolate a sample of 35 z ≈ 4–5 continuum-faint
Lyman-α emitters from deep VLT/MUSE spectroscopy and directly measure their H α
emission using stacked Spitzer/IRAC Ch. 1 photometry. Based on Hubble Space Telescope
imaging, we determine that the average UV continuum magnitude is fainter than
−16 (≈ 0.01 L⋆), implying a median Lyman-α equivalent width of 259 Å. By combining
the H α measurement with the UV magnitude, we determine the ionizing photon production
efficiency, ξion, a first for such faint galaxies. The measurement of log10 (ξion
[Hz erg−1]) = 26.28 (+0.28−0.40) is in excess of literature measurements of
both continuum- and emission line-selected samples, implying a more efficient
production of ionizing photons in these lower luminosity, Lyman-α-selected systems.
We conclude that this elevated efficiency can be explained by stellar populations
with metallicities between 4 × 10−4 and 0.008, with light-weighted ages less than
3 Myr.
acknowledgement: 'We would like to thank the anonymous referee for a thoughtful report
and suggestions that have improved this manuscript. We are also grateful to everyone
involved in the Spitzer Space Telescope mission and everyone at the Spitzer Science
Center: we are truly fortunate to have been able to use data from this facility.
J. B. acknowledges support by FCT/MCTES through national funds by this grant UID/FIS/04434/2019
and through the Investigador FCT contract no. IF/01654/2014/CP1215/CT0003. S. C.
gratefully acknowledges support from Swiss National Science Foundation grant PP00P2
163824. We would also like to thank Mauro Stefanon for his assistance with de-blending
the IRAC photometry, Pieter van Dokkum for a number of useful suggestions, and Daniel
Schaerer for information regarding the stellar population models. This study is
based on observations made with ESO telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory
under programs IDs 094.A-2089(B), 095.A0010(A), 096.A-0045(A), and 096.A-0045(B).'
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Michael V
full_name: Maseda, Michael V
last_name: Maseda
- first_name: Roland
full_name: Bacon, Roland
last_name: Bacon
- first_name: Daniel
full_name: Lam, Daniel
last_name: Lam
- 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: Jarle
full_name: Brinchmann, Jarle
last_name: Brinchmann
- first_name: Joop
full_name: Schaye, Joop
last_name: Schaye
- first_name: Ivo
full_name: Labbe, Ivo
last_name: Labbe
- first_name: Kasper B
full_name: Schmidt, Kasper B
last_name: Schmidt
- first_name: Leindert
full_name: Boogaard, Leindert
last_name: Boogaard
- first_name: Rychard
full_name: Bouwens, Rychard
last_name: Bouwens
- first_name: Sebastiano
full_name: Cantalupo, Sebastiano
last_name: Cantalupo
- first_name: Marijn
full_name: Franx, Marijn
last_name: Franx
- first_name: Takuya
full_name: Hashimoto, Takuya
last_name: Hashimoto
- first_name: Hanae
full_name: Inami, Hanae
last_name: Inami
- first_name: Haruka
full_name: Kusakabe, Haruka
last_name: Kusakabe
- first_name: Guillaume
full_name: Mahler, Guillaume
last_name: Mahler
- first_name: Themiya
full_name: Nanayakkara, Themiya
last_name: Nanayakkara
- first_name: Johan
full_name: Richard, Johan
last_name: Richard
- first_name: Lutz
full_name: Wisotzki, Lutz
last_name: Wisotzki
citation:
ama: Maseda MV, Bacon R, Lam D, et al. Elevated ionizing photon production efficiency
in faint high-equivalent-width Lyman-α emitters. Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society. 2020;493(4):5120-5130. doi:10.1093/mnras/staa622
apa: Maseda, M. V., Bacon, R., Lam, D., Matthee, J. J., Brinchmann, J., Schaye,
J., … Wisotzki, L. (2020). Elevated ionizing photon production efficiency in faint
high-equivalent-width Lyman-α emitters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa622
chicago: Maseda, Michael V, Roland Bacon, Daniel Lam, Jorryt J Matthee, Jarle Brinchmann,
Joop Schaye, Ivo Labbe, et al. “Elevated Ionizing Photon Production Efficiency
in Faint High-Equivalent-Width Lyman-α Emitters.” Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa622.
ieee: M. V. Maseda et al., “Elevated ionizing photon production efficiency
in faint high-equivalent-width Lyman-α emitters,” Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, vol. 493, no. 4. Oxford University Press, pp. 5120–5130,
2020.
ista: Maseda MV, Bacon R, Lam D, Matthee JJ, Brinchmann J, Schaye J, Labbe I, Schmidt
KB, Boogaard L, Bouwens R, Cantalupo S, Franx M, Hashimoto T, Inami H, Kusakabe
H, Mahler G, Nanayakkara T, Richard J, Wisotzki L. 2020. Elevated ionizing photon
production efficiency in faint high-equivalent-width Lyman-α emitters. Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 493(4), 5120–5130.
mla: Maseda, Michael V., et al. “Elevated Ionizing Photon Production Efficiency
in Faint High-Equivalent-Width Lyman-α Emitters.” Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, vol. 493, no. 4, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp.
5120–30, doi:10.1093/mnras/staa622.
short: M.V. Maseda, R. Bacon, D. Lam, J.J. Matthee, J. Brinchmann, J. Schaye, I.
Labbe, K.B. Schmidt, L. Boogaard, R. Bouwens, S. Cantalupo, M. Franx, T. Hashimoto,
H. Inami, H. Kusakabe, G. Mahler, T. Nanayakkara, J. Richard, L. Wisotzki, Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 493 (2020) 5120–5130.
date_created: 2022-07-07T10:46:41Z
date_published: 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-08-18T11:23:27Z
day: '01'
doi: 10.1093/mnras/staa622
extern: '1'
external_id:
arxiv:
- '2002.11117'
intvolume: ' 493'
issue: '4'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 'Galaxies: evolution'
- 'Galaxies: high-redshift'
- 'Galaxies: ISM'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa622
month: '04'
oa: 1
oa_version: Published Version
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publication: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
publication_identifier:
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issn:
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publication_status: published
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scopus_import: '1'
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title: Elevated ionizing photon production efficiency in faint high-equivalent-width
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type: journal_article
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volume: 493
year: '2020'
...
---
_id: '11499'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Deep optical spectroscopic surveys of galaxies provide a unique opportunity
to investigate rest-frame ultra-violet (UV) emission line properties of galaxies
at z ∼ 2 − 4.5. Here we combine VLT/MUSE Guaranteed Time Observations of the Hubble
Deep Field South, Ultra Deep Field, COSMOS, and several quasar fields with other
publicly available data from VLT/VIMOS and VLT/FORS2 to construct a catalogue
of He II λ1640 emitters at z ≳ 2. The deepest areas of our MUSE pointings reach
a 3σ line flux limit of 3.1 × 10−19 erg s−1 cm−2. After discarding broad-line
active galactic nuclei, we find 13 He II λ1640 detections from MUSE with a median
MUV = −20.1 and 21 tentative He II λ1640 detections from other public surveys.
Excluding Lyα, all except two galaxies in our sample show at least one other rest-UV
emission line, with C III] λ1907, λ1909 being the most prominent. We use multi-wavelength
data available in the Hubble legacy fields to derive basic galaxy properties of
our sample through spectral energy distribution fitting techniques. Taking advantage
of the high-quality spectra obtained by MUSE (∼10 − 30 h of exposure time per
pointing), we use photo-ionisation models to study the rest-UV emission line diagnostics
of the He II λ1640 emitters. Line ratios of our sample can be reproduced by moderately
sub-solar photo-ionisation models, however, we find that including effects of
binary stars lead to degeneracies in most free parameters. Even after considering
extra ionising photons produced by extreme sub-solar metallicity binary stellar
models, photo-ionisation models are unable to reproduce rest-frame He II λ1640
equivalent widths (∼0.2 − 10 Å), thus additional mechanisms are necessary in models
to match the observed He II λ1640 properties.
acknowledgement: 'The authors wish to thank the referee for constructive comments
that improved the paper substantially. We thank the BPASS team for making the stellar
population models available. We thank Elizabeth Stanway, Claus Leitherer, Daniel
Schaerer, Jorick Vink, and Nell Byler for insightful discussions. We thank the Lorentz
Centre and the scientific organizers of the Characterizing galaxies with spectroscopy
with a view for JWST workshop held at the Lorentz Centre in 2017 October, which
promoted useful discussions in the wider community. TN, JB, and RB acknowledges
the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) top grant TOP1.16.057.
AF acknowledges support from the ERC via an Advanced Grant under grant agreement
no. 339659-MUSICOS. JB acknowledges support by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
(FCT) through national funds (UID/FIS/04434/2013) and Investigador FCT contract
IF/01654/2014/CP1215/CT0003, and by FEDER through COMPETE2020 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007672).
JR acknowledges support from the ERC Starting grant 336736 (CALENDS). This research
made use of astropy (http://www.astropy.org) a community-developed core Python package
for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration 2013, 2018) and pandas (McKinney 2010). Figures
were generated using matplotlib (Hunter 2007) and seaborn (https://seaborn.pydata.org).
Facilities: VLT (MUSE).'
article_number: A89
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Themiya
full_name: Nanayakkara, Themiya
last_name: Nanayakkara
- first_name: Jarle
full_name: Brinchmann, Jarle
last_name: Brinchmann
- first_name: Leindert
full_name: Boogaard, Leindert
last_name: Boogaard
- first_name: Rychard
full_name: Bouwens, Rychard
last_name: Bouwens
- first_name: Sebastiano
full_name: Cantalupo, Sebastiano
last_name: Cantalupo
- first_name: Anna
full_name: Feltre, Anna
last_name: Feltre
- first_name: Wolfram
full_name: Kollatschny, Wolfram
last_name: Kollatschny
- first_name: Raffaella Anna
full_name: Marino, Raffaella Anna
last_name: Marino
- first_name: Michael
full_name: Maseda, Michael
last_name: Maseda
- 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: Mieke
full_name: Paalvast, Mieke
last_name: Paalvast
- first_name: Johan
full_name: Richard, Johan
last_name: Richard
- first_name: Anne
full_name: Verhamme, Anne
last_name: Verhamme
citation:
ama: Nanayakkara T, Brinchmann J, Boogaard L, et al. Exploring He II λ1640 emission
line properties at z ∼2−4. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2019;648. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201834565
apa: Nanayakkara, T., Brinchmann, J., Boogaard, L., Bouwens, R., Cantalupo, S.,
Feltre, A., … Verhamme, A. (2019). Exploring He II λ1640 emission line properties
at z ∼2−4. Astronomy & Astrophysics. EDP Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834565
chicago: Nanayakkara, Themiya, Jarle Brinchmann, Leindert Boogaard, Rychard Bouwens,
Sebastiano Cantalupo, Anna Feltre, Wolfram Kollatschny, et al. “Exploring He II Λ1640
Emission Line Properties at z ∼2−4.” Astronomy & Astrophysics. EDP
Sciences, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834565.
ieee: T. Nanayakkara et al., “Exploring He II λ1640 emission line properties
at z ∼2−4,” Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 648. EDP Sciences, 2019.
ista: Nanayakkara T, Brinchmann J, Boogaard L, Bouwens R, Cantalupo S, Feltre A,
Kollatschny W, Marino RA, Maseda M, Matthee JJ, Paalvast M, Richard J, Verhamme
A. 2019. Exploring He II λ1640 emission line properties at z ∼2−4. Astronomy &
Astrophysics. 648, A89.
mla: Nanayakkara, Themiya, et al. “Exploring He II Λ1640 Emission Line Properties
at z ∼2−4.” Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 648, A89, EDP Sciences,
2019, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201834565.
short: T. Nanayakkara, J. Brinchmann, L. Boogaard, R. Bouwens, S. Cantalupo, A.
Feltre, W. Kollatschny, R.A. Marino, M. Maseda, J.J. Matthee, M. Paalvast, J.
Richard, A. Verhamme, Astronomy & Astrophysics 648 (2019).
date_created: 2022-07-06T09:07:06Z
date_published: 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-07-19T09:36:08Z
day: '16'
doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201834565
extern: '1'
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1902.05960'
intvolume: ' 648'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 'galaxies: ISM / galaxies: star formation / galaxies: evolution / galaxies: high-redshift'
language:
- iso: eng
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- open_access: '1'
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05960
month: '04'
oa: 1
oa_version: Published Version
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issn:
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related_material:
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- relation: erratum
url: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834565e
scopus_import: '1'
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title: Exploring He II λ1640 emission line properties at z ∼2−4
type: journal_article
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year: '2019'
...
---
_id: '11507'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'Lyman-α (Lyα) is intrinsically the brightest line emitted from active galaxies.
While it originates from many physical processes, for star-forming galaxies the
intrinsic Lyα luminosity is a direct tracer of the Lyman-continuum (LyC) radiation
produced by the most massive O- and early-type B-stars (M⋆ ≳ 10 M⊙) with lifetimes
of a few Myrs. As such, Lyα luminosity should be an excellent instantaneous star
formation rate (SFR) indicator. However, its resonant nature and susceptibility
to dust as a rest-frame UV photon makes Lyα very hard to interpret due to the
uncertain Lyα escape fraction, fesc, Lyα. Here we explore results from the CAlibrating
LYMan-α with Hα (CALYMHA) survey at z = 2.2, follow-up of Lyα emitters (LAEs)
at z = 2.2 − 2.6 and a z ∼ 0−0.3 compilation of LAEs to directly measure fesc, Lyα
with Hα. We derive a simple empirical relation that robustly retrieves fesc, Lyα
as a function of Lyα rest-frame EW (EW0): fesc,Lyα = 0.0048 EW0[Å] ± 0.05 and
we show that it constrains a well-defined anti-correlation between ionisation
efficiency (ξion) and dust extinction in LAEs. Observed Lyα luminosities and EW0
are easy measurable quantities at high redshift, thus making our relation a practical
tool to estimate intrinsic Lyα and LyC luminosities under well controlled and
simple assumptions. Our results allow observed Lyα luminosities to be used to
compute SFRs for LAEs at z ∼ 0−2.6 within ±0.2 dex of the Hα dust corrected SFRs.
We apply our empirical SFR(Lyα,EW0) calibration to several sources at z ≥ 2.6
to find that star-forming LAEs have SFRs typically ranging from 0.1 to 20 M⊙ yr−1
and that our calibration might be even applicable for the most luminous LAEs within
the epoch of re-ionisation. Our results imply high ionisation efficiencies (log10[ξion/Hz erg−1]
= 25.4−25.6) and low dust content in LAEs across cosmic time, and will be easily
tested with future observations with JWST which can obtain Hα and Hβ measurements
for high-redshift LAEs.'
acknowledgement: We thank the anonymous referees for multiple comments and suggestions
which have improved the manuscript. JM acknowledges the support of a Huygens PhD
fellowship from Leiden University. We have benefited greatly from the publicly available
programming language PYTHON, including the NUMPY & SCIPY (Van Der Walt et al. 2011;
Jones et al. 2001), MATPLOTLIB (Hunter 2007) and ASTROPY (Astropy Collaboration
2013) packages, and the TOPCAT analysis program (Taylor 2013). The results and samples
of LAEs used for this paper are publicly available (see e.g. Sobral et al. 2017,
2018a) and we also provide the toy model used as a PYTHON script.
article_number: A157
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: David
full_name: Sobral, David
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
citation:
ama: 'Sobral D, Matthee JJ. Predicting Lyα escape fractions with a simple observable:
Lyα in emission as an empirically calibrated star formation rate indicator. Astronomy
& Astrophysics. 2019;623. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833075'
apa: 'Sobral, D., & Matthee, J. J. (2019). Predicting Lyα escape fractions with
a simple observable: Lyα in emission as an empirically calibrated star formation
rate indicator. Astronomy & Astrophysics. EDP Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833075'
chicago: 'Sobral, David, and Jorryt J Matthee. “Predicting Lyα Escape Fractions
with a Simple Observable: Lyα in Emission as an Empirically Calibrated Star Formation
Rate Indicator.” Astronomy & Astrophysics. EDP Sciences, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833075.'
ieee: 'D. Sobral and J. J. Matthee, “Predicting Lyα escape fractions with a simple
observable: Lyα in emission as an empirically calibrated star formation rate indicator,”
Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 623. EDP Sciences, 2019.'
ista: 'Sobral D, Matthee JJ. 2019. Predicting Lyα escape fractions with a simple
observable: Lyα in emission as an empirically calibrated star formation rate indicator.
Astronomy & Astrophysics. 623, A157.'
mla: 'Sobral, David, and Jorryt J. Matthee. “Predicting Lyα Escape Fractions with
a Simple Observable: Lyα in Emission as an Empirically Calibrated Star Formation
Rate Indicator.” Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 623, A157, EDP Sciences,
2019, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833075.'
short: D. Sobral, J.J. Matthee, Astronomy & Astrophysics 623 (2019).
date_created: 2022-07-06T11:08:16Z
date_published: 2019-03-26T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-07-19T09:37:20Z
day: '26'
doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833075
extern: '1'
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1803.08923'
intvolume: ' 623'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 'galaxies: high-redshift / galaxies: star formation / galaxies: statistics / galaxies:
evolution / galaxies: formation / galaxies: ISM'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08923
month: '03'
oa: 1
oa_version: Published Version
publication: Astronomy & Astrophysics
publication_identifier:
eissn:
- 1432-0746
issn:
- 0004-6361
publication_status: published
publisher: EDP Sciences
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: 'Predicting Lyα escape fractions with a simple observable: Lyα in emission
as an empirically calibrated star formation rate indicator'
type: journal_article
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volume: 623
year: '2019'
...
---
_id: '11541'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: We present new Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/WFC3 observations and re-analyse
VLT data to unveil the continuum, variability, and rest-frame ultraviolet (UV)
lines of the multiple UV clumps of the most luminous Lyα emitter at z = 6.6, CR7
(COSMOS Redshift 7). Our re-reduced, flux-calibrated X-SHOOTER spectra of CR7
reveal an He II emission line in observations obtained along the major axis of
Lyα emission with the best seeing conditions. He II is spatially offset by ≈+0.8
arcsec from the peak of Lyα emission, and it is found towards clump B. Our WFC3
grism spectra detects the UV continuum of CR7’s clump A, yielding a power law
with β=−2.5+0.6−0.7 and MUV=−21.87+0.25−0.20. No significant variability is found
for any of the UV clumps on their own, but there is tentative (≈2.2 σ) brightening
of CR7 in F110W as a whole from 2012 to 2017. HST grism data fail to robustly
detect rest-frame UV lines in any of the clumps, implying fluxes ≲2×10−17 erg s−1 cm−2
(3σ). We perform CLOUDY modelling to constrain the metallicity and the ionizing
nature of CR7. CR7 seems to be actively forming stars without any clear active
galactic nucleus activity in clump A, consistent with a metallicity of ∼0.05–0.2 Z⊙.
Component C or an interclump component between B and C may host a high ionization
source. Our results highlight the need for spatially resolved information to study
the formation and assembly of early galaxies.
acknowledgement: We thank the anonymous reviewer for the numerous detailed comments
that led us to greatly improve the quality, extent, and statistical robustness of
this work. DS acknowledges financial support from the Netherlands Organisation for
Scientific research through a Veni fellowship. JM acknowledges the support of a
Huygens PhD fellowship from Leiden University. AF acknowledges support from the
ERC Advanced Grant INTERSTELLAR H2020/740120. BD acknowledges financial support
from NASA through the Astrophysics Data Analysis Program, grant number NNX12AE20G
and the National Science Foundation, grant number 1716907. We are thankful for several
discussions and constructive comments from Johannes Zabl, Eros Vanzella, Bo Milvang-Jensen,
Henry McCracken, Max Gronke, Mark Dijkstra, Richard Ellis, and Nicolas Laporte.
We also thank Umar Burhanudin and Izzy Garland for taking part in the XGAL internship
in Lancaster and for exploring the HST grism data independently. Based on observations
obtained with HST/WFC3 programs 12578, 14495, and 14596. Based on observations of
the National Japanese Observatory with the Suprime-Cam on the Subaru telescope (S14A-086)
on the big island 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. Based on data
products from observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory
under ESO programme IDs 294.A-5018, 294.A-5039, 092.A 0786, 093.A-0561, 097.A0043,
097.A-0943, 098.A-0819, 298.A-5012, and 179.A-2005, and on data products produced
by TERAPIX and the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit on behalf of the UltraVISTA consortium.
The authors acknowledge the award of service time (SW2014b20) on the William Herschel
Telescope (WHT). WHT and its service programme are operated on the island of La
Palma by the Isaac Newton Group in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos
of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias. This research was supported by the
Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics of the DFG cluster of excellence
‘Origin and Structure of the Universe’. We have benefitted immensely from the public
available programming language PYTHON, including NUMPY and SCIPY (Jones et al. 2001;
Van Der Walt, Colbert & Varoquaux 2011), MATPLOTLIB (Hunter 2007), ASTROPY (Astropy
Collaboration et al. 2013), and the TOPCAT analysis program (Taylor 2013). This
research has made use of the VizieR catalogue access tool, CDS, Strasbourg, France.
All data used for this paper are publicly available, and we make all reduced data
available with the refereed paper.
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: David
full_name: Sobral, David
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: Gabriel
full_name: Brammer, Gabriel
last_name: Brammer
- first_name: Andrea
full_name: Ferrara, Andrea
last_name: Ferrara
- first_name: Lara
full_name: Alegre, Lara
last_name: Alegre
- first_name: Huub
full_name: Röttgering, Huub
last_name: Röttgering
- first_name: Daniel
full_name: Schaerer, Daniel
last_name: Schaerer
- first_name: Bahram
full_name: Mobasher, Bahram
last_name: Mobasher
- first_name: Behnam
full_name: Darvish, Behnam
last_name: Darvish
citation:
ama: Sobral D, Matthee JJ, Brammer G, et al. On the nature and physical conditions
of the luminous Ly α emitter CR7 and its rest-frame UV components. Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2019;482(2):2422-2441. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty2779
apa: Sobral, D., Matthee, J. J., Brammer, G., Ferrara, A., Alegre, L., Röttgering,
H., … Darvish, B. (2019). On the nature and physical conditions of the luminous
Ly α emitter CR7 and its rest-frame UV components. Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2779
chicago: Sobral, David, Jorryt J Matthee, Gabriel Brammer, Andrea Ferrara, Lara
Alegre, Huub Röttgering, Daniel Schaerer, Bahram Mobasher, and Behnam Darvish.
“On the Nature and Physical Conditions of the Luminous Ly α Emitter CR7 and Its
Rest-Frame UV Components.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Oxford University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2779.
ieee: D. Sobral et al., “On the nature and physical conditions of the luminous
Ly α emitter CR7 and its rest-frame UV components,” Monthly Notices of the
Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 482, no. 2. Oxford University Press, pp.
2422–2441, 2019.
ista: Sobral D, Matthee JJ, Brammer G, Ferrara A, Alegre L, Röttgering H, Schaerer
D, Mobasher B, Darvish B. 2019. On the nature and physical conditions of the luminous
Ly α emitter CR7 and its rest-frame UV components. Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society. 482(2), 2422–2441.
mla: Sobral, David, et al. “On the Nature and Physical Conditions of the Luminous
Ly α Emitter CR7 and Its Rest-Frame UV Components.” Monthly Notices of the
Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 482, no. 2, Oxford University Press, 2019,
pp. 2422–41, doi:10.1093/mnras/sty2779.
short: D. Sobral, J.J. Matthee, G. Brammer, A. Ferrara, L. Alegre, H. Röttgering,
D. Schaerer, B. Mobasher, B. Darvish, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society 482 (2019) 2422–2441.
date_created: 2022-07-08T10:40:05Z
date_published: 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-08-19T06:49:36Z
day: '01'
doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty2779
extern: '1'
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1710.08422'
intvolume: ' 482'
issue: '2'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 'galaxies: evolution'
- 'galaxies: high-redshift'
- 'galaxies: ISM'
- 'cosmology: observations'
- dark ages
- reionization
- first stars
- early Universe
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08422
month: '01'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 2422-2441
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: On the nature and physical conditions of the luminous Ly α emitter CR7 and
its rest-frame UV components
type: journal_article
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volume: 482
year: '2019'
...
---
_id: '11555'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: We investigate the morphology of the [C II] emission in a sample of ‘normal’
star-forming galaxies at 5 < z < 7.2 in relation to their UV (rest-frame) counterpart.
We use new Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) observations of
galaxies at z ∼ 6–7, as well as a careful re-analysis of archival ALMA data. In
total 29 galaxies were analysed, 21 of which are detected in [C II]. For several
of the latter the [C II] emission breaks into multiple components. Only a fraction
of these [C II] components, if any, is associated with the primary UV systems,
while the bulk of the [C II] emission is associated either with fainter UV components,
or not associated with any UV counterpart at the current limits. By taking into
account the presence of all these components, we find that the L[CII]–SFR (star
formation rate) relation at early epochs is fully consistent with the local relation,
but it has a dispersion of 0.48 ± 0.07 dex, which is about two times larger than
observed locally. We also find that the deviation from the local L[CII]–SFR relation
has a weak anticorrelation with the EW(Ly α). The morphological analysis also
reveals that [C II] emission is generally much more extended than the UV emission.
As a consequence, these primordial galaxies are characterized by a [C II] surface
brightness generally much lower than expected from the local Σ[CII]−ΣSFR relation.
These properties are likely a consequence of a combination of different effects,
namely gas metallicity, [C II] emission from obscured star-forming regions, strong
variations of the ionization parameter, and circumgalactic gas in accretion or
ejected by these primeval galaxies.
acknowledgement: "This paper makes use of the following ALMA data:\r\nADS/JAO.ALMA#2012.1.00719.S,
ADS/JAO.ALMA#2012.A.00040.S,\r\nADS/JAO.ALMA#2013.A.00433.S, ADS/JAO.ALMA#2011.0.00115.S,\r\nADS/JAO.ALMA#2012.1.00033.S,
ADS/JAO.ALMA#2012.1.00523.S,\r\nADS/JAO.ALMA#2013.1.00815.S, ADS/JAO.ALMA#2015.1.00834.S.,\r\nADS/JAO.ALMA#2015.1.01105.S,
AND ADS/JAO.ALMA#2016.1.01240.S\r\nwhich can be retrieved from the ALMA data archive:\r\nhttps://almascience.eso.org/
alma-data/archive. ALMA is a partnership of ESO (representing its member states),
NSF (USA) and NINS (Japan), together with NRC (Canada) and NSC and ASIAA (Taiwan),
in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. The Joint ALMA Observatory is operated
by ESO, AUI/NRAO, and NAOJ. We are grateful to G. Jones to for providing his [C
II] flux maps. RM and SC acknowledge support by the Science and Technology Facilities
Council (STFC). RM acknowledges ERC Advanced Grant 695671 ‘QUENCH’. AF acknowledges
support from the ERC Advanced Grant INTERSTELLAR H2020/740120."
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: S
full_name: Carniani, S
last_name: Carniani
- first_name: R
full_name: Maiolino, R
last_name: Maiolino
- first_name: R
full_name: Amorin, R
last_name: Amorin
- first_name: L
full_name: Pentericci, L
last_name: Pentericci
- first_name: A
full_name: Pallottini, A
last_name: Pallottini
- first_name: A
full_name: Ferrara, A
last_name: Ferrara
- first_name: C J
full_name: Willott, C J
last_name: Willott
- first_name: R
full_name: Smit, R
last_name: Smit
- 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: D
full_name: Sobral, D
last_name: Sobral
- first_name: P
full_name: Santini, P
last_name: Santini
- first_name: M
full_name: Castellano, M
last_name: Castellano
- first_name: S
full_name: De Barros, S
last_name: De Barros
- first_name: A
full_name: Fontana, A
last_name: Fontana
- first_name: A
full_name: Grazian, A
last_name: Grazian
- first_name: L
full_name: Guaita, L
last_name: Guaita
citation:
ama: Carniani S, Maiolino R, Amorin R, et al. Kiloparsec-scale gaseous clumps and
star formation at z = 5–7. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
2018;478(1):1170-1184. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty1088
apa: Carniani, S., Maiolino, R., Amorin, R., Pentericci, L., Pallottini, A., Ferrara,
A., … Guaita, L. (2018). Kiloparsec-scale gaseous clumps and star formation at
z = 5–7. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford University
Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1088
chicago: Carniani, S, R Maiolino, R Amorin, L Pentericci, A Pallottini, A Ferrara,
C J Willott, et al. “Kiloparsec-Scale Gaseous Clumps and Star Formation at z = 5–7.”
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press,
2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1088.
ieee: S. Carniani et al., “Kiloparsec-scale gaseous clumps and star formation
at z = 5–7,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 478,
no. 1. Oxford University Press, pp. 1170–1184, 2018.
ista: Carniani S, Maiolino R, Amorin R, Pentericci L, Pallottini A, Ferrara A, Willott
CJ, Smit R, Matthee JJ, Sobral D, Santini P, Castellano M, De Barros S, Fontana
A, Grazian A, Guaita L. 2018. Kiloparsec-scale gaseous clumps and star formation
at z = 5–7. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 478(1), 1170–1184.
mla: Carniani, S., et al. “Kiloparsec-Scale Gaseous Clumps and Star Formation at
z = 5–7.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 478,
no. 1, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 1170–84, doi:10.1093/mnras/sty1088.
short: S. Carniani, R. Maiolino, R. Amorin, L. Pentericci, A. Pallottini, A. Ferrara,
C.J. Willott, R. Smit, J.J. Matthee, D. Sobral, P. Santini, M. Castellano, S.
De Barros, A. Fontana, A. Grazian, L. Guaita, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society 478 (2018) 1170–1184.
date_created: 2022-07-11T08:05:42Z
date_published: 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-08-19T06:58:06Z
day: '01'
doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty1088
extern: '1'
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1712.03985'
intvolume: ' 478'
issue: '1'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 'galaxies: evolution'
- 'galaxies: high-redshift'
- 'galaxies: ISM'
- 'galaxies: formation'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.03985
month: '07'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 1170-1184
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: Kiloparsec-scale gaseous clumps and star formation at z = 5–7
type: journal_article
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 478
year: '2018'
...
---
_id: '11557'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Deep narrow-band surveys have revealed a large population of faint Ly α emitters
(LAEs) in the distant Universe, but relatively little is known about the most
luminous sources (LLyα≳1042.7 erg s−1; LLyα≳L∗Lyα). Here we present the spectroscopic
follow-up of 21 luminous LAEs at z ∼ 2–3 found with panoramic narrow-band surveys
over five independent extragalactic fields (≈4 × 106 Mpc3 surveyed at z ∼ 2.2
and z ∼ 3.1). We use WHT/ISIS, Keck/DEIMOS, and VLT/X-SHOOTER to study these sources
using high ionization UV lines. Luminous LAEs at z ∼ 2–3 have blue UV slopes (β=−2.0+0.3−0.1)
and high Ly α escape fractions (50+20−15 per cent) and span five orders of magnitude
in UV luminosity (MUV ≈ −19 to −24). Many (70 per cent) show at least one high
ionization rest-frame UV line such as C IV, N V, C III], He II or O III], typically
blue-shifted by ≈100–200 km s−1 relative to Ly α. Their Ly α profiles reveal a
wide variety of shapes, including significant blue-shifted components and widths
from 200 to 4000 km s−1. Overall, 60 ± 11 per cent appear to be active galactic
nucleus (AGN) dominated, and at LLyα > 1043.3 erg s−1 and/or MUV < −21.5 virtually
all LAEs are AGNs with high ionization parameters (log U = 0.6 ± 0.5) and with
metallicities of ≈0.5 − 1 Z⊙. Those lacking signatures of AGNs (40 ± 11 per cent)
have lower ionization parameters (logU=−3.0+1.6−0.9 and log ξion = 25.4 ± 0.2)
and are apparently metal-poor sources likely powered by young, dust-poor ‘maximal’
starbursts. Our results show that luminous LAEs at z ∼ 2–3 are a diverse population
and that 2×L∗Lyα and 2×M∗UV mark a sharp transition in the nature of LAEs, from
star formation dominated to AGN dominated.
acknowledgement: 'We thank the anonymous reviewer for their timely and constructive
comments that greatly helped us to improve the manuscript. DS acknowledges financial
support from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific research (NWO) through
a Veni fellowship and from Lancaster University through an Early Career Internal
Grant A100679. JM acknowledges the support of a Huygens PhD fellowship from Leiden
University. BD acknowledges financial support from NASA through the Astrophysics
Data Analysis Program (ADAP), grant number NNX12AE20G, and the National Science
Foundation, grant number 1716907. IRS acknowledges support from the ERC Advanced
Grant DUSTYGAL (321334), STFC (ST/P000541/1), and a Royal Society/Wolfson Merit
Award. PNB is grateful for support from STFC via grant ST/M001229/1. We thank Anne
Verhamme, Kimihiko Nakajima, Ryan Trainor, Sangeeta Malhotra, Max Gronke, James
Rhoads, Fang Xia An, Matthew Hayes, Takashi Kojima, Mark Dijkstra, and Anne Jaskot
for many helpful and engaging discussions, particularly during the SnowCLAW Ly α
workshop. We thank Bruno Ribeiro, Stephane Charlot, and Joseph Caruana for comments
on the manuscript. The authors would also like to thank Ingrid Tengs, Meg Singleton,
Ali Khostovan, and Sara Perez for participating in part of the observations. We
also thank Joao Calhau, Leah Morabito, Sergio Santos, and Aayush Saxena for their
assistance with the narrow-band observations which allowed to select some of the
sour ces. Based on observations obtained with the William Herschel Telescope, program:
W16AN004; the Very Large Telescope, programs: 098.A-0819 & 099.A-0254; and the Keck
II telescope, program: C267D. Based on data products from observations made with
ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under ESO programme IDs 294.A-5018,
294.A-5039, 092.A-0786, 093.A-0561, 097.A-0943, 098.A-0819, 099.A-0254 and 179.A-2005.
The authors acknowledge the award of service time (SW2014b20) on the WHT. WHT and
its service programme are operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton
Group in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de
Astrofisica de Canarias. The authors would also like to thank all the extremely
helpful observatory staff that have greatly contributed towards our observations,
particularly Fiona Riddick, Lilian Dominguez, Florencia Jimenez, and Ian Skillen.
We have benefited greatly from the publicly available programming language PYTHON,
including the NUMPY & SCIPY (Van Der Walt, Colbert & Varoquaux 2011; Jones et al.
2001), MATPLOTLIB (Hunter 2007), ASTROPY (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013), and
the TOPCAT analysis program (Taylor 2013). This research has made use of the VizieR
catalogue access tool, CDS, Strasbourg, France.'
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: David
full_name: Sobral, David
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: Behnam
full_name: Darvish, Behnam
last_name: Darvish
- first_name: Ian
full_name: Smail, Ian
last_name: Smail
- first_name: Philip N
full_name: Best, Philip N
last_name: Best
- first_name: Lara
full_name: Alegre, Lara
last_name: Alegre
- first_name: Huub
full_name: Röttgering, Huub
last_name: Röttgering
- first_name: Bahram
full_name: Mobasher, Bahram
last_name: Mobasher
- first_name: Ana
full_name: Paulino-Afonso, Ana
last_name: Paulino-Afonso
- first_name: Andra
full_name: Stroe, Andra
last_name: Stroe
- first_name: Iván
full_name: Oteo, Iván
last_name: Oteo
citation:
ama: 'Sobral D, Matthee JJ, Darvish B, et al. The nature of luminous Ly α emitters
at z ∼ 2–3: Maximal dust-poor starbursts and highly ionizing AGN. Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2018;477(2):2817-2840. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty782'
apa: 'Sobral, D., Matthee, J. J., Darvish, B., Smail, I., Best, P. N., Alegre, L.,
… Oteo, I. (2018). The nature of luminous Ly α emitters at z ∼ 2–3: Maximal dust-poor
starbursts and highly ionizing AGN. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty782'
chicago: 'Sobral, David, Jorryt J Matthee, Behnam Darvish, Ian Smail, Philip N Best,
Lara Alegre, Huub Röttgering, et al. “The Nature of Luminous Ly α Emitters at
z ∼ 2–3: Maximal Dust-Poor Starbursts and Highly Ionizing AGN.” Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty782.'
ieee: 'D. Sobral et al., “The nature of luminous Ly α emitters at z ∼ 2–3:
Maximal dust-poor starbursts and highly ionizing AGN,” Monthly Notices of the
Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 477, no. 2. Oxford University Press, pp.
2817–2840, 2018.'
ista: 'Sobral D, Matthee JJ, Darvish B, Smail I, Best PN, Alegre L, Röttgering H,
Mobasher B, Paulino-Afonso A, Stroe A, Oteo I. 2018. The nature of luminous Ly
α emitters at z ∼ 2–3: Maximal dust-poor starbursts and highly ionizing AGN. Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 477(2), 2817–2840.'
mla: 'Sobral, David, et al. “The Nature of Luminous Ly α Emitters at z ∼ 2–3: Maximal
Dust-Poor Starbursts and Highly Ionizing AGN.” Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, vol. 477, no. 2, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp.
2817–40, doi:10.1093/mnras/sty782.'
short: D. Sobral, J.J. Matthee, B. Darvish, I. Smail, P.N. Best, L. Alegre, H. Röttgering,
B. Mobasher, A. Paulino-Afonso, A. Stroe, I. Oteo, Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society 477 (2018) 2817–2840.
date_created: 2022-07-12T07:18:02Z
date_published: 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-08-19T07:01:08Z
day: '01'
doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty782
extern: '1'
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1802.10102'
intvolume: ' 477'
issue: '2'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 'galaxies: active'
- 'galaxies: evolution'
- 'galaxies: high-redshift'
- 'galaxies: ISM'
- 'galaxies: starburst'
- 'cosmology: observations'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.10102
month: '06'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 2817-2840
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: 'The nature of luminous Ly α emitters at z ∼ 2–3: Maximal dust-poor starbursts
and highly ionizing AGN'
type: journal_article
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 477
year: '2018'
...
---
_id: '11518'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: "We present spectroscopic follow-up observations of CR7 with ALMA, targeted
at constraining the infrared (IR) continuum and [C II]158 mm line-emission at
high spatial resolution matched to the HST/WFC3 imaging. CR7 is a luminous Lyα
emitting galaxy at z = 6.6 that consists of three separated UV-continuum components.
Our observations reveal several well-separated components of [C II] emission.
The two most luminous components in [C II] coincide with the brightest UV components
(A and B), blueshifted by »150 km s−1 with respect to the\r\npeak of Lyα emission.
Other [C II] components are observed close to UV clumps B and C and are blueshifted
by »300 and ≈80 km s−1 with respect to the systemic redshift. We do not detect
FIR continuum emission due to dust with a 3σ limiting luminosity LIR T L d 35
K 3.1 10 = <´ 10 ( ) . This allows us to mitigate uncertainties in the dust-corrected
SFR and derive SFRs for the three UV clumps A, B, and C of 28, 5, and 7 M yr−1.
All clumps have [C II] luminosities consistent within the scatter observed in
the local relation between SFR and L[ ] C II , implying that strong Lyα emission
does not necessarily anti-correlate with [C II] luminosity. Combining\r\nour measurements
with the literature, we show that galaxies with blue UV slopes have weaker [C
II] emission at fixed SFR, potentially due to their lower metallicities and/or
higher photoionization. Comparison with hydrodynamical simulations suggests that
CR7ʼs clumps have metallicities of 0.1 Z Z 0.2 < < . The observed ISM structure
of CR7 indicates that we are likely witnessing the build up of a central galaxy
in the early universe through complex accretion of satellites."
acknowledgement: 'We thank the referee for their constructive comments, which have
helped improve the quality and clarity of this work. We thank Raffaella Schneider
for comments on an earlier version of this paper. We thank Leindert Boogaard, Steven
Bos, Rychard Bouwens, and Renske Smit for discussions. J.M. acknowledges the support
of a Huygens PhD fellowship from Leiden University. D.S. acknowledges financial
support from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific research (NWO) through
a Veni fellowship and from Lancaster University through an Early Career Internal
Grant A100679. A.F. acknowledges support from the ERC Advanced Grant INTERSTELLAR
H2020/740120. B.D. acknowledges financial support from NASA through the Astrophysics
Data Analysis Program (ADAP), grant number NNX12AE20G. Based on observations made
with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under programme ID 294.A-5018.
This paper makes use of the following ALMA data: ADS/JAO.ALMA#2015.1.00122.S. ALMA
is a partnership of ESO (representing its member states), NSF (USA), and NINS (Japan),
together with NRC (Canada) and NSC and ASIAA (Taiwan), and KASI (Republic of Korea),
in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. The Joint ALMA Observatory is operated
by ESO, AUI/NRAO, and NAOJ.'
article_number: '145'
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: D.
full_name: Sobral, D.
last_name: Sobral
- first_name: F.
full_name: Boone, F.
last_name: Boone
- first_name: H.
full_name: Röttgering, H.
last_name: Röttgering
- first_name: D.
full_name: Schaerer, D.
last_name: Schaerer
- first_name: M.
full_name: Girard, M.
last_name: Girard
- first_name: A.
full_name: Pallottini, A.
last_name: Pallottini
- first_name: L.
full_name: Vallini, L.
last_name: Vallini
- first_name: A.
full_name: Ferrara, A.
last_name: Ferrara
- first_name: B.
full_name: Darvish, B.
last_name: Darvish
- first_name: B.
full_name: Mobasher, B.
last_name: Mobasher
citation:
ama: Matthee JJ, Sobral D, Boone F, et al. ALMA reveals metals yet no dust within
multiple components in CR7. The Astrophysical Journal. 2017;851(2). doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa9931
apa: Matthee, J. J., Sobral, D., Boone, F., Röttgering, H., Schaerer, D., Girard,
M., … Mobasher, B. (2017). ALMA reveals metals yet no dust within multiple components
in CR7. The Astrophysical Journal. IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9931
chicago: Matthee, Jorryt J, D. Sobral, F. Boone, H. Röttgering, D. Schaerer, M.
Girard, A. Pallottini, et al. “ALMA Reveals Metals yet No Dust within Multiple
Components in CR7.” The Astrophysical Journal. IOP Publishing, 2017. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9931.
ieee: J. J. Matthee et al., “ALMA reveals metals yet no dust within multiple
components in CR7,” The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 851, no. 2. IOP Publishing,
2017.
ista: Matthee JJ, Sobral D, Boone F, Röttgering H, Schaerer D, Girard M, Pallottini
A, Vallini L, Ferrara A, Darvish B, Mobasher B. 2017. ALMA reveals metals yet
no dust within multiple components in CR7. The Astrophysical Journal. 851(2),
145.
mla: Matthee, Jorryt J., et al. “ALMA Reveals Metals yet No Dust within Multiple
Components in CR7.” The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 851, no. 2, 145, IOP
Publishing, 2017, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa9931.
short: J.J. Matthee, D. Sobral, F. Boone, H. Röttgering, D. Schaerer, M. Girard,
A. Pallottini, L. Vallini, A. Ferrara, B. Darvish, B. Mobasher, The Astrophysical
Journal 851 (2017).
date_created: 2022-07-07T08:48:04Z
date_published: 2017-12-21T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-08-18T10:23:35Z
day: '21'
doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa9931
extern: '1'
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1709.06569'
intvolume: ' 851'
issue: '2'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- dark ages
- reionization
- 'first stars – galaxies: formation – galaxies: high-redshift – galaxies: ISM – galaxies:
kinematics and dynamics'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06569
month: '12'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
publication: The Astrophysical Journal
publication_identifier:
eissn:
- 1538-4357
issn:
- 0004-637X
publication_status: published
publisher: IOP Publishing
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: ALMA reveals metals yet no dust within multiple components in CR7
type: journal_article
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 851
year: '2017'
...
---
_id: '11575'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: We investigate correlations between different physical properties of star-forming
galaxies in the ‘Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments’ (EAGLE)
cosmological hydrodynamical simulation suite over the redshift range 0 ≤ z ≤ 4.5.
A principal component analysis reveals that neutral gas fraction (fgas,neutral),
stellar mass (Mstellar) and star formation rate (SFR) account for most of the
variance seen in the population, with galaxies tracing a two-dimensional, nearly
flat, surface in the three-dimensional space of fgas, neutral–Mstellar–SFR with
little scatter. The location of this plane varies little with redshift, whereas
galaxies themselves move along the plane as their fgas, neutral and SFR drop with
redshift. The positions of galaxies along the plane are highly correlated with
gas metallicity. The metallicity can therefore be robustly predicted from fgas,
neutral, or from the Mstellar and SFR. We argue that the appearance of this ‘Fundamental
Plane of star formation’ is a consequence of self-regulation, with the plane's
curvature set by the dependence of the SFR on gas density and metallicity. We
analyse a large compilation of observations spanning the redshift range 0 ≲ z
≲ 3, and find that such a plane is also present in the data. The properties of
the observed Fundamental Plane of star formation are in good agreement with EAGLE's
predictions.
acknowledgement: We thank Luca Cortese, Matt Bothwell, Paola Santini and Tim Davis
for providing observational data sets, and Aaron Robotham, Luca Cortese and Barbara
Catinella for useful discussions. CdPL is funded by a Discovery Early Career Researcher
Award (DE150100618). CdPL also thanks the MERAC Foundation for a Postdoctoral Research
Award. This work used the DiRAC Data Centric system at Durham University, operated
by the Institute for Computational Cosmology on behalf of the STFC DiRAC HPC Facility
(www.dirac.ac.uk). This equipment was funded by BIS National E-infrastructure capital
grant ST/K00042X/1, STFC capital grant ST/H008519/1, and STFC DiRAC Operations grant
ST/K003267/1 and Durham University. DiRAC is part of the National E-Infrastructure.
Support was also received via the Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme initiated
by the Belgian Science Policy Office ([AP P7/08 CHARM]), the National Science Foundation
under grant no. NSF PHY11-25915, and the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council
(grant numbers ST/F001166/1 and ST/I000976/1) via rolling and consolidating grants
awarded to the ICC. The research was supported in part by the European Research
Council under the European Union‘s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC
grant agreement 278594-GasAroundGalaxies.
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Claudia del P.
full_name: Lagos, Claudia del P.
last_name: Lagos
- first_name: Tom
full_name: Theuns, Tom
last_name: Theuns
- first_name: Joop
full_name: Schaye, Joop
last_name: Schaye
- first_name: Michelle
full_name: Furlong, Michelle
last_name: Furlong
- first_name: Richard G.
full_name: Bower, Richard G.
last_name: Bower
- first_name: Matthieu
full_name: Schaller, Matthieu
last_name: Schaller
- first_name: Robert A.
full_name: Crain, Robert A.
last_name: Crain
- first_name: James W.
full_name: Trayford, James W.
last_name: Trayford
- 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: Lagos C del P, Theuns T, Schaye J, et al. The Fundamental Plane of star formation
in galaxies revealed by the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations. Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2016;459(3):2632-2650. doi:10.1093/mnras/stw717
apa: Lagos, C. del P., Theuns, T., Schaye, J., Furlong, M., Bower, R. G., Schaller,
M., … Matthee, J. J. (2016). The Fundamental Plane of star formation in galaxies
revealed by the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw717
chicago: Lagos, Claudia del P., Tom Theuns, Joop Schaye, Michelle Furlong, Richard
G. Bower, Matthieu Schaller, Robert A. Crain, James W. Trayford, and Jorryt J
Matthee. “The Fundamental Plane of Star Formation in Galaxies Revealed by the
EAGLE Hydrodynamical Simulations.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society. Oxford University Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw717.
ieee: C. del P. Lagos et al., “The Fundamental Plane of star formation in
galaxies revealed by the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations,” Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 459, no. 3. Oxford University Press,
pp. 2632–2650, 2016.
ista: Lagos C del P, Theuns T, Schaye J, Furlong M, Bower RG, Schaller M, Crain
RA, Trayford JW, Matthee JJ. 2016. The Fundamental Plane of star formation in
galaxies revealed by the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations. Monthly Notices of
the Royal Astronomical Society. 459(3), 2632–2650.
mla: Lagos, Claudia del P., et al. “The Fundamental Plane of Star Formation in Galaxies
Revealed by the EAGLE Hydrodynamical Simulations.” Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, vol. 459, no. 3, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp.
2632–50, doi:10.1093/mnras/stw717.
short: C. del P. Lagos, T. Theuns, J. Schaye, M. Furlong, R.G. Bower, M. Schaller,
R.A. Crain, J.W. Trayford, J.J. Matthee, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society 459 (2016) 2632–2650.
date_created: 2022-07-13T10:21:24Z
date_published: 2016-07-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-08-19T08:12:07Z
day: '01'
doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw717
extern: '1'
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1510.08067'
intvolume: ' 459'
issue: '3'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- 'Astronomy and Astrophysics stars: formation'
- 'ISM: evolution'
- 'galaxies: evolution'
- 'galaxies: formation'
- 'galaxies: ISM'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
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publication: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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title: The Fundamental Plane of star formation in galaxies revealed by the EAGLE hydrodynamical
simulations
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abstract:
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text: We present the first results from our CAlibrating LYMan α with Hα (CALYMHA)
pilot survey at the Isaac Newton Telescope. We measure Lyα emission for 488 Hα
selected galaxies at z = 2.23 from High-z Emission Line Survey in the COSMOS and
UDS fields with a specially designed narrow-band filter (λc = 3918 Å, Δλ = 52
Å). We find 17 dual Hα-Lyα emitters [fLyα > 5 × 10−17 erg s−1 cm−2, of which five
are X-ray active galactic nuclei (AGN)]. For star-forming galaxies, we find a
range of Lyα escape fractions (fesc, measured with 3 arcsec apertures) from 2
to 30 per cent. These galaxies have masses from 3 × 108 M⊙ to 1011 M⊙ and dust
attenuations E(B − V) = 0–0.5. Using stacking, we measure a median escape fraction
of 1.6 ± 0.5 per cent (4.0 ± 1.0 per cent without correcting Hα for dust), but
show that this depends on galaxy properties. The stacked fesc tends to decrease
with increasing star formation rate and dust attenuation. However, at the highest
masses and dust attenuations, we detect individual galaxies with fesc much higher
than the typical values from stacking, indicating significant scatter in the values
of fesc. Relations between fesc and UV slope are bimodal, with high fesc for either
the bluest or reddest galaxies. We speculate that this bimodality and large scatter
in the values of fesc is due to additional physical mechanisms such as outflows
facilitating fesc for dusty/massive systems. Lyα is significantly more extended
than Hα and the UV. fesc continues to increase up to at least 20 kpc (3σ, 40 kpc
[2σ]) for typical star-forming galaxies and thus the aperture is the most important
predictor of fesc.
acknowledgement: "We thank the anonymous referee for constructive comments and suggestions
which have improved the quality of this work. JM acknowledges the support of a Huygens
PhD fellowship from Leiden University. DS and JM acknowledge financial support from
the Netherlands Organization for Scientific research (NWO) through a Veni fellowship,
and DS from FCT through a FCT Investigator Starting Grant and Start-up Grant (IF/01154/2012/CP0189/CT0010)
and from FCT grant PEst-OE/FIS/UI2751/2014. IO acknowledges support from the European
Research Council (ERC) in the form of Advanced Investigator Programme, COSMICISM,
321302. HR acknowledges support from the ERC Advanced Investigator programme NewClusters
321271. IRS acknowledges support from STFC (ST/L00075X/1), the ERC Advanced Investigator
programme DUSTYGAL 321334 and a Royal Society/Wolfson Merit Award. APA acknowledges
support from the Fundac¸ao para a Ciencia e para a Tecnologia (FCT) through the
Fellowship SFRH/BD/52706/2014.\r\nBased on observations made with the Isaac Newton
Telescope (proposals 2013AN002, 2013BN008, 2014AC88, 2014AN002, 2014BN006, 2014BC118)
operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group in the Spanish Observatorio
del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrof´ısica de Canarias. We acknowledge
the tremendous work that has been done by both COSMOS and UKIDSS UDS/SXDF teams
in assembling such large, state-ofthe-art multi-wavelength data sets over such wide
areas, as those have been crucial for the results presented in this paper. The sample
of HAEs is publicly available from Sobral et al. (2013).\r\nWe have benefited greatly
from the publically available programming language PYTHON, including the NUMPY,
MATPLOTLIB, PYFITS, SCIPY (Jones et al. 2001; Hunter 2007; Van Der Walt, Colbert
& Varoquaux 2011) and ASTROPY (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013) packages, the
imaging tools SEXTRACTOR, SWARP and SCAMP (Bertin & Arnouts 1996; Bertin 2006, 2010)
and the TOPCAT analysis program (Taylor 2005)."
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author:
- first_name: Jorryt J
full_name: Matthee, Jorryt J
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last_name: Matthee
orcid: 0000-0003-2871-127X
- first_name: David
full_name: Sobral, David
last_name: Sobral
- first_name: Iván
full_name: Oteo, Iván
last_name: Oteo
- first_name: Philip
full_name: Best, Philip
last_name: Best
- first_name: Ian
full_name: Smail, Ian
last_name: Smail
- first_name: Huub
full_name: Röttgering, Huub
last_name: Röttgering
- first_name: Ana
full_name: Paulino-Afonso, Ana
last_name: Paulino-Afonso
citation:
ama: 'Matthee JJ, Sobral D, Oteo I, et al. The CALYMHA survey: Lyα escape fraction
and its dependence on galaxy properties at z = 2.23. Monthly Notices of the
Royal Astronomical Society. 2016;458(1):449-467. doi:10.1093/mnras/stw322'
apa: 'Matthee, J. J., Sobral, D., Oteo, I., Best, P., Smail, I., Röttgering, H.,
& Paulino-Afonso, A. (2016). The CALYMHA survey: Lyα escape fraction and its
dependence on galaxy properties at z = 2.23. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw322'
chicago: 'Matthee, Jorryt J, David Sobral, Iván Oteo, Philip Best, Ian Smail, Huub
Röttgering, and Ana Paulino-Afonso. “The CALYMHA Survey: Lyα Escape Fraction and
Its Dependence on Galaxy Properties at z = 2.23.” Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw322.'
ieee: 'J. J. Matthee et al., “The CALYMHA survey: Lyα escape fraction and
its dependence on galaxy properties at z = 2.23,” Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, vol. 458, no. 1. Oxford University Press, pp. 449–467,
2016.'
ista: 'Matthee JJ, Sobral D, Oteo I, Best P, Smail I, Röttgering H, Paulino-Afonso
A. 2016. The CALYMHA survey: Lyα escape fraction and its dependence on galaxy
properties at z = 2.23. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 458(1),
449–467.'
mla: 'Matthee, Jorryt J., et al. “The CALYMHA Survey: Lyα Escape Fraction and Its
Dependence on Galaxy Properties at z = 2.23.” Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, vol. 458, no. 1, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp.
449–67, doi:10.1093/mnras/stw322.'
short: J.J. Matthee, D. Sobral, I. Oteo, P. Best, I. Smail, H. Röttgering, A. Paulino-Afonso,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 458 (2016) 449–467.
date_created: 2022-07-14T08:51:37Z
date_published: 2016-05-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-08-19T08:17:19Z
day: '01'
doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw322
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external_id:
arxiv:
- '1602.02756'
intvolume: ' 458'
issue: '1'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 'galaxies: evolution'
- 'galaxies: high-redshift'
- 'galaxies: ISM'
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- iso: eng
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url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02756
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title: 'The CALYMHA survey: Lyα escape fraction and its dependence on galaxy properties
at z = 2.23'
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