---
_id: '11530'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: A prediction of the classic active galactic nucleus (AGN) unification model
is the presence of ionization cones with different orientations depending on the
AGN type. Confirmations of this model exist for present times, but it is less
clear in the early Universe. Here, we use the morphology of giant Ly α nebulae
around AGNs at redshift z ∼ 3 to probe AGN emission and therefore the validity
of the AGN unification model at this redshift. We compare the spatial morphology
of 19 nebulae previously found around type I AGNs with a new sample of four Ly α
nebulae detected around type II AGNs. Using two independent techniques, we find
that nebulae around type II AGNs are more asymmetric than around type I, at least
at radial distances r > 30 physical kpc (pkpc) from the ionizing source. We conclude
that the type I and type II AGNs in our sample show evidence of different surrounding
ionizing geometries. This suggests that the classical AGN unification model is
also valid for high-redshift sources. Finally, we discuss how the lack of asymmetry
in the inner parts (r ≲ 30 pkpc) and the associated high values of the He II to
Ly α ratios in these regions could indicate additional sources of (hard) ionizing
radiation originating within or in proximity of the AGN host galaxies. This work
demonstrates that the morphologies of giant Ly α nebulae can be used to understand
and study the geometry of high-redshift AGNs on circumnuclear scales and it lays
the foundation for future studies using much larger statistical samples.
acknowledgement: SC and GP gratefully acknowledge support from Swiss National Science
Foundation grant PP00P2 163824. MK acknowledges support by DLR500R1904.
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: J S
full_name: den Brok, J S
last_name: den Brok
- first_name: S
full_name: Cantalupo, S
last_name: Cantalupo
- first_name: R
full_name: Mackenzie, R
last_name: Mackenzie
- first_name: R A
full_name: Marino, R A
last_name: Marino
- first_name: G
full_name: Pezzulli, G
last_name: Pezzulli
- 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: S D
full_name: Johnson, S D
last_name: Johnson
- first_name: M
full_name: Krumpe, M
last_name: Krumpe
- first_name: T
full_name: Urrutia, T
last_name: Urrutia
- first_name: W
full_name: Kollatschny, W
last_name: Kollatschny
citation:
ama: den Brok JS, Cantalupo S, Mackenzie R, et al. Probing the AGN unification model
at redshift z ∼ 3 with MUSE observations of giant Lyα nebulae. Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2020;495(2):1874-1887. doi:10.1093/mnras/staa1269
apa: den Brok, J. S., Cantalupo, S., Mackenzie, R., Marino, R. A., Pezzulli, G.,
Matthee, J. J., … Kollatschny, W. (2020). Probing the AGN unification model at
redshift z ∼ 3 with MUSE observations of giant Lyα nebulae. Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1269
chicago: den Brok, J S, S Cantalupo, R Mackenzie, R A Marino, G Pezzulli, Jorryt
J Matthee, S D Johnson, M Krumpe, T Urrutia, and W Kollatschny. “Probing the AGN
Unification Model at Redshift z ∼ 3 with MUSE Observations of Giant Lyα Nebulae.”
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press,
2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1269.
ieee: J. S. den Brok et al., “Probing the AGN unification model at redshift
z ∼ 3 with MUSE observations of giant Lyα nebulae,” Monthly Notices of the
Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 495, no. 2. Oxford University Press, pp.
1874–1887, 2020.
ista: den Brok JS, Cantalupo S, Mackenzie R, Marino RA, Pezzulli G, Matthee JJ,
Johnson SD, Krumpe M, Urrutia T, Kollatschny W. 2020. Probing the AGN unification
model at redshift z ∼ 3 with MUSE observations of giant Lyα nebulae. Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society. 495(2), 1874–1887.
mla: den Brok, J. S., et al. “Probing the AGN Unification Model at Redshift z ∼
3 with MUSE Observations of Giant Lyα Nebulae.” Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, vol. 495, no. 2, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp.
1874–87, doi:10.1093/mnras/staa1269.
short: J.S. den Brok, S. Cantalupo, R. Mackenzie, R.A. Marino, G. Pezzulli, J.J.
Matthee, S.D. Johnson, M. Krumpe, T. Urrutia, W. Kollatschny, Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society 495 (2020) 1874–1887.
date_created: 2022-07-07T10:40:17Z
date_published: 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-08-18T11:17:47Z
day: '01'
doi: 10.1093/mnras/staa1269
extern: '1'
external_id:
arxiv:
- '2005.01732'
intvolume: ' 495'
issue: '2'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 'galaxies: active'
- 'galaxies: high-redshift'
- intergalactic medium
- 'quasars: emission lines'
- 'quasars: general'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01732
month: '06'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 1874-1887
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: Probing the AGN unification model at redshift z ∼ 3 with MUSE observations
of giant Lyα nebulae
type: journal_article
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 495
year: '2020'
...
---
_id: '11539'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'Despite recent progress in understanding Ly α emitters (LAEs), relatively
little is known regarding their typical black hole activity across cosmic time.
Here, we study the X-ray and radio properties of ∼4000 LAEs at 2.2 < z < 6 from
the SC4K survey in the COSMOS field. We detect 254 (6.8per cent±0.4per cent)
LAEs individually in the X-rays (S/N > 3) with an average luminosity of 1044.31±0.01ergs−1
and average black hole accretion rate (BHAR) of 0.72±0.01 M⊙ yr−1, consistent
with moderate to high accreting active galactic neuclei (AGNs). We detect 120
sources in deep radio data (radio AGN fraction of 3.2per cent±0.3per cent). The
global AGN fraction (8.6per cent±0.4per cent) rises with Ly α luminosity and
declines with increasing redshift. For X-ray-detected LAEs, Ly α luminosities
correlate with the BHARs, suggesting that Ly α luminosity becomes a BHAR indicator.
Most LAEs (93.1per cent±0.6per cent) at 2 < z < 6 have no detectable X-ray emission
(BHARs < 0.017 M⊙ yr−1). The median star formation rate (SFR) of star-forming
LAEs from Ly α and radio luminosities is 7.6+6.6−2.8 M⊙ yr−1. The black hole to
galaxy growth ratio (BHAR/SFR) for LAEs is <0.0022, consistent with typical star-forming
galaxies and the local BHAR/SFR relation. We conclude that LAEs at 2 < z < 6 include
two different populations: an AGN population, where Ly α luminosity traces BHAR,
and another with low SFRs which remain undetected in even the deepest X-ray stacks
but is detected in the radio stacks.'
acknowledgement: JM acknowledges the support of a Huygens PhD fellowship from Leiden
University. We thank Camila Correa for help analysing snipshot merger trees. We
thank the anonymous referee for constructive comments. We also thank Jarle Brinchmann,
Rob Crain, Antonios Katsianis, Paola Popesso, and David Sobral for discussions and
suggestions. We also thank the participants of the Lorentz Center workshop ‘A Decade
of the Star-Forming Main Sequence’ held on 2017 September 4–8, for discussions and
ideas. We have benefited from the public available programming language PYTHON,
including the NUMPY, MATPLOTLIB, and SCIPY (Hunter 2007) packages and the TOPCAT
analysis tool (Taylor 2013).
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: João
full_name: Calhau, João
last_name: Calhau
- first_name: David
full_name: Sobral, David
last_name: Sobral
- first_name: Sérgio
full_name: Santos, Sérgio
last_name: Santos
- 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: Ana
full_name: Paulino-Afonso, Ana
last_name: Paulino-Afonso
- first_name: Andra
full_name: Stroe, Andra
last_name: Stroe
- first_name: Brooke
full_name: Simmons, Brooke
last_name: Simmons
- first_name: Cassandra
full_name: Barlow-Hall, Cassandra
last_name: Barlow-Hall
- first_name: Benjamin
full_name: Adams, Benjamin
last_name: Adams
citation:
ama: 'Calhau J, Sobral D, Santos S, et al. The X-ray and radio activity of typical
and luminous Ly α emitters from z ∼ 2 to z ∼ 6: Evidence for a diverse, evolving
population. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2020;493(3):3341-3362.
doi:10.1093/mnras/staa476'
apa: 'Calhau, J., Sobral, D., Santos, S., Matthee, J. J., Paulino-Afonso, A., Stroe,
A., … Adams, B. (2020). The X-ray and radio activity of typical and luminous Ly α
emitters from z ∼ 2 to z ∼ 6: Evidence for a diverse, evolving population. Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa476'
chicago: 'Calhau, João, David Sobral, Sérgio Santos, Jorryt J Matthee, Ana Paulino-Afonso,
Andra Stroe, Brooke Simmons, Cassandra Barlow-Hall, and Benjamin Adams. “The X-Ray
and Radio Activity of Typical and Luminous Ly α Emitters from z ∼ 2 to z ∼ 6:
Evidence for a Diverse, Evolving Population.” Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa476.'
ieee: 'J. Calhau et al., “The X-ray and radio activity of typical and luminous
Ly α emitters from z ∼ 2 to z ∼ 6: Evidence for a diverse, evolving population,”
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 493, no. 3. Oxford
University Press, pp. 3341–3362, 2020.'
ista: 'Calhau J, Sobral D, Santos S, Matthee JJ, Paulino-Afonso A, Stroe A, Simmons
B, Barlow-Hall C, Adams B. 2020. The X-ray and radio activity of typical and luminous
Ly α emitters from z ∼ 2 to z ∼ 6: Evidence for a diverse, evolving population.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 493(3), 3341–3362.'
mla: 'Calhau, João, et al. “The X-Ray and Radio Activity of Typical and Luminous
Ly α Emitters from z ∼ 2 to z ∼ 6: Evidence for a Diverse, Evolving Population.”
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 493, no. 3, Oxford
University Press, 2020, pp. 3341–62, doi:10.1093/mnras/staa476.'
short: J. Calhau, D. Sobral, S. Santos, J.J. Matthee, A. Paulino-Afonso, A. Stroe,
B. Simmons, C. Barlow-Hall, B. Adams, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society 493 (2020) 3341–3362.
date_created: 2022-07-08T07:34:10Z
date_published: 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-08-18T11:25:31Z
day: '01'
doi: 10.1093/mnras/staa476
extern: '1'
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1909.11672'
intvolume: ' 493'
issue: '3'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 'galaxies: active'
- 'galaxies: evolution'
- 'galaxies: high-redshift'
- 'quasars: supermassive black holes'
- 'galaxies: star formation'
- 'cosmology: observations'
- 'X-rays: galaxies'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11672
month: '04'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 3341-3362
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-ray and radio activity of typical and luminous Ly α emitters from z
∼ 2 to z ∼ 6: Evidence for a diverse, evolving population'
type: journal_article
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 493
year: '2020'
...
---
_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: '11566'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: While traditionally associated with active galactic nuclei (AGN), the properties
of the C II] (λ = 2326 Å), C III] (λ, λ = 1907, 1909 Å) and C IV (λ, λ = 1549,
1551 Å) emission lines are still uncertain as large, unbiased samples of sources
are scarce. We present the first blind, statistical study of C II], C III] and
C IV emitters at z ∼ 0.68, 1.05, 1.53, respectively, uniformly selected down to
a flux limit of ∼4 × 10−17 erg s−1 cm−1 through a narrow-band survey covering
an area of ∼1.4 deg2 over COSMOS and UDS. We detect 16 C II], 35 C III] and 17
C IV emitters, whose nature we investigate using optical colours as well as Hubble
Space Telescope (HST), X-ray, radio and far-infrared data. We find that z ∼ 0.7
C II] emitters are consistent with a mixture of blue (UV slope β = −2.0 ± 0.4)
star-forming (SF) galaxies with discy HST structure and AGN with Seyfert-like
morphologies. Bright C II] emitters have individual X-ray detections as well as
high average black hole accretion rates (BHARs) of ∼0.1 M⊙ yr−1. C III] emitters
at z ∼ 1.05 trace a general population of SF galaxies, with β = −0.8 ± 1.1, a
variety of optical morphologies, including isolated and interacting galaxies and
low BHAR (<0.02 M⊙ yr−1). Our C IV emitters at z ∼ 1.5 are consistent with young,
blue quasars (β ∼ −1.9) with point-like optical morphologies, bright X-ray counterparts
and large BHAR (0.8 M⊙ yr−1). We also find some surprising C II], C III] and
C IV emitters with rest-frame equivalent widths (EWs) that could be as large as
50–100 Å. AGN or spatial offsets between the UV continuum stellar disc and the
line-emitting regions may explain the large EW. These bright C II], C III] and
C IV emitters are ideal candidates for spectroscopic follow-up to fully unveil
their nature.
acknowledgement: 'We would like to thank the anonymous referee for her/his valuable
input that helped improve the clarity and interpretation of our results. DS acknowledges
financial support from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific research (NWO),
through a Veni fellowship. IO acknowledges support from the European Research Council
in the form of the Advanced Investigator Programme, 321302, COSMICISM. CALYMHA data
are based on observations made with the Isaac Newton Telescope (proposals 13AN002,
I14AN002, 088-INT7/14A, I14BN006, 118-INT13/14B, I15AN008) 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 Astrofísica de Canarias. Also based on data products
from observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under
ESO programme IDs 098.A-0819 and 179.A-2005. We are grateful to E. L. Wright and
J. Schombert for their cosmology calculator. We would like to thank the authors
of NUMPY (van der Walt et al. 2011), SCIPY (Jones et al. 2001), MATPLOTLIB (Hunter
2007) and ASTROPY (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013) for making these packages
publicly available. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
(NED), which is '
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Andra
full_name: Stroe, Andra
last_name: Stroe
- 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: João
full_name: Calhau, João
last_name: Calhau
- first_name: Ivan
full_name: Oteo, Ivan
last_name: Oteo
citation:
ama: Stroe A, Sobral D, Matthee JJ, Calhau J, Oteo I. A 1.4 deg2 blind survey for
C II], C III] and C IV at z ∼ 0.7–1.5 – I. Nature, morphologies and equivalent
widths . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2017;471(3):2558-2574.
doi:10.1093/mnras/stx1712
apa: Stroe, A., Sobral, D., Matthee, J. J., Calhau, J., & Oteo, I. (2017). A
1.4 deg2 blind survey for C II], C III] and C IV at z ∼ 0.7–1.5 – I. Nature, morphologies
and equivalent widths . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1712
chicago: Stroe, Andra, David Sobral, Jorryt J Matthee, João Calhau, and Ivan Oteo.
“A 1.4 Deg2 Blind Survey for C II], C III] and C IV at z ∼ 0.7–1.5 – I. Nature,
Morphologies and Equivalent Widths .” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society. Oxford University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1712.
ieee: A. Stroe, D. Sobral, J. J. Matthee, J. Calhau, and I. Oteo, “A 1.4 deg2 blind
survey for C II], C III] and C IV at z ∼ 0.7–1.5 – I. Nature, morphologies and
equivalent widths ,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,
vol. 471, no. 3. Oxford University Press, pp. 2558–2574, 2017.
ista: Stroe A, Sobral D, Matthee JJ, Calhau J, Oteo I. 2017. A 1.4 deg2 blind survey
for C II], C III] and C IV at z ∼ 0.7–1.5 – I. Nature, morphologies and equivalent
widths . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 471(3), 2558–2574.
mla: Stroe, Andra, et al. “A 1.4 Deg2 Blind Survey for C II], C III] and C IV at
z ∼ 0.7–1.5 – I. Nature, Morphologies and Equivalent Widths .” Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 471, no. 3, Oxford University Press,
2017, pp. 2558–74, doi:10.1093/mnras/stx1712.
short: A. Stroe, D. Sobral, J.J. Matthee, J. Calhau, I. Oteo, Monthly Notices of
the Royal Astronomical Society 471 (2017) 2558–2574.
date_created: 2022-07-12T12:33:16Z
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date_updated: 2022-08-19T07:59:57Z
day: '01'
doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx1712
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- '1703.10169'
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- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 'galaxies: active'
- 'galaxies: high-redshift'
- 'quasars: emission lines'
- 'galaxies: star formation'
- 'cosmology: observations'
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title: 'A 1.4 deg2 blind survey for C II], C III] and C IV at z ∼ 0.7–1.5 – I. Nature,
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text: Recently, the C III] and C IV emission lines have been observed in galaxies
in the early Universe (z > 5), providing new ways to measure their redshift and
study their stellar populations and active galactic nuclei (AGN). We explore the
first blind C II], C III] and C IV survey (z ∼ 0.68, 1.05, 1.53, respectively)
presented in Stroe et al. (2017). We derive luminosity functions (LF) and study
properties of C II], C III] and C IV line emitters through comparisons to the
LFs of H α and Ly α emitters, UV selected star-forming (SF) galaxies and quasars
at similar redshifts. The C II] LF at z ∼ 0.68 is equally well described by a
Schechter or a power-law LF, characteristic of a mixture of SF and AGN activity.
The C III] LF (z ∼ 1.05) is consistent to a scaled down version of the Schechter
H α and Ly α LF at their redshift, indicating a SF origin. In stark contrast,
the C IV LF at z ∼ 1.53 is well fit by a power-law, quasar-like LF. We find that
the brightest UV sources (MUV < −22) will universally have C III] and C IV emission.
However, on average, C III] and C IV are not as abundant as H α or Ly α emitters
at the same redshift, with cosmic average ratios of ∼0.02–0.06 to H α and ∼0.01–0.1
to intrinsic Ly α. We predict that the C III] and C IV lines can only be truly
competitive in confirming high-redshift candidates when the hosts are intrinsically
bright and the effective Ly α escape fraction is below 1 per cent. While C III]
and C IV were proposed as good tracers of young, relatively low-metallicity galaxies
typical of the early Universe, we find that, at least at z ∼ 1.5, C IV is exclusively
hosted by AGN/quasars, especially at large line equivalent widths.
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- first_name: Andra
full_name: Stroe, Andra
last_name: Stroe
- first_name: David
full_name: Sobral, David
last_name: Sobral
- first_name: Jorryt J
full_name: Matthee, Jorryt J
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last_name: Matthee
orcid: 0000-0003-2871-127X
- first_name: João
full_name: Calhau, João
last_name: Calhau
- first_name: Ivan
full_name: Oteo, Ivan
last_name: Oteo
citation:
ama: Stroe A, Sobral D, Matthee JJ, Calhau J, Oteo I. A 1.4 deg2 blind survey for
C II], C III] and C IV at z ∼ 0.7–1.5 – II. Luminosity functions and cosmic average
line ratios. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2017;471(3):2575-2586.
doi:10.1093/mnras/stx1713
apa: Stroe, A., Sobral, D., Matthee, J. J., Calhau, J., & Oteo, I. (2017). A
1.4 deg2 blind survey for C II], C III] and C IV at z ∼ 0.7–1.5 – II. Luminosity
functions and cosmic average line ratios. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1713
chicago: Stroe, Andra, David Sobral, Jorryt J Matthee, João Calhau, and Ivan Oteo.
“A 1.4 Deg2 Blind Survey for C II], C III] and C IV at z ∼ 0.7–1.5 – II. Luminosity
Functions and Cosmic Average Line Ratios.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society. Oxford University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1713.
ieee: A. Stroe, D. Sobral, J. J. Matthee, J. Calhau, and I. Oteo, “A 1.4 deg2 blind
survey for C II], C III] and C IV at z ∼ 0.7–1.5 – II. Luminosity functions and
cosmic average line ratios,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,
vol. 471, no. 3. Oxford University Press, pp. 2575–2586, 2017.
ista: Stroe A, Sobral D, Matthee JJ, Calhau J, Oteo I. 2017. A 1.4 deg2 blind survey
for C II], C III] and C IV at z ∼ 0.7–1.5 – II. Luminosity functions and cosmic
average line ratios. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 471(3),
2575–2586.
mla: Stroe, Andra, et al. “A 1.4 Deg2 Blind Survey for C II], C III] and C IV at
z ∼ 0.7–1.5 – II. Luminosity Functions and Cosmic Average Line Ratios.” Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 471, no. 3, Oxford University
Press, 2017, pp. 2575–86, doi:10.1093/mnras/stx1713.
short: A. Stroe, D. Sobral, J.J. Matthee, J. Calhau, I. Oteo, Monthly Notices of
the Royal Astronomical Society 471 (2017) 2575–2586.
date_created: 2022-07-12T12:54:57Z
date_published: 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-08-19T08:02:04Z
day: '01'
doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx1713
extern: '1'
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arxiv:
- '1703.10169'
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issue: '3'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 'galaxies: active'
- 'galaxies: high redshift'
- 'galaxies: luminosity function'
- mass function
- 'quasars: emission lines'
- star formation
- 'cosmology: observations'
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title: A 1.4 deg2 blind survey for C II], C III] and C IV at z ∼ 0.7–1.5 – II. Luminosity
functions and cosmic average line ratios
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