D. Sobral
The CALYMHA survey: Lyα luminosity function and global escape fraction of Lyα photons at z = 2.23
Sobral, D.; Matthee, J.; Best, P.; Stroe, A.; Röttgering, H.; Oteo, I.; Smail, I.; Morabito, L.; Paulino-Afonso, A.
Authors
J. Matthee
P. Best
A. Stroe
H. Röttgering
I. Oteo
Ian Smail ian.smail@durham.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor
Professor Leah Morabito leah.k.morabito@durham.ac.uk
Professor
A. Paulino-Afonso
Abstract
We present the CAlibrating LYMan-α with Hα (CALYMHA) pilot survey and new results on Lyman α (Lyα) selected galaxies at z ∼ 2. We use a custom-built Lyα narrow-band filter at the Isaac Newton Telescope, designed to provide a matched volume coverage to the z = 2.23 Hα HiZELS survey. Here, we present the first results for the COSMOS and UDS fields. Our survey currently reaches a 3σ line flux limit of ∼4 × 10−17 erg s−1 cm−2, and a Lyα luminosity limit of ∼1042.3 erg s−1. We find 188 Lyα emitters over 7.3 × 105 Mpc3, but also find significant numbers of other line-emitting sources corresponding to He ii, C iii] and C iv emission lines. These sources are important contaminants, and we carefully remove them, unlike most previous studies. We find that the Lyα luminosity function at z = 2.23 is very well described by a Schechter function up to LLy α ≈ 1043 erg s−1 with L∗=1042.59+0.16−0.08 L∗=1042.59−0.08+0.16 erg s−1, ϕ∗=10−3.09+0.14−0.34 ϕ∗=10−3.09−0.34+0.14 Mpc−3 and α = −1.75 ± 0.25. Above LLy α ≈ 1043 erg s−1, the Lyα luminosity function becomes power-law like, driven by X-ray AGN. We find that Lyα-selected emitters have a high escape fraction of 37 ± 7 per cent, anticorrelated with Lyα luminosity and correlated with Lyα equivalent width. Lyα emitters have ubiquitous large (≈40 kpc) Lyα haloes, ∼2 times larger than their Hα extents. By directly comparing our Lyα and Hα luminosity functions, we find that the global/overall escape fraction of Lyα photons (within a 13 kpc radius) from the full population of star-forming galaxies is 5.1 ± 0.2 per cent at the peak of the star formation history. An extra 3.3 ± 0.3 per cent of Lyα photons likely still escape, but at larger radii.
Citation
Sobral, D., Matthee, J., Best, P., Stroe, A., Röttgering, H., Oteo, I., …Paulino-Afonso, A. (2017). The CALYMHA survey: Lyα luminosity function and global escape fraction of Lyα photons at z = 2.23. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 466(1), 1242-1258. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3090
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Nov 25, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 30, 2016 |
Publication Date | Apr 1, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Feb 22, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 2, 2017 |
Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Print ISSN | 0035-8711 |
Electronic ISSN | 1365-2966 |
Publisher | Royal Astronomical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 466 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 1242-1258 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3090 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1364455 |
Related Public URLs | https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05897 |
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