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- Feldmeier, John J., et al.
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SEARCHING FOR NEUTRAL HYDROGEN HALOS AROUND z similar to 2.1 AND z similar to 3.1 Ly alpha EMITTING GALAXIES
- 2013
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Ingår i: Astrophysical Journal. - 0004-637X .- 1538-4357. ; 776:2, s. 75-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We search for evidence of diffuse Ly alpha emission from extended neutral hydrogen surrounding Ly alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) using deep narrow-band images of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South. By stacking the profiles of 187 LAEs at z = 2.06, 241 LAEs at z = 3.10, and 179 LAEs at z = 3.12, and carefully performing low-surface brightness photometry, we obtain mean surface brightness maps that reach 9.9, 8.7, and 6.2 x 10(-19) erg cm(-2) s(-1) arcsec(-2) in the emission line. We undertake a thorough investigation of systematic uncertainties in our surface brightness measurements and find that our limits are 5-10 times larger than would be expected from Poisson background fluctuations; these uncertainties are often underestimated in the literature. At z similar to 3.1, we find evidence for extended halos with small-scale lengths of 5-8 kpc in some but not all of our sub-samples. We demonstrate that sub-samples of LAEs with low equivalent widths and brighter continuum magnitudes are more likely to possess such halos. At z similar to 2.1, we find no evidence of extended Ly alpha emission down to our detection limits. Through Monte-Carlo simulations, we also show that we would have detected large diffuse LAE halos if they were present in our data sets. We compare these findings to other measurements in the literature and discuss possible instrumental and astrophysical reasons for the discrepancies.
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- Berry, Michael, et al.
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STACKED REST-FRAME ULTRAVIOLET SPECTRA OF Ly alpha-EMITTING AND CONTINUUM-SELECTED GALAXIES AT 2 < z < 3.5
- 2012
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Ingår i: Astrophysical Journal. - 0004-637X .- 1538-4357. ; 749:1, s. 4-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present properties of individual and composite rest-UV spectra of continuum-and narrowband-selected star-forming galaxies (SFGs) at a redshift of 2 < z < 3.5 discovered by the MUSYC collaboration in the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South. Among our sample of 81 UV-bright SFGs, 59 have R < 25.5, of which 32 have rest-frame equivalent widths of W-Ly alpha > 20 angstrom, the canonical limit to be classified as an Ly alpha-emitting galaxy. We divide our data set into subsamples based on properties that we are able to measure for each individual galaxy: Ly alpha equivalent width, rest-frame UV colors, and redshift. Among our subsample of galaxies with R < 25.5, those with rest frame W-Ly alpha > 20 angstrom have bluer UV continua, weaker low-ionization interstellar absorption lines, weaker C IV absorption, and stronger Si II* nebular emission than those with W-Ly alpha < 20 angstrom. We measure a velocity offset of Delta nu similar to 600 km s(-1) between Ly alpha emission and low-ionization absorption, which does not vary substantially among any of our subsamples. We find that the interstellar component, as opposed to the stellar component, dominates the high-ionization absorption line profiles. We find that the low-and high-ionization Si ionization states have similar kinematic properties, yet the low-ionization absorption is correlated with Ly alpha emission and the high-ionization absorption is not. These trends are consistent with outflowing neutral gas being in the form of neutral clouds embedded in ionized gas as previously suggested by Steidel et al. Moreover, our galaxies with bluer UV colors have stronger Ly alpha emission, weaker low-ionization absorption, and more prominent nebular emission line profiles. From a redshift of 2.7 < z < 3.5 to 2.0 < z < 2.7, our subsample of galaxies with W-Ly alpha < 20 angstrom shows no significant evolution in their physical properties or the nature of their outflows. Among our data set, UV-bright galaxies with W-Ly alpha > 20 angstrom exhibit weaker Ly alpha emission at lower redshifts, although we caution that this could be caused by spectroscopic confirmation of low Ly alpha equivalent width galaxies being harder at z similar to 3 than z similar to 2.
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