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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Vanzella, E
• Nonino, M
• Cupani, G
• Castellano, M
• Sani, E
• Mignoli, M
• Calura, F
• Meneghetti, M
• Gilli, R
• Comastri, A
• Mercurio, A
• Caminha, G B
• Caputi, K
• Rosati, P
• Grillo, C
• Cristiani, S
• Balestra, I
• Fontana, A
• Giavalisco, M

Titel

Direct Lyman continuum and Ly α escape observed at redshift 4

Ist Teil von

• Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters, 2018-05, Vol.476 (1), p.L15-L19

Ort / Verlag

Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract We report on the serendipitous discovery of a z = 4.0, M1500 = −22.20 star-forming galaxy (Ion3) showing copious Lyman continuum (LyC) leakage (∼60 per cent escaping), a remarkable multiple peaked Ly α emission, and significant Ly α radiation directly emerging at the resonance frequency. This is the highest redshift confirmed LyC emitter in which the ionizing and Ly α radiation possibly share a common ionized channel (with NH I < 1017.2 cm−2). Ion3 is spatially resolved, it shows clear stellar winds signatures like the P-Cygni N vλ1240 profile, and has blue ultraviolet continuum (β = −2.5 ± 0.25, Fλ ∼ λβ) with weak low-ionization interstellar metal lines. Deep VLT/HAWKI Ks and Spitzer/IRAC 3.6 and 4.5μm imaging show a clear photometric signature of the H α line with equivalent width of 1000 Å rest-frame emerging over a flat continuum (Ks − 4.5μm ≃ 0). From the SED fitting, we derive a stellar mass of 1.5 × 109 M⊙, SFR of 140 M⊙ yr−1 and age of ∼10 Myr, with a low dust extinction, E(B − V) ≲ 0.1, placing the source in the starburst region of the SFR−M* plane. Ion3 shows similar properties of another LyC emitter previously discovered (z = 3.21, Ion2, Vanzella et al. 2016). Ion3 (and Ion2) represents ideal high-redshift reference cases to guide the search for reionizing sources at z > 6.5 with JWST.