Charting the Lyman-alpha escape fraction in the range 2.9<z<6.7 and consequences for the LAE reionisation contribution
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| author | Goovaerts, Ilias Thai, Tran Thi Pello, Roser Tuan-Anh, Pham Laporte, Nicolas Matthee, Jorryt Nanayakkara, Themiya Pharo, John |
| author_facet | Goovaerts, Ilias Thai, Tran Thi Pello, Roser Tuan-Anh, Pham Laporte, Nicolas Matthee, Jorryt Nanayakkara, Themiya Pharo, John |
| contents | The escape of Lyman-alpha photons at redshifts greater than two is an ongoing subject of study and an important quantity to further understanding of Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs), the transmission of Lyman-alpha photons through the interstellar medium and intergalactic medium, and the impact these LAEs have on cosmic reionisation. This study aims to assess the Lyman-alpha escape fraction over the redshift range 2.9<z<6.7, focusing on VLT/MUSE-selected, gravitationally lensed, intrinsically faint LAEs. These galaxies are of particular interest as the potential drivers of cosmic reionisation. We assessed the Lyman-alpha escape fraction in two ways: through an individual study of 96 LAEs behind the A2744 lensing cluster, with JWST/NIRCam and HST data, and through a study of the global evolution of the escape fraction using the state-of-the-art luminosity functions for LAEs and the UV-selected `parent' population (dust-corrected). We compared these studies to those in the literature based on brighter samples. We find a negligible redshift evolution of the escape fraction for our individual galaxies; it is likely that it was washed out by significant intrinsic scatter. We observed a more significant evolution towards higher escape fractions with decreasing UV magnitude and fit this relation. When comparing the two luminosity functions to derive the escape fraction in a global sense, we saw agreement with previous literature when integrating the luminosity functions to a bright limit. However, when integrating using a faint limit equivalent to the observational limits of our samples, we observed enhanced escape fraction values, particularly around z~6, where the escape fraction becomes consistent with 100%. This indicates for the faint regimes we sampled that galaxies towards reionisation tend to allow very large fractions of Lyman-alpha photons to escape. (shortened) |
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| spellingShingle | Charting the Lyman-alpha escape fraction in the range 2.9<z<6.7 and consequences for the LAE reionisation contribution Goovaerts, Ilias Thai, Tran Thi Pello, Roser Tuan-Anh, Pham Laporte, Nicolas Matthee, Jorryt Nanayakkara, Themiya Pharo, John Astrophysics of Galaxies The escape of Lyman-alpha photons at redshifts greater than two is an ongoing subject of study and an important quantity to further understanding of Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs), the transmission of Lyman-alpha photons through the interstellar medium and intergalactic medium, and the impact these LAEs have on cosmic reionisation. This study aims to assess the Lyman-alpha escape fraction over the redshift range 2.9<z<6.7, focusing on VLT/MUSE-selected, gravitationally lensed, intrinsically faint LAEs. These galaxies are of particular interest as the potential drivers of cosmic reionisation. We assessed the Lyman-alpha escape fraction in two ways: through an individual study of 96 LAEs behind the A2744 lensing cluster, with JWST/NIRCam and HST data, and through a study of the global evolution of the escape fraction using the state-of-the-art luminosity functions for LAEs and the UV-selected `parent' population (dust-corrected). We compared these studies to those in the literature based on brighter samples. We find a negligible redshift evolution of the escape fraction for our individual galaxies; it is likely that it was washed out by significant intrinsic scatter. We observed a more significant evolution towards higher escape fractions with decreasing UV magnitude and fit this relation. When comparing the two luminosity functions to derive the escape fraction in a global sense, we saw agreement with previous literature when integrating the luminosity functions to a bright limit. However, when integrating using a faint limit equivalent to the observational limits of our samples, we observed enhanced escape fraction values, particularly around z~6, where the escape fraction becomes consistent with 100%. This indicates for the faint regimes we sampled that galaxies towards reionisation tend to allow very large fractions of Lyman-alpha photons to escape. (shortened) |
| title | Charting the Lyman-alpha escape fraction in the range 2.9<z<6.7 and consequences for the LAE reionisation contribution |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00517 |