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Main Authors: Yoshioka, Takehiro, Kashikawa, Nobunari, Takeda, Yoshihiro, Ito, Kei, Liang, Yongming, Ishimoto, Rikako, Arita, Junya, Nishimura, Yuri, Hoshi, Hiroki, Shimizu, Shunta
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14676
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author Yoshioka, Takehiro
Kashikawa, Nobunari
Takeda, Yoshihiro
Ito, Kei
Liang, Yongming
Ishimoto, Rikako
Arita, Junya
Nishimura, Yuri
Hoshi, Hiroki
Shimizu, Shunta
author_facet Yoshioka, Takehiro
Kashikawa, Nobunari
Takeda, Yoshihiro
Ito, Kei
Liang, Yongming
Ishimoto, Rikako
Arita, Junya
Nishimura, Yuri
Hoshi, Hiroki
Shimizu, Shunta
contents The Ly$α$ emission line is a characteristic feature found in high-$z$ galaxies, serving as a probe of cosmic reionization. While previous works present various correlations between Ly$α$ emission and physical properties of host galaxies, it is still unclear which characteristics predominantly determine the Ly$α$ emission. In this study, we introduce a neural network approach to simultaneously handle multiple properties of galaxies. The neural-network-based prediction model that identifies Ly$α$ emitters (LAEs) from six physical properties: star formation rate (SFR), stellar mass, UV absolute magnitude $M_\mathrm{UV}$, age, UV slope $β$, and dust attenuation $E(B-V)$, obtained by the SED fitting. The network is trained with galaxy samples from the VANDELS and MUSE spectroscopic surveys and achieves the performance of 77% true positive rate and 14% false positive rate. The permutation feature importance method shows that $β$, $M_\mathrm{UV}$, and $M_*$ are important for the prediction of LAEs. As an independent validation, we find that 91% of LAEs spectroscopically confirmed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have a probability of LAE higher than 70% in this model. This prediction model enables the efficient construction of a large LAE sample in a wide and continuous redshift space using only photometric data. We apply the prediction model to the JWST photometric galaxy sample and obtain Ly$α$ fraction consistent with previous studies. Moreover, we demonstrate that the difference between the distributions of LAEs predicted by the model and the spectroscopically identified LAEs provides a strong constraint on the HII bubble size.
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spellingShingle Predicting Ly$α$ Emission from Distant Galaxies with Neural Network Architecture
Yoshioka, Takehiro
Kashikawa, Nobunari
Takeda, Yoshihiro
Ito, Kei
Liang, Yongming
Ishimoto, Rikako
Arita, Junya
Nishimura, Yuri
Hoshi, Hiroki
Shimizu, Shunta
Astrophysics of Galaxies
The Ly$α$ emission line is a characteristic feature found in high-$z$ galaxies, serving as a probe of cosmic reionization. While previous works present various correlations between Ly$α$ emission and physical properties of host galaxies, it is still unclear which characteristics predominantly determine the Ly$α$ emission. In this study, we introduce a neural network approach to simultaneously handle multiple properties of galaxies. The neural-network-based prediction model that identifies Ly$α$ emitters (LAEs) from six physical properties: star formation rate (SFR), stellar mass, UV absolute magnitude $M_\mathrm{UV}$, age, UV slope $β$, and dust attenuation $E(B-V)$, obtained by the SED fitting. The network is trained with galaxy samples from the VANDELS and MUSE spectroscopic surveys and achieves the performance of 77% true positive rate and 14% false positive rate. The permutation feature importance method shows that $β$, $M_\mathrm{UV}$, and $M_*$ are important for the prediction of LAEs. As an independent validation, we find that 91% of LAEs spectroscopically confirmed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have a probability of LAE higher than 70% in this model. This prediction model enables the efficient construction of a large LAE sample in a wide and continuous redshift space using only photometric data. We apply the prediction model to the JWST photometric galaxy sample and obtain Ly$α$ fraction consistent with previous studies. Moreover, we demonstrate that the difference between the distributions of LAEs predicted by the model and the spectroscopically identified LAEs provides a strong constraint on the HII bubble size.
title Predicting Ly$α$ Emission from Distant Galaxies with Neural Network Architecture
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14676