The JWST/PASSAGE Survey: Testing Reionization Histories with JWST's First Unbiased Survey for Lyman alpha Emitters at Redshifts 7.5-9.5
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| author | Runnholm, Axel Hayes, Matthew J. Mehta, Vihang Malkan, Matthew A. Scarlata, Claudia Nedkova, Kalina V. Rafelski, Marc Vulcani, Benedetta Huberty, Mason Herenz, E. Christian Hutter, Anne Bruton, Sean Acharyya, Ayan Atek, Hakim Baronchelli, Ivano Battisti, Andrew J. Bradač, Maruša Bunker, Andrew J. Dai, Y. Sophia Hannahs, Clea Hasan, Farhanul Kim, Keunho J. Leethochawalit, Nicha Lin, Yu-Heng Rutkowski, Michael J. Saldana-Lopez, Alberto Sattari, Zahra Wang, Xin |
| author_facet | Runnholm, Axel Hayes, Matthew J. Mehta, Vihang Malkan, Matthew A. Scarlata, Claudia Nedkova, Kalina V. Rafelski, Marc Vulcani, Benedetta Huberty, Mason Herenz, E. Christian Hutter, Anne Bruton, Sean Acharyya, Ayan Atek, Hakim Baronchelli, Ivano Battisti, Andrew J. Bradač, Maruša Bunker, Andrew J. Dai, Y. Sophia Hannahs, Clea Hasan, Farhanul Kim, Keunho J. Leethochawalit, Nicha Lin, Yu-Heng Rutkowski, Michael J. Saldana-Lopez, Alberto Sattari, Zahra Wang, Xin |
| contents | Lyman $α$ (Ly$α$) emission is one of few observable features of galaxies that can trace the neutral hydrogen content in the Universe during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). To accomplish this we need an efficient way to survey for Ly$α$ emitters (LAEs) at redshifts beyond 7, requiring unbiased emission-line observations that are both sufficiently deep and wide to cover enough volume to detect them. Here we present results from PASSAGE -- a pure-parallel JWST/NIRISS slitless spectroscopic survey to detect Ly$α$ emitters deep into the EoR, without the bias of photometric preselection. We identify four LAEs at $7.5\leq z\leq9.5$ in four surveyed pointings, and estimate the luminosity function (LF). We find that the LF does show a marked decrease compared to post-reionization measurements, but the change is a factor of $\lesssim 10$, which is less than expected from theoretical calculations and simulations, as well as observational expectations from the pre-JWST literature. Modeling of the IGM and expected \lya\ profiles implies these galaxies reside in ionized bubbles of $\gtrapprox 2$ physical Mpc. We also report that in the four fields we detect {3,1,0,0} LAEs, which could indicate strong field-to-field variation in the LAE distribution, consistent with a patchy HI distribution at $z\sim8$. We compare the recovered LAE number counts with expectations from simulations and discuss the potential implications for reionization and its morphology. |
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| spellingShingle | The JWST/PASSAGE Survey: Testing Reionization Histories with JWST's First Unbiased Survey for Lyman alpha Emitters at Redshifts 7.5-9.5 Runnholm, Axel Hayes, Matthew J. Mehta, Vihang Malkan, Matthew A. Scarlata, Claudia Nedkova, Kalina V. Rafelski, Marc Vulcani, Benedetta Huberty, Mason Herenz, E. Christian Hutter, Anne Bruton, Sean Acharyya, Ayan Atek, Hakim Baronchelli, Ivano Battisti, Andrew J. Bradač, Maruša Bunker, Andrew J. Dai, Y. Sophia Hannahs, Clea Hasan, Farhanul Kim, Keunho J. Leethochawalit, Nicha Lin, Yu-Heng Rutkowski, Michael J. Saldana-Lopez, Alberto Sattari, Zahra Wang, Xin Astrophysics of Galaxies Lyman $α$ (Ly$α$) emission is one of few observable features of galaxies that can trace the neutral hydrogen content in the Universe during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). To accomplish this we need an efficient way to survey for Ly$α$ emitters (LAEs) at redshifts beyond 7, requiring unbiased emission-line observations that are both sufficiently deep and wide to cover enough volume to detect them. Here we present results from PASSAGE -- a pure-parallel JWST/NIRISS slitless spectroscopic survey to detect Ly$α$ emitters deep into the EoR, without the bias of photometric preselection. We identify four LAEs at $7.5\leq z\leq9.5$ in four surveyed pointings, and estimate the luminosity function (LF). We find that the LF does show a marked decrease compared to post-reionization measurements, but the change is a factor of $\lesssim 10$, which is less than expected from theoretical calculations and simulations, as well as observational expectations from the pre-JWST literature. Modeling of the IGM and expected \lya\ profiles implies these galaxies reside in ionized bubbles of $\gtrapprox 2$ physical Mpc. We also report that in the four fields we detect {3,1,0,0} LAEs, which could indicate strong field-to-field variation in the LAE distribution, consistent with a patchy HI distribution at $z\sim8$. We compare the recovered LAE number counts with expectations from simulations and discuss the potential implications for reionization and its morphology. |
| title | The JWST/PASSAGE Survey: Testing Reionization Histories with JWST's First Unbiased Survey for Lyman alpha Emitters at Redshifts 7.5-9.5 |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19174 |