The production and escape of Lyman-Continuum radiation from star-forming galaxies at z~2 and their redshift evolution

Matthee, Jorryt and Sobral, David and Best, Philip and Khostovan, Ali Ahmad and Oteo, Ivan and Bouwens, Rychard and Röttgering, Huub (2017) The production and escape of Lyman-Continuum radiation from star-forming galaxies at z~2 and their redshift evolution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465 (3). pp. 3637-3655. ISSN 0035-8711

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Abstract

We study the production and escape of ionizing photons of a sample of 588 H$\alpha$ (Ha) emitters (HAEs) at z=2.2 in COSMOS by exploring their rest-frame Lyman Continuum (LyC) with GALEX/NUV data. We find 8 candidate LyC leakers with f$_{esc}$>60% out of a clean subsample of 191 HAEs (i.e. without any neighbour or foreground galaxy inside the GALEX PSF). Overall, we measure a very low escape fraction f$_{esc}$ z

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Jorryt Matthee, David Sobral, Philip Best, Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Iván Oteo, Rychard Bouwens, Huub Röttgering; The production and escape of Lyman-Continuum radiation from star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 2 and their redshift evolution. MNRAS 2016; 465 (3): 3637-3655. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw2973 is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/mnras/stw2973
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?? astro-ph.gaastro-ph.cogalaxies: high-redshiftgalaxies: evolutioncosmology:observationscosmology: dark ages, re-ionisation, first stars.astronomy and astrophysicsspace and planetary science ??
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