The Lyman Continuum escape fraction of faint galaxies at z\textasciitilde3.3 in the CANDELS/GOODS-North, EGS, and COSMOS fields with LBC. Grazian, A., Giallongo, E., Paris, D., Boutsia, K., Dickinson, M., Santini, P., Windhorst, R. A., Jansen, R. A., Cohen, S. H., Ashcraft, T. A., Scarlata, C., Rutkowski, M. J., Vanzella, E., Cusano, F., Cristiani, S., Giavalisco, M., Ferguson, H. C., Koekemoer, A., Grogin, N. A., Castellano, M., Fiore, F., Fontana, A., Marchi, F., Pedichini, F., Pentericci, L., Amorin, R., Barro, G., Bonchi, A., Bongiorno, A., Faber, S. M., Fumana, M., Galametz, A., Guaita, L., Kocevski, D. D., Merlin, E., Nonino, M., O'Connell, R. W., Pilo, S., Ryan, R. E., Sani, E., Speziali, R., Testa, V., Weiner, B., & Yan, H. ArXiv e-prints, 1703:arXiv:1703.00354, March, 2017.
The Lyman Continuum escape fraction of faint galaxies at z\textasciitilde3.3 in the CANDELS/GOODS-North, EGS, and COSMOS fields with LBC [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
The reionization of the Universe is one of the most important topics of present day astrophysical research. The most plausible candidates for the reionization process are star-forming galaxies, which according to the predictions of the majority of the theoretical and semi-analytical models should dominate the HI ionizing background at z\textasciitilde3. We aim at measuring the Lyman continuum escape fraction, which is one of the key parameters to compute the contribution of star-forming galaxies to the UV background. We have used ultra-deep U-band imaging (U=30.2mag at 1sigma) by LBC/LBT in the CANDELS/GOODS-North field, as well as deep imaging in COSMOS and EGS fields, in order to estimate the Lyman continuum escape fraction of 69 star-forming galaxies with secure spectroscopic redshifts at 3.27L*), while for the faint population (L=0.2L*) the limit to the escape fraction is \textasciitilde10%. We have computed the contribution of star-forming galaxies to the observed UV background at z\textasciitilde3 and we have found that it is not enough to keep the Universe ionized at these redshifts, unless their escape fraction increases significantly (\textgreater10%) at low luminosities (M1500\textgreater-19). We compare our results on the Lyman continuum escape fraction of high-z galaxies with recent estimates in the literature and discuss future prospects to shed light on the end of the Dark Ages. In the future, strong gravitational lensing will be fundamental to measure the Lyman continuum escape fraction down to faint magnitudes (M1500\textasciitilde-16) which are inaccessible with the present instrumentation on blank fields.
@article{grazian_lyman_2017,
	title = {The {Lyman} {Continuum} escape fraction of faint galaxies at z{\textasciitilde}3.3 in the {CANDELS}/{GOODS}-{North}, {EGS}, and {COSMOS} fields with {LBC}},
	volume = {1703},
	url = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017arXiv170300354G},
	abstract = {The reionization of the Universe is one of the most important topics of 
present day astrophysical research. The most plausible candidates for
the reionization process are star-forming galaxies, which according to
the predictions of the majority of the theoretical and semi-analytical
models should dominate the HI ionizing background at z{\textasciitilde}3. We aim at
measuring the Lyman continuum escape fraction, which is one of the key
parameters to compute the contribution of star-forming galaxies to the
UV background. We have used ultra-deep U-band imaging (U=30.2mag at
1sigma) by LBC/LBT in the CANDELS/GOODS-North field, as well as deep
imaging in COSMOS and EGS fields, in order to estimate the Lyman
continuum escape fraction of 69 star-forming galaxies with secure
spectroscopic redshifts at 3.27L*), while
for the faint population (L=0.2L*) the limit to the escape fraction is
{\textasciitilde}10\%. We have computed the contribution of star-forming galaxies to the
observed UV background at z{\textasciitilde}3 and we have found that it is not enough to
keep the Universe ionized at these redshifts, unless their escape
fraction increases significantly ({\textgreater}10\%) at low luminosities
(M1500{\textgreater}-19). We compare our results on the Lyman continuum escape
fraction of high-z galaxies with recent estimates in the literature and
discuss future prospects to shed light on the end of the Dark Ages. In
the future, strong gravitational lensing will be fundamental to measure
the Lyman continuum escape fraction down to faint magnitudes (M1500{\textasciitilde}-16)
which are inaccessible with the present instrumentation on blank fields.},
	urldate = {2017-03-04},
	journal = {ArXiv e-prints},
	author = {Grazian, A. and Giallongo, E. and Paris, D. and Boutsia, K. and Dickinson, M. and Santini, P. and Windhorst, R. A. and Jansen, R. A. and Cohen, S. H. and Ashcraft, T. A. and Scarlata, C. and Rutkowski, M. J. and Vanzella, E. and Cusano, F. and Cristiani, S. and Giavalisco, M. and Ferguson, H. C. and Koekemoer, A. and Grogin, N. A. and Castellano, M. and Fiore, F. and Fontana, A. and Marchi, F. and Pedichini, F. and Pentericci, L. and Amorin, R. and Barro, G. and Bonchi, A. and Bongiorno, A. and Faber, S. M. and Fumana, M. and Galametz, A. and Guaita, L. and Kocevski, D. D. and Merlin, E. and Nonino, M. and O'Connell, R. W. and Pilo, S. and Ryan, R. E. and Sani, E. and Speziali, R. and Testa, V. and Weiner, B. and Yan, H.},
	month = mar,
	year = {2017},
	keywords = {Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies},
	pages = {arXiv:1703.00354},
}

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