2013ApJ...765...70H -
Astrophys. J., 765, 70 (2013/March-1)
Gas motion study of Lyα emitters at z ∼ 2 using FUV and optical spectral lines.
HASHIMOTO T., OUCHI M., SHIMASAKU K., ONO Y., NAKAJIMA K., RAUCH M., LEE J. and OKAMURA S.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present the results of Magellan/MMIRS and Keck/NIRSPEC spectroscopy for five Lyα emitters (LAEs) at z ≃ 2.2 for which high-resolution FUV spectra from Magellan/MagE are available. We detect nebular emission lines including Hα on the individual basis and low-ionization interstellar (LIS) absorption lines in a stacked FUV spectrum, and measure average offset velocities of the Lyα line, ΔvLyα, and LIS absorption lines, Δvabs, with respect to the systemic velocity defined by the nebular lines. For a sample of eight z ∼ 2-3 LAEs without active galactic nucleus from our study and the literature, we obtain ΔvLyα = 175±35 km/s, which is significantly smaller than that of Lyman-break Galaxies (LBGs), ΔvLyα≃ 400 km/s. The stacked FUV spectrum gives Δvabs= -179±73 km/s, comparable to that of LBGs. These positive ΔvLyα and negative Δvabssuggest that LAEs also have outflows. In contrast to LBGs, however, the LAEs' ΔvLyα is as small as|Δvabs|, suggesting low neutral hydrogen column densities. Such a low column density with a small number of resonant scattering may cause the observed strong Lyα emission of LAEs. We find an anti-correlation between Lyα equivalent width (EW) and ΔvLyα in a compilation of LAE and LBG samples. Although its physical origin is not clear, this anti-correlation result appears to challenge the hypothesis that a strong outflow, by means of a reduced number of resonant scattering, produces a large EW. If LAEs at z > 6 have similarly small ΔvLyαvalues, constraints on the reionization history derived from the Lyα transmissivity may need to be revised.
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Journal keyword(s):
cosmology: observations - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: formation - galaxies: high-redshift
Nomenclature:
Table 1: [HOS2013] CDFS-NNNN (Nos 3865, 6482), [HOS2013] COSMOS-NNNNN (Nos 13636, 30679, 43982).
Errata:
erratum vol. 775, art. 140 (2013)
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