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2020MNRAS.493.3966K - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 493, 3966-3984 (2020/April-2)

A large, deep 3 deg2 survey of H α, [O III], and [O II] emitters from LAGER: constraining luminosity functions.

KHOSTOVAN A.A., MALHOTRA S., RHOADS J.E., JIANG C., WANG J., WOLD I., ZHENG Z.-Y., BARRIENTOS L.F., COUGHLIN A., HARISH S., HU W., INFANTE L., PEREZ L.A., PHARO J., VALDES F., WALKER A.R. and YANG H.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present our measurements of the H α, [O III], and [O II] luminosity functions as part of the Lyman Alpha Galaxies at Epoch of Reionization (LAGER) survey using our samples of 1577 z = 0.47 H α-, 3933 z = 0.93 [O III]-, and 5367 z = 1.59 [O II]-selected emission line galaxies in a 3 deg2 single, CTIO/Blanco DECam pointing of the COSMOS field. Our observations reach 5σ depths of 8.2 x 10–18 erg s–1 cm–2 and comoving volumes of (1-7) x 105 Mpc3 making our survey one of the deepest narrow-band surveys. We select our emission line galaxies via spectroscopic confirmation, photometric redshifts, and colour-colour selections. We measure the observed luminosity functions for each sample and find best fits of φ*=10-3.16^+0.09–0.09 Mpc–3 and L*=1041.72^+0.09–0.09 erg s–1 for H α, φ*=10-2.16^+0.10–0.12 Mpc–3 and L*=1041.38^+0.07–0.06 erg s–1 for [O III], and φ*=10-1.97^+0.07–0.07 Mpc–3 and L*=1041.66^+0.03–0.03 erg s–1 for [O II], with α fixed to -1.75, -1.6, and -1.3, respectively. An excess of bright >1042 erg s–1 [O III] emitters is observed and may be due to active galactic nucleus (AGN) contamination. Corrections for dust attenuation are applied assuming AHα = 1 mag. We also design our own empirical rest-frame g - r calibration using SDSS DR12 data, test it against our z = 0.47 H α emitters with zCOSMOS 1D spectra, and calibrate it for (g - r) between -0.8 and 1.3 mag. Dust and AGN-corrected star formation rate densities (SFRDs) are measured as log10ρSFR/(M☉ yr–1 Mpc–3) = -1.63 ± 0.04, -1.07 ± 0.06, and -0.90 ± 0.10 for H α, [O III], and [O II], respectively. We find our [O III] and [O II] samples fully trace cosmic star formation activity at their respective redshifts in comparison to multiwavelength SFRDs, while the H α sample traces ∼70 per cent of the total z = 0.47 SFRD.

Abstract Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: evolution - galaxies: high-redshift - galaxies: star formation - cosmology: observations

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