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2021MNRAS.500..558M - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 500, 558-564 (2021/January-1)

Double-peaked Lyman α emission at z = 6.803: a reionization-era galaxy self-ionizing its local H II bubble.

MEYER R.A., LAPORTE N., ELLIS R.S., VERHAMME A. and GAREL T.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the discovery of a double-peaked Lyman α profile in a galaxy at z = 6.803, A370p_z1, in the parallel Frontier Field of Abell 370. The velocity separation between the blue and red peaks of the Lyman α profile (Δv=101–19+38 (±48) km s–1) suggests an extremely high escape fraction of ionizing photons > 59(51) per cent (2σ). The spectral energy distribution indicates a young (50 Myr), star-forming (12±6 M☉yr–1) galaxy with an IRAC excess implying strong [O III] + H β emission. On the basis of the high escape fraction measured, we demonstrate that A370p_z1 was solely capable of creating an ionized bubble sufficiently large to account for the blue component of its Lyman α profile. We discuss whether A370p_z1 may be representative of a larger population of luminous z ≃ 7 double-peaked Lyman α emitting sources with high escape fractions that self-ionized their surroundings without contributions from associated ultraviolet-fainter sources.

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

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: high-redshift - dark ages, reionization, first stars

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