2022ApJS..260....1F

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2022ApJS..260....1F - Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 260, 1-1 (2022/May-0)

The Low-redshift Lyman Continuum Survey. I. New, Diverse Local Lyman Continuum Emitters.

FLURY S.R., JASKOT A.E., FERGUSON H.C., WORSECK G., MAKAN K., CHISHOLM J., SALDANA-LOPEZ A., SCHAERER D., McCANDLISS S., WANG B., FORD N.M., HECKMAN T., JI Z., GIAVALISCO M., AMORIN R., ATEK H., BLAIZOT J., BORTHAKUR S., CARR C., CASTELLANO M., CRISTIANI S., DE BARROS S., DICKINSON M., FINKELSTEIN S.L., FLEMING B., FONTANOT F., GAREL T., GRAZIAN A., HAYES M., HENRY A., MAUERHOFER V., MICHEVA G., OEY M.S., OSTLIN G., PAPOVICH C., PENTERICCI L., RAVINDRANATH S., ROSDAHL J., RUTKOWSKI M., SANTINI P., SCARLATA C., TEPLITZ H., THUAN T., TREBITSCH M., VANZELLA E., VERHAMME A. and XU X.

Abstract (from CDS):

The origins of Lyman continuum (LyC) photons responsible for the reionization of the universe are as of yet unknown and highly contested. Detecting LyC photons from the Epoch of Reionization is not possible due to absorption by the intergalactic medium, which has prompted the development of several indirect diagnostics to infer the rate at which galaxies contribute LyC photons to reionize the universe by studying lower-redshift analogs. We present the Low-redshift Lyman Continuum Survey (LzLCS) comprising measurements made with the Hubble Space Telescope Cosmic Origins Spectrograph for a z = 0.2-0.4 sample of 66 galaxies. After careful processing of the far-UV spectra, we obtain a total of 35 Lyman continuum emitters (LCEs) detected with 97.725% confidence, nearly tripling the number of known local LCEs. We estimate escape fractions from the detected LyC flux and upper limits on the undetected LyC flux, finding a range of LyC escape fractions up to 50%. Of the 35 LzLCS LCEs, 12 have LyC escape fractions greater than 5%, more than doubling the number of known local LCEs with cosmologically relevant LyC escape.

Abstract Copyright: © 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Reionization - Galactic and extragalactic astronomy - Ultraviolet astronomy - Hubble Space Telescope

Errata: erratum vol. 275, art. 47 (2024)

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Number of rows : 2
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA 		ICRS (J2000)
DEC 		Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026 		#notes
1 SDSS J112721.00+461042.4 G 11 27 21.00264 +46 10 42.4992           ~ 5 0
2 SDSS J124810.48+425953.7 G 12 48 10.4839133976 +42 59 53.683847016           ~ 17 0

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