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The GLARE Survey - II. Faint z 6 Ly line emitters in the HUDF

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Stanway, Elizabeth R., Bunker, Andrew J. (Andrew John), Glazebrook, Karl, Abraham, Roberto G., Rhoads, J., Malhotra, Sangeeta, Crampton, David, Colless, Matthew and Chiu, K. (2007) The GLARE Survey - II. Faint z 6 Ly line emitters in the HUDF. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 376 (Number 2). pp. 727-738. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11469.x

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Abstract

The galaxy population at z≈ 6 has been the subject of intense study in recent years, culminating in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) – the deepest imaging survey yet. A large number of high-redshift galaxy candidates have been identified within the HUDF, but until now analysis of their properties has been hampered by the difficulty of obtaining spectroscopic redshifts for these faint galaxies. Our ‘Gemini Lyman-Alpha at Reionization Era’ (GLARE) project has been designed to undertake spectroscopic follow-up of faint (z′ < 28.5)i′-drop galaxies at z≈ 6 in the HUDF. In a previous paper we presented preliminary results from the first 7.5 h of data from GLARE. In this paper we detail the complete survey. We have now obtained 36 h of spectroscopy on a single GMOS slitmask from Gemini-South, with a spectral resolution of λ/ΔλFWHM≈ 1000. We identify five strong Lyα emitters at z > 5.5, and a further nine possible line emitters with detections at lower significance. We also place tight constraints on the equivalent width of Lyα emission for a further ten i′-drop galaxies and examine the equivalent width distribution of this faint spectroscopic sample of z≈ 6 galaxies. We find that the fraction of galaxies with little or no emission is similar to that at z≈ 3, but that the z≈ 6 population has a tail of sources with high rest-frame equivalent widths. Possible explanations for this effect include a tendency towards stronger line emission in faint sources, which may arise from extreme youth or low metallicity in the Lyman-break population at high redshift, or possibly a top-heavy initial mass function.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Physics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Galaxies -- Evolution
Journal or Publication Title: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 0035-8711
Official Date: 1 April 2007
Dates:
DateEvent
1 April 2007Published
3 January 2007Accepted
11 September 2006Submitted
Volume: Volume 376
Number: Number 2
Page Range: pp. 727-738
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11469.x
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder: National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF), Philip Leverhulme Prize
Grant number: AST 02- 39425 (NSF)
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