التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
MIDIS: Unveiling the Role of Strong H α Emitters During the Epoch of Reionization with JWST. |
| المؤلفون: |
Rinaldi, P., Caputi, K. I., Iani, E., Costantin, L., Gillman, S., Perez Gonzalez, P. G., Östlin, G., Colina, L., Greve, T. R., Nørgard-Nielsen, H. U., Wright, G. S., Álvarez-Márquez, J., Eckart, A., García-Marín, M., Hjorth, J., Ilbert, O., Kendrew, S., Labiano, A., Le Fèvre, O., Pye, J. |
| المصدر: |
Astrophysical Journal; 7/1/2024, Vol. 969 Issue 1, p1-15, 15p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
INTERSTELLAR medium, STAR formation, GALACTIC evolution, MEDIAN (Mathematics), STELLAR mass, GALACTIC redshift, STARBURSTS |
| الشركة/الكيان: |
JAMES Webb Space Telescope (Spacecraft) |
| مستخلص: |
By using an ultradeep JWST/MIRI image at 5.6 μ m in the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, we constrain the role of strong H α emitters (HAEs) during "cosmic reionization" at z ≃ 7–8. Our sample of HAEs is comprised of young (<35 Myr) galaxies, except for one single galaxy (≈300 Myr), with low stellar masses (≲109 M ⊙). These HAEs show a wide range of rest-frame UV continuum slopes (β), with a median value of β = −2.15 ± 0.21, which broadly correlates with stellar mass. We estimate the ionizing photon production efficiency (ξ ion,0) of these sources (assuming f esc,LyC = 0%), which yields a median value log 10 (ξ ion , 0 / (Hz erg − 1)) = 25.50 − 0.12 + 0.10 . We show that ξ ion,0 positively correlates with H α equivalent width and specific star formation rate. Instead ξ ion,0 weakly anticorrelates with stellar mass and β. Based on the β values, we predict f esc , LyC = 4 % − 2 + 3 , which results in log 10 (ξ ion / (Hz erg − 1)) = 25.55 − 0.13 + 0.11 . Considering this and related findings from the literature, we find a mild evolution of ξ ion with redshift. Additionally, our results suggest that these HAEs require only modest escape fractions (f esc,rel) of 6%–15% to reionize their surrounding intergalactic medium. By only considering the contribution of these HAEs, we estimated their total ionizing emissivity ( N ̇ ion ) as N ̇ ion = 10 50.53 ± 0.45 s − 1 Mpc − 3 . When comparing their N ̇ ion with non-HAE galaxies across the same redshift range, we find that that strong, young, and low-mass emitters may have played an important role during cosmic reionization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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