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2007ApJ...671..278G - Astrophys. J., 671, 278-284 (2007/December-2)

Lyα-emitting galaxies at z = 3.1:L* progenitors experiencing rapid star formation.

GAWISER E., FRANCKE H., LAI K., SCHAWINSKI K., GRONWALL C., CIARDULLO R., QUADRI R., ORSI A., BARRIENTOS L.F., BLANC G.A., FAZIO G., FELDMEIER J.J., HUANG J.-S., INFANTE L., LIRA P., PADILLA N., TAYLOR E.N., TREISTER E., URRY C.M., VAN DOKKUM P.G. and VIRANI S.N.

Abstract (from CDS):

We studied the clustering properties and multiwavelength spectral energy distributions of a complete sample of 162 Lyα-emitting (LAE) galaxies at z≃3.1 discovered in deep narrowband MUSYC imaging of the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South. LAEs were selected to have observed frame equivalent widths >80 Å and emission line fluxes >1.5x10–17 ergs/cm2/s. Only 1% of our LAE sample appears to host AGNs. The LAEs exhibit a moderate spatial correlation length of r0=3.6+0.8–1.0Mpc, corresponding to a bias factor b=1.7+0.3–0.4, which implies median dark matter halo masses of log10Mmed=10.9+0.5–0.9 M. Comparing the number density of LAEs, 1.5±0.3x10–3/Mpc3, with the number density of these halos finds a mean halo occupation ∼1%-10%. The evolution of galaxy bias with redshift implies that most z=3.1 LAEs evolve into present-day galaxies with L<2.5L*, whereas other z>3 galaxy populations typically evolve into more massive galaxies. Halo merger trees show that z=0 descendants occupy halos with a wide range of masses, with a median descendant mass close to that of L*. Only 30% of LAEs have sufficient stellar mass (≳3x109 M) to yield detections in deep Spitzer IRAC imaging. A two-population SED fit to the stacked UBVRIzJK+[3.6, 4.5, 5.6, 8.0] µm fluxes of the IRAC-undetected objects finds that the typical LAE has low stellar mass (1.0+0.6–0.4x109 M), moderate star formation rate (2±1 M/yr), a young component age of 20+30–10Myr, and little dust (AV<0.2). The best-fit model has 20% of the mass in the young stellar component, but models without evolved stars are also allowed.

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Journal keyword(s): Galaxies: Evolution - Galaxies: Formation - Galaxies: High-Redshift - Cosmology: Large-Scale Structure of Universe

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