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Detections of Faint Lyα Emitters at z = 5.7: Galaxy Building Blocks and Engines of Reionization

  • Authors: Alan Dressler, Crystal L. Martin, Alaina Henry, Marcin Sawicki, and Patrick McCarthy

Dressler et al. 2011 The Astrophysical Journal 740 71.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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COSMOS Survey detections of emission-line galaxies with a blue continuum in the NB816 filter, which includes emission-line sources brighter than F = 10 −16.85 erg s −1 cm −2. Components of this sample are [O ii] emission at z ≈ 1.19, [O iii] at z ≈ 0.63, and Hα at z ≈ 0.25. The smaller circle is the IMACS field of our 2008 search; the larger circle, with a 0 fdg70 radius, is the area we used for determining the foreground contamination per area. (This is most but not all of the rectangular area of the NB816 catalog.) Large-scale structure in the distribution of foreground galaxies can be clearly seen, particularly for the [O ii] emitters.

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