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Tracing Lyα and LyC Escape in Galaxies with Mg II Emission

  • Authors: Xinfeng Xu, Alaina Henry, Timothy Heckman, John Chisholm, Gábor Worseck, Max Gronke, Anne Jaskot, Stephan R. McCandliss, Sophia R. Flury, Mauro Giavalisco, Zhiyuan Ji, Ricardo O. Amorín, Danielle A. Berg, Sanchayeeta Borthakur, Nicolas Bouche, Cody Carr, Dawn K. Erb, Harry Ferguson, Thibault Garel, Matthew Hayes, Kirill Makan, Rui Marques-Chaves, Michael Rutkowski, Göran Östlin, Marc Rafelski, Alberto Saldana-Lopez, Claudia Scarlata, Daniel Schaerer, Maxime Trebitsch, Christy Tremonti, Anne Verhamme, Bingjie Wang

Xinfeng Xu et al 2022 The Astrophysical Journal 933 .

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Caption: Figure 12.

Relationships between the escape fraction of Lyman continuum (﹩{f}_{\mathrm{esc}}^{\mathrm{LyC}}﹩, in y-axes) and three possible indirect indicators (x-axes): (1) ﹩{f}_{\mathrm{esc}}^{\mathrm{LyC}}﹩ vs. O32, (2) ﹩{f}_{\mathrm{esc}}^{\mathrm{LyC}}﹩ vs. the peak separation of Lyα emission line (V sep), and (3) ﹩{f}_{\mathrm{esc}}^{\mathrm{LyC}}﹩ vs. the escape fraction of Lyα. Galaxies from our Mg II selected sample are shown with red diamonds. Galaxies from comparison samples with high-S/N Mg II detections (Izotov et al. 2016a, 2018a, 2018b; Guseva et al. 2020; Izotov et al. 2021, and LzLCS) are shown with dark-gray diamonds. We also overlay other galaxies without high-S/N Mg II detections from the LzLCS sample. Their confirmed LyC leakers and nonleakers are shown with filled and open circles, respectively. In the right panel, galaxy J1246+4449 has two different V sep (shown in red and green) owing to its triple-peak Lyα feature (see Section 4.4). In the bottom panel, we show where y = x as the dashed orange lines.

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