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AN ULTRALUMINOUS LYα EMITTER WITH A BLUE WING AT z = 6.6

  • Authors: E. M. Hu, L. L. Cowie, A. Songaila, A. J. Barger, B. Rosenwasser, and I. Wold

2016 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 825 L7.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

Two-dimensional spectra of the LAEs. Lyα luminosity decreases from left to right. COLA1 (﹩\mathrm{log}L({\rm{Ly}}\alpha )=43.9\ \mathrm{erg}\ {{\rm{s}}}^{-1}﹩) shows a clear blue extension, CR7 (﹩\mathrm{log}L({\rm{Ly}}\alpha )=43.8\ \mathrm{erg}\;{{\rm{s}}}^{-1}﹩) does not show a clear sharp velocity edge, and the two lower-luminosity objects (GN-6 with ﹩\mathrm{log}L({\rm{Ly}}\alpha )=43.3\ \mathrm{erg}\;{{\rm{s}}}^{-1}﹩) and A370-6 with ﹩\mathrm{log}L({\rm{Ly}}\alpha )=43.2\ \mathrm{erg}\ {{\rm{s}}}^{-1}﹩) show the sharp razor-edge cutoff typical of lower-luminosity objects at this redshift. In all cases the zero velocity is shown at the Lyα peak and the vertical red line marks ﹩-100\ \mathrm{km}\;{{\rm{s}}}^{-1}﹩. The contours drop by a multiplicative factor of two. At the bottom we show the line profile (black) and the spectral resolution profile (red) centered at ﹩0\ \mathrm{km}\;{{\rm{s}}}^{-1}﹩.

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