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Detection of an Extended Lyα Halo around a z = 6.64 Broad Absorption Line Quasar with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager

  • Authors: Raymond P. Remigio, Aaron J. Barth, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, Joseph F. Hennawi, Ryan J. Cooke, Eduardo Bañados, Xiaohui Fan, Emanuele Paolo Farina

Raymond P. Remigio et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

Left panel: the total flux (gray), extended Lyα (red), and 1σ error (blue) extracted over the 2D spatial mask as described in Section 3.1. The vertical dotted line denotes the expected wavelength of Lyα at the quasar’s [C II] redshift. The black arrow marks the location of N V. The purple band displays the spectral range ﹩({\lambda }_{{\rm{\min }}},{\lambda }_{{\rm{\max }}})﹩ over which extended Lyα was detected. The orange bands show the spectral ranges used to create the PSF model. Right panel: total flux density, extended Lyα, and 1σ error as a function of the velocity offset relative to Lyα at the quasar’s [C II] redshift. The black arrow indicates the Lyα velocity centroid of the halo.

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