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LCEz4-M1: A Lyman Continuum Emitter Candidate at z = 4.444 in the MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field

  • Authors: Shuairu Zhu, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Fuyan Bian, Fang-Ting Yuan, Chunyan Jiang, Xiaer Zhang, Ruqiu Lin, Yucheng Guo

Shuairu Zhu et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

MUSE spectrum and multiband cutouts of LCEz4-M1. (a) The full MUSE spectrum. No emission lines other than Lyα are detected. (b) The Lyα emission line in the MUSE spectrum. (c) The HST ACS/WFC F606W image, whose bandpass covers the Lyα line. (d) The Lyα narrowband image extracted from the MUSE data cube. (e) The HST ACS/WFC F435W cutout tracing the LyC emission. (f) The VLT/MUSE LyC narrowband image, smoothed with an FWHM of 2 pixels for display. (g) The JWST/NIRCam F277W cutout, probing the rest-frame optical continuum and the [O III] emission line. In panels (c) and (d), the size of each cutout is 2 × 2, and is 5 × 5 in panels (e)–(g). The red dotted circles (r = 0﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{\unicode{x02033}}﹩35) mark LCEz4-M1, the white dotted circles (r = 0﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{\unicode{x02033}}﹩35) mark nearby foreground sources, and the small green circle (r = 0﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{\unicode{x02033}}﹩15) in panel (g) marks the companion candidate.

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