Image Details

Choose export citation format:

Confirmation and Refutation of Lyman Continuum Leakers at z ∼ 3 with JWST NIRSpec IFU

  • Authors: Shengzhe Wang, Xin Wang, Hang Zhou, Yiming Yang, Zhiyuan Ji, Yuxuan Pang, Chao-Wei Tsai, Akio K. Inoue, Mengtao Tang, Themiya Nanayakkara, Karl Glazebrook, Hu Zhan, Pinjian Chen

Shengzhe Wang et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 6.

Forward-model fitting results for LACES104037-LyC. Observational constraints are limited to the Hα and [O III] emission lines and the LyC-band emission, obtained with subkiloparsec-resolution observations in this LyC-leaking region. The spectral ranges affected by instrumental artifacts are indicated by dashed lines, which show substantial differences before and after the refined data reduction (see Appendix A, Figure 7). We show model spectra at different stellar population ages, where fesc is adjusted, and the total flux is normalized to the integrated IFU spectrum to reproduce the observed optical spectrum. The LyC-band photometry breaks the degeneracy between fesc and stellar age present in the emission-line EW parameter space (the lower panel of Figure 5), and only a model with age =5 Myr and fesc = 0.99 provides a simultaneous match to all observational constraints.

Other Images in This Article
Copyright and Terms & Conditions

Additional terms of reuse