Low-redshift Lyman continuum leaking galaxies with high [O iii]/[O ii] ratios
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YI Izotov, G Worseck, D Schaerer, NG Guseva, TX Thuan, Fricke, A Verhamme, I Orlitová
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018•academic.oup.comWe present observations with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) onboard the Hubble
Space Telescope of five star-forming galaxies at redshifts in the range 0.2993–0.4317 and
with high emission-line flux ratios O32=[O iii]λ 5007/[O ii] λ 3727∼ 8–27 aiming to detect the
Lyman continuum (LyC) emission. We detect LyC emission in all galaxies with the escape
fractions f esc (LyC) in a range of 2–72 per cent. A narrow Lyα emission line with two peaks
in four galaxies and with three peaks in one object is seen in medium-resolution COS …
Space Telescope of five star-forming galaxies at redshifts in the range 0.2993–0.4317 and
with high emission-line flux ratios O32=[O iii]
Lyman continuum (LyC) emission. We detect LyC emission in all galaxies with the escape
fractions f esc (LyC) in a range of 2–72 per cent. A narrow Ly
in four galaxies and with three peaks in one object is seen in medium-resolution COS …
Abstract
We present observations with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope of five star-forming galaxies at redshifts in the range 0.2993–0.4317 and with high emission-line flux ratios O32 = [O iii] λ 5007/[O ii] λ 3727 ∼ 8–27 aiming to detect the Lyman continuum (LyC) emission. We detect LyC emission in all galaxies with the escape fractions fesc(LyC) in a range of 2–72 per cent. A narrow Lyα emission line with two peaks in four galaxies and with three peaks in one object is seen in medium-resolution COS spectra with a velocity separation between the peaks Vsep varying from ∼153 to ∼345 km s−1. We find a general increase of the LyC escape fraction with increasing O32 and decreasing stellar mass M⋆, but with a large scatter of fesc(LyC). A tight anticorrelation is found between fesc(LyC) and Vsep making Vsep a good parameter for the indirect determination of the LyC escape fraction. We argue that one possible source driving the escape of ionizing radiation is stellar winds and radiation from hot massive stars.
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