I. Oteo
On the nature of Hα emitters at z ∼ 2 from the HiZELS survey: physical properties, Lyα escape fraction and main sequence
Oteo, I.; Sobral, D.; Ivison, R.J.; Smail, I.; Best, P.N.; Cepa, J.; Pérez-García, A.M.
Authors
D. Sobral
R.J. Ivison
Professor Ian Smail ian.smail@durham.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor
P.N. Best
J. Cepa
A.M. Pérez-García
Abstract
We present a detailed multiwavelength study (from rest-frame ultraviolet to far-infrared) of narrow-band selected, star-forming (SF) Hα emitters (HAEs) at z ∼ 2.23 taken from the High-Redshift(Z) Emission Line Survey (HiZELS). We find that HAEs have similar properties and colours derived from spectral energy distributions as sBzK galaxies, and probe a well-defined portion of the SF population at z ∼ 2. This is not true for Lyα emitters (LAEs), which are strongly biased towards blue, less massive galaxies (missing a significant percentage of the SF population). Combining our Hα observations with matched, existing Lyα data, we determine that the Lyα escape fraction (fesc) is low (only ∼4.5 per cent of HAEs show Lyα emission) and decreases with increasing dust attenuation, ultraviolet continuum slope, stellar mass and star formation rate (SFR). This suggests that Lyα preferentially escapes from blue galaxies with low dust attenuation. However, a small population of red and massive LAEs is also present, in agreement with previous works and indicating that dust and Lyα are not mutually exclusive. Using different and completely independent measures of the total SFR, we show that the Hα emission is an excellent tracer of star formation at z ∼ 2 with deviations typically lower than 0.3 dex for individual galaxies. We find that the slope and zero-point of the HAE main sequence at z ∼ 2 strongly depend on the dust-correction method used to recover the SFR, although they are consistent with previous works when similar assumptions are made.
Citation
Oteo, I., Sobral, D., Ivison, R., Smail, I., Best, P., Cepa, J., & Pérez-García, A. (2015). On the nature of Hα emitters at z ∼ 2 from the HiZELS survey: physical properties, Lyα escape fraction and main sequence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(2), 2018-2033. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1284
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 6, 2015 |
Publication Date | Sep 11, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Feb 16, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 22, 2016 |
Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Print ISSN | 0035-8711 |
Electronic ISSN | 1365-2966 |
Publisher | Royal Astronomical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 452 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 2018-2033 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1284 |
Keywords | Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: high-redshift, Galaxies: star formation. |
Related Public URLs | http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015MNRAS.452.2018O |
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