We present the results from the search for Lyman Alpha emitters (LAEs) in the proximity of 11 CIV absorption systems at z>4.7 in the spectrum of the QSO J1030+0524, using data from MUSE. We have found multiple LAE candidates close to four CIV systems at zCIV=4.94-5.74 with log10(N CIV[cm−2])>13.5. At z = 5-6, CIV systems with W0(CIV) >0.2 {\AA} seem more likely to have galaxies with Lyα emission within ρ<200 proper kpc (4/5 cases), than the CIV systems with W0(CIV)<0.2 {\AA} (0/6 cases). The impact parameter of LAE-CIV systems with equivalent widths W0(CIV)>0.5 {\AA} is in the range 11 <ρ< 200 proper kpc (pkpc). Furthermore, all candidates are in the luminosity range 0.18-1.15 L*(Lyα,z=5.7) indicating that the environment of CIV systems within 200 pkpc is populated by the faint end of the Lyα luminosity function. We report a 0.28 L*(Lyα) galaxy at a separation of ρ=10 pkpc from a strong CIV absorption (log10(NCIV[cm−2]) = 14.52) at zCIV=5.72419. The prevalence of sub-L*(Lyα) galaxies in the proximity of z >4.9 CIV systems suggest that the absorbing material is rather young, likely ejected in the recent past of the galaxies at these redshifts. The connection between faint LAEs and high-ionization absorption systems reported in this work, is potentially a consequence of the role of low mass galaxies in the early evolution of the circum-galactic and intergalactic media.
@article{arxiv.2001.04453,
title = {Faint LAEs near z>4.7 CIV absorbers revealed by MUSE},
author = {C. Gonzalo Diaz and Emma Ryan-Weber and Wouter Karman and Karina Caputi and Stefania Salvadori and Neil Crighton and Masami Ouchi and Eros Vanzella},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.04453},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
21 pages, 23 figures, 3 tables. Submitted to MNRAS