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Two Lensed Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies at z~5

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2010-10-15 v3

Abstract

We present observations of two strongly lensed z5z\sim5 Lyman-α\alpha Emitting (LAE) galaxies that were discovered in the Sloan Giant Arcs Survey (SGAS). We identify the two sources as SGAS J091541+382655, at z=5.200z=5.200, and SGAS J134331+415455 at z=4.994z=4.994. We measure their AB magnitudes at (i,z)=(23.34±0.09,23.29±0.13(i,z)=(23.34\pm0.09,23.29\pm0.13) mags and (i,z)=(23.78±0.18,24.240.16+0.18(i,z)=(23.78\pm0.18,24.24^{+0.18}_{-0.16}) mags, and the rest-frame equivalent widths of the Lyman-α\alpha emission at 25.3±4.125.3\pm4.1\AA~and 135.6±20.3135.6\pm20.3\AA~for SGAS J091541+382655 and SGAS J134331+415455, respectively. Each source is strongly lensed by a massive galaxy cluster in the foreground, and the magnifications due to gravitational lensing are recovered from strong lens modeling of the foreground lensing potentials. We use the magnification to calculate the intrinsic, unlensed Lyman-α\alpha and UV continuum luminosities for both sources, as well as the implied star formation rates (SFR). We find SGAS J091541+382655 and SGAS J134341+415455 to be galaxies with (LLyα_{Ly-\alpha}, LUV)(0.6_{UV})\leq(0.6LLyα,2_{Ly-\alpha}^{*}, 2LUV_{UV}^{*}) and (LLyα_{Ly-\alpha}, LUV)=(0.5_{UV})=(0.5LLyα,0.9_{Ly-\alpha}^{*}, 0.9LUV_{UV}^{*}), respectively. Comparison of the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of both sources against stellar population models produces estimates of the mass in young stars in each galaxy: we report an upper limit of Mstars7.92.5+3.7×107_{stars} \leq 7.9^{+3.7}_{-2.5} \times 10^{7} M\sunh0.71_{\sun} h_{0.7}^{-1} for SGAS J091531+382655, and a range of viable masses for SGAS J134331+415455 of 2×1082\times10^{8} M\sunh0.71<_{\sun} h_{0.7}^{-1} < Mstars<6×109_{stars} < 6\times10^{9} M\sunh0.71_{\sun} h_{0.7}^{-1}.

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@article{arxiv.1003.0039,
  title  = {Two Lensed Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies at z~5},
  author = {Matthew B. Bayliss and Eva Wuyts and Keren Sharon and Michael D. Gladders and Joseph F. Hennawi and Benjamin P. Koester and Hakon Dahle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.0039},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

10 pages, 8 figures, emulate apj format, Accepted to ApJ