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Measuring the escape fraction, $f_{\rm esc}$, of ionizing, Lyman Continuum (LyC) radiation is key to our understanding of the process of cosmic reionization. In this paper we provide a methodology for recovering the posterior probability…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 R. Bassett , E. V. Ryan-Weber , J. Cooke , U. Mestric , L. J. Prichard , M. Rafelski , I. Iwata , M. Sawicki , S. Gwyn , S. Arnouts

The UltraViolet Imaging of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey Fields (UVCANDELS) survey is a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cycle-26 Treasury Program, allocated in total 164 orbits of primary Wide-Field Camera…

To reionize the early universe, high-energy photons must escape the galaxies that produce them. It has been suggested that stellar feedback drives galactic outflows out of star-forming regions, creating low density channels through which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-13 J. Chisholm , I. Orlitová , D. Schaerer , A. Verhamme , G. Worseck , Y. I. Izotov , T. X. Thuan , N. G. Guseva

Flux estimates for ionizing radiation escaping from star-forming galaxies with characteristic UV luminosities ($L^{*}_{1500(1+z)}$) derived from GALEX and the VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey, are presented as a function of redshift and assumed escape…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-06 Stephan R. McCandliss , John M. O'Meara

The escape fraction of LyC ionizing radiation ($f_{lyc}$) is crucial for understanding reionization, yet difficult to measure at $z \gtrsim 4$. Recently, studies have focused on calibrating indirect indicators of $f_{lyc}$ at $z \sim 0.3$,…

The usefulness of H I Lyman-alpha photons for characterizing star formation in the distant universe is limited by our understanding of the astrophysical processes that regulate their escape from galaxies. These processes can only be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Wofford , C. Leitherer , J. Salzer

Identifying non-contaminated sample of high-redshift galaxies with escaping Lyman continuum (LyC) flux is important for understanding the sources and evolution of cosmic reionization. We present CLAUDS $u$-band photometry of the COSMOS…

We have obtained the first complete ultraviolet (UV) spectrum of a strong Lyman continuum(LyC) emitter at low redshift -- the compact, low-metallicity, star-forming galaxy J1154+2443 -- with a Lyman continuum escape fraction of 46%…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-29 D. Schaerer , Y. Izotov , K. Nakajima , G. Worseck , J. Chisholm , A. Verhamme , T. X. Thuan , S. de Barros

We present the first results from our CAlibrating LYMan-$\alpha$ with H$\alpha$ (CALYMHA) pilot survey at the Isaac Newton Telescope. We measure Ly$\alpha$ emission for 488 H$\alpha$ selected galaxies at $z=2.23$ from HiZELS in the COSMOS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 Jorryt Matthee , David Sobral , Ivàn Oteo , Philip Best , Ian Smail , Huub Röttgering , Ana Paulino-Afonso

We have performed narrow-band imaging observations with the Very Large Telescope, aimed at detecting the Lyman continuum (LC) flux escaping from galaxies at z~3. We do not find any significant LC flux from our sample of two galaxies in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. K. INOUE , I. Iwata , J. -M. Deharveng , V. Buat , D. Burgarella

High-redshift Lyman continuum emitters (LCEs) are crucial for understanding how galaxies ionize the neutral hydrogen in the epoch of reionization. However, detected LCEs at $z > 4$ are quite rare. Here we report an LCE candidate at $z =…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-04 Shuairu Zhu , Zhen-Ya Zheng , Fuyan Bian , Fang-Ting Yuan , Chunyan Jiang , Xiaer Zhang , Ruqiu Lin , Yucheng Guo

Context: Studies of the production and escape of Lyman Continuum from galaxies often rely on array of indirect observational tracers in preselection of candidate leakers. Aims: Here, we investigate how much ionizing radiation might be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-19 T. Emil Rivera-Thorsen , Matthew Hayes , Jens Melinder

We present $U_{336}V_{606}J_{125}H_{160}$ follow-up $HST$ observations of 16 $z\sim3$ candidate LyC emitters in the HS1549+1919 field. With these data, we obtain high spatial-resolution photometric redshifts of all sub-arcsecond components…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-16 Robin E. Mostardi , Alice E. Shapley , Charles C. Steidel , Ryan F. Trainor , Naveen A. Reddy , Brian Siana

We examine deep far-ultraviolet (1600 Angstrom) imaging of the Hubble Deep Field-North (HDFN) and the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) to search for leaking Lyman continuum radiation from starburst galaxies at z~1.3. There are 21 (primarily…

Escaping Lyman continuum photons from galaxies likely reionized the intergalactic medium at redshifts $z\gtrsim6$. However, the Lyman continuum is not directly observable at these redshifts and secondary indicators of Lyman continuum escape…

Recent work has suggested extreme [OIII] emitting star-forming galaxies are important to reionization. Relatedly, [OIII]/[OII] has been put forward as an indirect estimator of the Lyman Continuum (LyC) escape fraction ($f_{esc}$) at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 Rohan P. Naidu , Ben Forrest , Pascal A. Oesch , Kim-Vy H. Tran , Bradford P. Holden

We present the HST WFC3/F275W UV imaging observations of A2218-Flanking, a lensed compact dwarf galaxy at redshift $z\approx2.5$. The stellar mass of A2218-Flanking is $\log(M/M_{\odot}=9.14$ and SFR is 12.5$M_\odot$yr$^{-1}$ after…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-09 Fuyan Bian , Xiaohui Fan , Ian McGreer , Zheng Cai , Linhua Jiang

It is essential to know galactic emissivity and spectrum of Lyman continuum (LyC) in order to understand the cosmic reionization. Here we consider an escape of nebular LyC from galaxies and examine the consequent spectral energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Akio K. Inoue

JWST is uncovering the properties of ever increasing numbers of galaxies at z>6, during the epoch of reionization. Connecting these observed populations to the process of reionization requires understanding how efficiently they produce…

We present an investigation on escape fractions of UV photons from a unique sample of lensed low-mass emission line selected galaxies at z < 3.5 found in the SHARDS Hubble Frontier Fields medium-band survey. We have used this deep imaging…