SILVERRUSH. V. Census of Lyα, [O iii] λ5007, Hα, and [C ii] 158 μm Line Emission with ∼1000 LAEs at z = 4.9–7.0 Revealed with Subaru/HSC
- Harikane, Yuichi;
- Ouchi, Masami;
- Shibuya, Takatoshi;
- Kojima, Takashi;
- Zhang, Haibin;
- Itoh, Ryohei;
- Ono, Yoshiaki;
- Higuchi, Ryo;
- Inoue, Akio K;
- Chevallard, Jacopo;
- Capak, Peter L;
- Nagao, Tohru;
- Onodera, Masato;
- Faisst, Andreas L;
- Martin, Crystal L;
- Rauch, Michael;
- Bruzual, Gustavo A;
- Charlot, Stephane;
- Davidzon, Iary;
- Fujimoto, Seiji;
- Hilmi, Miftahul;
- Ilbert, Olivier;
- Lee, Chien-Hsiu;
- Matsuoka, Yoshiki;
- Silverman, John D;
- Toft, Sune
- et al.
Abstract
We investigate Lyα, [O iii] λ5007, Hα, and [C ii] 158 μm emission from 1124 galaxies at z = 4.9-7.0. Our sample is composed of 1092 Lyα emitters (LAEs) at z = 4.9, 5.7, 6.6, and 7.0 identified by Subaru/Hyper-Suprime-Cam (HSC) narrowband surveys covered by Spitzer Large Area Survey with Hyper-Suprime-Cam (SPLASH) and 34 galaxies at z = 5.148-7.508 with deep ALMA [C ii] 158 μm data in the literature. Fluxes of strong rest-frame optical lines of [O iii] and Hα (Hβ) are constrained by significant excesses found in the SPLASH 3.6 and 4.5 μm photometry. At z = 4.9, we find that the rest-frame Hα equivalent width and the Lyα escape fraction f Lyα positively correlate with the rest-frame Lyα equivalent width fLyα positively correlate with the rest-frame Lyα equivalent width EWLyα0 . The correlation is similarly found at z ∼ 0-2, suggesting no evolution of the correlation over z ≃ 0-5. The typical ionizing photon production efficiency of LAEs is log(ξ ion/[Hz erg-1]) ≃ 25.5, significantly (60%-100%) higher than those of LBGs at a given UV magnitude. At z = 5.7-7.0, there exists an interesting turnover trend that the [O iii]/Hα flux ratio increases in and then decreases out to . We also identify an anticorrelation between a ratio of [C ii] luminosity to star formation rate (L [C ii]/SFR) and at the >99% confidence level.. We carefully investigate physical origins of the correlations with stellar-synthesis and photoionization models and find that a simple anticorrelation between and metallicity explains self-consistently all of the correlations of Lyα, Hα, [O iii]/Hα, and [C ii] identified in our study, indicating detections of metal-poor (∼0.03 Z o) galaxies with .
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