First Results from the Large Area Lyman Alpha Survey

Details First Results from the Large Area Lyman Alpha Survey First Results from the Large Area Lyman Alpha Survey

2000-03-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0003465v1

Astrophysical Journal Letters, v. 545, p. L85 (2000)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 2 figures (3 .ps files), uses AASTeX 4. Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/317874

We report on a new survey for z=4.5 Lyman alpha sources, the Large Area Lyman Alpha (LALA) survey. Our survey achieves an unprecedented combination of volume and sensitivity by using narrow-band filters on the new 8192x8192 pixel CCD Mosaic Camera at the 4 meter Mayall telescope of Kitt Peak National Observatory. Well-detected sources with flux and equivalent width matching known high redshift Lyman alpha galaxies (i.e., observed equivalent width above 80 Angstroms and line+continuum flux between 2.6e-17 and 5.2e-17 erg/cm^2/sec in an 80 Angstrom filter) have an observed surface density corresponding to 11000 +- 700 per square degree per unit redshift at z=4.5. Spatial variation in this surface density is apparent on comparison between counts in 6561 and 6730 Angstrom filters. Early spectroscopic followup results from the Keck telescope included three sources meeting our criteria for good Lyman alpha candidates. Of these, one is confirmed as a z=4.52 source, while another remains consistent with either z=4.55 or z=0.81. We infer that 30 to 50% of our good candidates are bona fide Lyman alpha emitters, implying a net density of about 4000 Lyman alpha galaxies per square degree per unit redshift.

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