A Lyman alpha emitter at z = 6.5 found with slitless spectroscopy

Details A Lyman alpha emitter at z = 6.5 found with slitless spectroscopy A Lyman alpha emitter at z = 6.5 found with slitless spectroscopy

2004-06-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406140v2

Astron.Astrophys. 422 (2004) L13-L18

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted as Letter by A&A, 5 pages, 7 figures, one typo corrected

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20040189

We report the discovery of a Lyman alpha emitting galaxy at z = 6.518. The single line was found in the 43 square arcmin VLT/FORS field by slitless spectroscopy limited to the atmospheric window at 9100 A (sampling Lya at 6.4 < z < 6.6). Its counterpart is undetected in a deep I band image and the line has an asymmetric appearance in a deeper follow-up spectrum. There are no plausible line identifications except for Lya with a flux of 1.9x10^-17 erg/s/cm2 and rest frame equivalent width > 80 A. The lower limit to the star formation rate density at z = 6.5 derived from our complete sample is 5x10^-4 M_sol/year/Mpc^3, consistent with measurements in the Subaru Deep Field and Hubble Ultra Deep Field but approximately ten times higher than in the Large Area Lyman Alpha survey. This Lya emitter is among the very small sample of highest redshift galaxies known.

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