A photometric survey for Lyalpha-HeII dual emitters: Searching for Population III stars in high-redshift galaxies

Details A photometric survey for Lyalpha-HeII dual emitters: Searching for Population III stars in high-redshift galaxies A photometric survey for Lyalpha-HeII dual emitters: Searching for Population III stars in high-redshift galaxies

2008-02-28

arxiv.org/abs/0802.4123v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

24 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/587888

We present a new photometric search for high-z galaxies hosting Population III (PopIII) stars based on deep intermediate-band imaging observations obtained in the Subaru Deep Field (SDF), by using Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope. By combining our new data with the existing broad-band and narrow-band data, we searched for galaxies which emit strongly both in Ly_alpha and in HeII 1640 (``dual emitters'') that are promising candidates for PopIII-hosting galaxies, at 3.93 2 Msun/yr was found by our photometric search in 4.03 x 10^5 Mpc^3 in the SDF. This result disfavors low feedback models for PopIII star clusters, and implies an upper-limit of the PopIII SFR density of SFRD_PopIII < 5 x 10^-6 Msun/yr/Mpc^3. This new selection method to search for PopIII-hosting galaxies should be useful in future narrow-band surveys to achieve the first observational detection of PopIII-hosting galaxies at high redshifts.

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