CLARA's view on the escape fraction of Lyman-Alpha photons in high redshift galaxies

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2011-04-29

arxiv.org/abs/1104.5586v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

17 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Using CLARA (Code for Lyman Alpha Radiation Analysis) we constrain the escape fraction of Lyman-Alpha radiation in galaxies in the redshift range 5~5. The LAE Luminosity Function (LF) based on the extended clumpy model reproduces broadly the bright end of the LF derived from observations at z \sim 5 and z \sim 6. At z \sim 7 our model over-predicts the LF by roughly a factor of four, presumably because the effects of the neutral intergalactic medium are not taken into account. The remaining tension between the observed and simulated faint end of the LF, both in the UV-continuum and Lyman-Alpha at redshifts z \sim 5 and z \sim 6 points towards an overabundance of simulated LAEs hosted in haloes of masses 1.0x10^10h-1Msol < Mh < 4.0x10^10h-1Msol. Given the difficulties in explaining the observed overabundance by dust absorption, a probable origin of the mismatch are the high star formation rates in the simulated haloes around the quoted mass range. A more efficient supernova feedback should be able to regulate the star formation process in the shallow potential wells of these haloes.

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