Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-08-31
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Accepted to ApJ
Scientific paper
We report a search for z~6.96 Ly-alpha emitters (LAEs) using a Narrow-Band filter, centered at 9680 Angstroms, with the IMACS instrument on the Magellan telescope at Las Campanas Observatory. We obtain a sample of 6 Ly-alpha emitter candidates of luminosity ~10^42 erg/s in a total area of 465 square arcmin corresponding to a comoving volume of ~ 72000 Mpc^3. From this result, we derive a Ly-alpha luminosity function (LF) at z~6.96 and compare our sample with the only z~6.96 Ly-alpha emitter spectroscopically confirmed to date (Iye et al. 2006). We find no evolution between the z=5.7 and z~7 Ly-alpha luminosity functions, if a majority of our candidates are confirmed. Spectroscopic confirmation for this sample will enable more robust conclusions.
Hibon Pascale
Malhotra Sangeeta
Rhoads James E.
Willott Christopher
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