X-ray nondetection of the Lyman-alpha Emitters at z ~ 4.5

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2004-04-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404611v1

Astrophys.J.608:L21-L24,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, including 4 figures, ApJ letter accepted

Scientific paper

10.1086/422311

The Lyman-alpha emitters found at z ~ 4.5 by the Large Area Lyman Alpha (LALA) survey have high equivalent widths in the Lyman-alpha line, which can be produced by either narrow-lined active galactic nuclei (AGNs) or by stellar populations with a very high proportion of young, massive stars. To investigate the AGN scenario, we obtained two deep Chandra exposures to study the X-ray nature of the Lyman-alpha emitters. The 172 ks deep Chandra image on the LALA Bootes field was presented in a previous paper (Malhotra et al. 2003), and in this paper we present a new Chandra deep exposure (174 ks) on the LALA Cetus field, which doubled our sample of X-ray imaged Lyman-alpha sources, and imaged the brightest source among our Lyman-alpha emitters. None of the 101 Lyman-alpha sources covered by two Chandra exposures was detected individually in X-ray, with a 3 sigma limiting X-ray flux of F_{0.5-10.0 keV} < 3.3 x 10^{-16} ergs/cm^2/s for on-axis targets. The sources remain undetectable in the stacked image, implying a 3 sigma limit to the average luminosity of L_{2-8keV} < 2.8 x 10^{42} ergs/s. The resulting X-ray to Lyman-alpha ratio is > 21 times lower than the ratios for known high redshift type-II quasars. Together with optical spectra obtained at Keck, we conclude that no evidence of AGN activity was found among our Lyman-alpha emitters at z ~ 4.5.

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