Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-08-21
Astrophys.J.631:L5-L8,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, 3 figures, to appear in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/497135
We present a very deep near-infrared spectroscopic observation of a strong Ly_alpha emitter at z=6.33, SDF J132440.6+273607, which we used to search for HeII 1640. This emission line is expected if the target hosts a significant number of population III stars. Even after 42 ksec of integration with the Subaru/OHS spectrograph, no emission-line features are detected in the JH band, which confirms that SDF J132440.6+273607 is neither an active galactic nucleus nor a low-$z$ emission-line object. We obtained a 2sigma upper-limit of 9.06e-18 ergs/s/cm^2 on the HeII 1640 emission line flux, which corresponds to a luminosity of 4.11e42 ergs/s. This upper-limit on the HeII 1640 luminosity implies that the upper limit on population III star-formation rate is in the range 4.9--41.2 M_sun/yr if population III stars suffer no mass loss, and in the range 1.8--13.2 M_sun/yr if strong mass loss is present. The non-detection of HeII in SDF J132440.6+273607 at z=6.33 may thus disfavor weak feedback models for population III stars.
Ajiki Masaru
Aoki Kentaro
Maiolino Roberto
Marconi Alessandro
Motohara Ken-taro
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