Publication: Statistical properties of diffuse Lyα haloes around star-forming galaxies at z ~ 2
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2016-04-11
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00358711
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Mahidol University
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol.457, No.3 (2016), 2318-2330
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Rieko Momose, Masami Ouchi, Kimihiko Nakajima, Yoshiaki Ono, Takatoshi Shibuya, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Suraphong Yuma, Masao Mori, Masayuki Umemura Statistical properties of diffuse Lyα haloes around star-forming galaxies at z ~ 2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol.457, No.3 (2016), 2318-2330. doi:10.1093/mnras/stw021 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/43607
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Statistical properties of diffuse Lyα haloes around star-forming galaxies at z ~ 2
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© 2016 The Authors. We present statistical properties of diffuse Lyα haloes (LAHs) around high-z star-forming galaxies with large Subaru samples of Lyα emitters (LAEs) at z = 2.2. We make subsamples defined by the physical quantities of LAEs' central Lyα luminosities, ultraviolet (UV) magnitudes, Lyα equivalent widths, and UV slopes, and investigate LAHs' radial surface brightness (SB) profiles and scale lengths rnas a function of these physical quantities. We find that there exist prominent LAHs around LAEs with faint Lyα luminosities, bright UV luminosities, and small Lyα equivalent widths in cumulative radial Lyα SB profiles. We confirm this trend with the anticorrelation between rnand Lyα luminosities (equivalent widths) based on the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient that is ρ = -0.9 (-0.7) corresponding to the 96 per cent (93 per cent) confidence level, although the correlation between rnand UV magnitudes is not clearly found in the rank correlation coefficient. Our results suggest that LAEs with properties similar to typical Lyman-break galaxies (with faint Lyα luminosities and small equivalent widths) possess more prominent LAHs. We investigate scenarios for the major physical origins of LAHs with our results. Because we find relatively small Lyα equivalent widths up to 77 Å in LAHs that include LAEs' central components, these results suggest that the cold stream scenario is not preferred. There remain two possible scenarios of Lyα scattering in circumgalactic medium and satellite galaxies that cannot be tested with our observational data.