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Connecting Lyα and Ionizing Photon Escape in the Sunburst Arc
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Astronomy. Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics (OKC).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9204-3256
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Number of Authors: 202024 (English)In: Astrophysical Journal, ISSN 0004-637X, E-ISSN 1538-4357, Vol. 977, no 2, article id 234Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We investigate the Lyα and Lyman continuum (LyC) properties of the Sunburst Arc, a z = 2.37 gravitationally lensed galaxy with a multiply imaged, compact region leaking LyC and a triple-peaked Lyα profile indicating direct Lyα escape. Non-LyC-leaking regions show a redshifted Lyα peak, a redshifted and central Lyα peak, or a triple-peaked Lyα profile. We measure the properties of the Lyα profile from different regions of the galaxy using R ∼ 5000 Magellan/Magellan Echellette spectra. We compare the Lyα spectral properties to LyC and narrowband Lyα maps from Hubble Space Telescope imaging to explore the subgalactic Lyα−LyC connection. We find strong correlations (Pearson correlation coefficient r > 0.6) between the LyC escape fraction and Lyα (1) peak separation vsep, (2) ratio of the minimum flux density between the redshifted and blueshifted Lyα peaks to continuum flux density fmin/fcont, and (3) equivalent width. We favor a complex H i geometry to explain the Lyα profiles from non-LyC-leaking regions and suggest two H i geometries that could diffuse and/or rescatter the central Lyα peak from the LyC-leaking region into our sight line across transverse distances of several hundred parsecs. Our results emphasize the complexity of Lyα radiative transfer and its sensitivity to the anisotropies of H i gas on subgalactic scales. Large differences in the physical scales on which we observe spatially variable direct-escape Lyα, blueshifted Lyα, and escaping LyC photons in the Sunburst Arc underscore the importance of resolving the physical scales that govern Lyα and LyC escape.

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2024. Vol. 977, no 2, article id 234
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Starburst galaxies, Lyman-alpha galaxies, Radiative transfer, Strong gravitational lensing
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Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-240690DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad9247ISI: 001380559300001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85212544309OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-240690DiVA, id: diva2:1943988
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