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New insight on the nature of cosmic reionizers from the CEERS survey

Mascia, S.
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Pentericci, L.
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Calabro, A.
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April 30, 2024
Astronomy & Astrophysics

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) began when galaxies grew in abundance and luminosity, so their escaping Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation started ionizing the surrounding neutral intergalactic medium (IGM). Despite significant recent progress, the nature and role of cosmic reionizers are still unclear: in order to define them, it would be necessary to directly measure their LyC escape fraction ( f(esc)). However, this is impossible during the EoR due to the opacity of the IGM. Consequently, many e fforts at low and intermediate redshift have been made to determine measurable indirect indicators in high-redshift galaxies so that their f(esc) can be predicted. This work presents the analysis of the indirect indicators of 62 spectroscopically confirmed star-forming galaxies at 6 <= z <= 9 from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey, combined with 12 sources with public data from other JWST-ERS campaigns. From the NIRCam and NIRSpec observations, we measured their physical and spectroscopic properties. We discovered that on average 6 < z < 9 star-forming galaxies are compact in the rest-frame UV (r(e) similar to 0:4 kpc), are blue sources (UV-beta slope similar to-2:17), and have a predicted fesc of about 0.13. A comparison of our results to models and predictions as well as an estimation of the ionizing budget suggests that low-mass galaxies with UV magnitudes fainter than M-1500 = -18 that we currently do not characterize with JWST observations probably played a key role in the process of reionization.

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research article
DOI
10.1051/0004-6361/202347884
Web of Science ID

WOS:001231008100012

Author(s)
Mascia, S.
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Pentericci, L.
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Calabro, A.
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Santini, P.
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Napolitano, L.
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Haro, P. Arrabal
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Castellano, M.
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Dickinson, M.
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Ocvirk, P.
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Lewis, J. S. W.
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Date Issued

2024-04-30

Publisher

Edp Sciences S A

Published in
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Volume

685

Start page

A3

Subjects

Physical Sciences

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Galaxies: Evolution

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Galaxies: Formation

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Galaxies: High-Redshift

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Intergalactic Medium

Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
GALSPEC  
FunderGrant Number

NASA

NAS 5-03127

INAF

PRIN 2022 MUR project - European Union -Next Generation EU

2022CB3PJ3

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June 19, 2024
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/208632
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