Constraints on Hyperluminous QSO Lifetimes via Fluorescent Lyα Emitters at Z ≃ 2.7
- Creators
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Trainor, Ryan
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Steidel, Charles C.
Abstract
We present observations of a population of Lyα emitters (LAEs) exhibiting fluorescent emission via the reprocessing of ionizing radiation from nearby hyperluminous QSOs. These LAEs are part of a survey at redshifts 2.5 < z < 2.9 combining narrow-band photometric selection and spectroscopic follow-up to characterize the emission mechanisms, physical properties, and three-dimensional locations of the emitters with respect to their nearby hyperluminous QSOs. These data allow us to probe the radiation field, and thus the radiative history, of the QSOs, and we determine that most of the eight QSOs in our sample have been active and of comparable luminosity for a time 1 Myr ≲ t_Q ≲ 20 Myr. Furthermore, we find that the ionizing QSO emission must have an opening angle θ ~ 30° or larger relative to the line of sight.
Additional Information
© 2013. The American Astronomical Society. Received 19 July 2013, accepted for publication 6 August 2013. Published 29 August 2013. We are indebted to the staff of the W.M. Keck Observatory who keep the instruments and telescopes running effectively. We also extend thanks to those of Hawaiian ancestry on whose sacred mountain we are privileged to be guests. This work has been supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation through grant AST-0908805.Attached Files
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- 41974
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20131017-133655029
- NSF
- AST-0908805
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2013-10-21Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-10Created from EPrint's last_modified field