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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2022

Ionizing radiation from AGNs at z > 3.3 with the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey and the CFHT Large Area U-band Deep Survey (CLAUDS)

Ikuru Iwata
Marcin Sawicki
Akio Inoue
Masayuki Akiyama
Genoveva Micheva
Toshihiro Kawaguchi
  • Fonction : Auteur
Nobunari Kashikawa
  • Fonction : Auteur
Stephen Gwyn

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Abstract We use deep and wide imaging data from the CFHT Large Area U-band Deep Survey (CLAUDS) and the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) to constrain the ionizing radiation (Lyman Continuum; LyC) escape fraction from AGNs at z ∼ 3–4. For 94 AGNs with spectroscopic redshifts at 3.3 < z < 4.0, we use their U-band / i-band flux ratios to estimate LyC transmission of individual AGNs. The distribution of their LyC transmission shows values lower than the range of LyC transmission values for IGM of the same redshift range, which suggests that LyC escape fraction of AGNs at z > 3.3 is considerably lower than unity in most cases. We do not find any trend in LyC transmission values depending on their UV luminosities. Based on the photometry of stacked images we find the average flux ratio of LyC and non-ionizing UV photons escaping from the objects (fLyC/fUV)out = 0.182 ± 0.043 for AGNs at 3.3 < z < 3.6, which corresponds to LyC escape fraction fesc = 0.303 ± 0.072 if we assume a fiducial intrinsic SED of AGN. Based on the estimated LyC escape fraction and the UV luminosity function of AGNs, we argue that UV-selected AGNs’ contribution to the LyC emissivity at the epoch is minor, although the size of their contribution largely depends on the shape of the UV luminosity function.
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hal-03426640 , version 1 (20-04-2023)

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Ikuru Iwata, Marcin Sawicki, Akio Inoue, Masayuki Akiyama, Genoveva Micheva, et al.. Ionizing radiation from AGNs at z > 3.3 with the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey and the CFHT Large Area U-band Deep Survey (CLAUDS). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022, 509, pp.1820-1836. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stab2742⟩. ⟨hal-03426640⟩
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