{"external_id":{"arxiv":["2305.07044"]},"publisher":"Oxford University Press","oa":1,"file":[{"creator":"dernst","file_size":4521738,"success":1,"date_created":"2024-01-23T12:30:45Z","file_id":"14879","access_level":"open_access","checksum":"9d02df4035c4951cf63dee0db1e462e9","content_type":"application/pdf","date_updated":"2024-01-23T12:30:45Z","relation":"main_file","file_name":"2024_MNAstronomSoc_Kramarenko.pdf"}],"file_date_updated":"2024-01-23T12:30:45Z","date_created":"2024-01-22T08:22:17Z","month":"02","department":[{"_id":"GradSch"},{"_id":"JoMa"}],"issue":"4","author":[{"id":"9a9394cb-3200-11ee-973b-f5ba2a8b16e4","first_name":"Ivan","last_name":"Kramarenko","full_name":"Kramarenko, Ivan"},{"full_name":"Kerutt, J","last_name":"Kerutt","first_name":"J"},{"first_name":"A","last_name":"Verhamme","full_name":"Verhamme, A"},{"last_name":"Oesch","full_name":"Oesch, P A","first_name":"P A"},{"last_name":"Barrufet","full_name":"Barrufet, L","first_name":"L"},{"first_name":"Jorryt J","orcid":"0000-0003-2871-127X","last_name":"Matthee","full_name":"Matthee, Jorryt J","id":"7439a258-f3c0-11ec-9501-9df22fe06720"},{"first_name":"H","last_name":"Kusakabe","full_name":"Kusakabe, H"},{"full_name":"Goovaerts, I","last_name":"Goovaerts","first_name":"I"},{"last_name":"Thai","full_name":"Thai, T T","first_name":"T T"}],"year":"2024","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"article_type":"original","day":"01","tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","image":"/images/cc_by.png","short":"CC BY (4.0)"},"publication_identifier":{"issn":["0035-8711"],"eissn":["1365-2966"]},"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"The physical conditions giving rise to high escape fractions of ionizing radiation (LyC fesc) in star-forming galaxies – most likely protagonists of cosmic reionization – are not yet fully understood. Using the VLT/MUSE observations of ∼1400 Ly α emitters at 2.9 &amp;lt; z &amp;lt; 6.7, we compare stacked rest-frame UV spectra of candidates for LyC leakers and non-leakers selected based on their Ly α profiles. We find that the stacks of potential LyC leakers, i.e. galaxies with narrow, symmetric Ly α profiles with small peak separation, generally show (i) strong nebular O iii]λ1666, [Si iii]λ1883, and [C iii]λ1907 +C iii]λ1909 emission, indicating a high-ionization state of the interstellar medium (ISM); (ii) high equivalent widths of He iiλ1640 (∼1 − 3 Å), suggesting the presence of hard ionizing radiation fields; (iii) Si ii*λ1533 emission, revealing substantial amounts of neutral hydrogen off the line of sight; (iv) high C ivλλ1548,1550 to [C iii]λ1907 +C iii]λ1909 ratios (C iv/C iii] ≳0.75) , signalling the presence of low column density channels in the ISM. In contrast, the stacks with broad, asymmetric Ly α profiles with large peak separation show weak nebular emission lines, low He iiλ1640 equivalent widths (≲1 Å), and low C iv/C iii] (≲0.25), implying low-ionization states and high-neutral hydrogen column densities. Our results suggest that C iv/C iii] might be sensitive to the physical conditions that govern LyC photon escape, providing a promising tool for identification of ionizing sources among star-forming galaxies in the epoch of reionization."}],"oa_version":"Published Version","publication":"Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society","citation":{"ista":"Kramarenko I, Kerutt J, Verhamme A, Oesch PA, Barrufet L, Matthee JJ, Kusakabe H, Goovaerts I, Thai TT. 2024. Linking UV spectral properties of MUSE Ly α emitters at <i>z</i> ≳ 3 to Lyman continuum escape. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(4), 9853–9871.","ama":"Kramarenko I, Kerutt J, Verhamme A, et al. Linking UV spectral properties of MUSE Ly α emitters at <i>z</i> ≳ 3 to Lyman continuum escape. <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</i>. 2024;527(4):9853-9871. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3853\">10.1093/mnras/stad3853</a>","short":"I. Kramarenko, J. Kerutt, A. Verhamme, P.A. Oesch, L. Barrufet, J.J. Matthee, H. Kusakabe, I. Goovaerts, T.T. Thai, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 527 (2024) 9853–9871.","chicago":"Kramarenko, Ivan, J Kerutt, A Verhamme, P A Oesch, L Barrufet, Jorryt J Matthee, H Kusakabe, I Goovaerts, and T T Thai. “Linking UV Spectral Properties of MUSE Ly α Emitters at <i>z</i> ≳ 3 to Lyman Continuum Escape.” <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</i>. Oxford University Press, 2024. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3853\">https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3853</a>.","apa":"Kramarenko, I., Kerutt, J., Verhamme, A., Oesch, P. A., Barrufet, L., Matthee, J. J., … Thai, T. T. (2024). Linking UV spectral properties of MUSE Ly α emitters at <i>z</i> ≳ 3 to Lyman continuum escape. <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</i>. Oxford University Press. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3853\">https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3853</a>","ieee":"I. Kramarenko <i>et al.</i>, “Linking UV spectral properties of MUSE Ly α emitters at <i>z</i> ≳ 3 to Lyman continuum escape,” <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</i>, vol. 527, no. 4. Oxford University Press, pp. 9853–9871, 2024.","mla":"Kramarenko, Ivan, et al. “Linking UV Spectral Properties of MUSE Ly α Emitters at <i>z</i> ≳ 3 to Lyman Continuum Escape.” <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</i>, vol. 527, no. 4, Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 9853–71, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3853\">10.1093/mnras/stad3853</a>."},"intvolume":"       527","has_accepted_license":"1","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","keyword":["Space and Planetary Science","Astronomy and Astrophysics"],"date_updated":"2024-01-23T12:33:50Z","ddc":["520"],"status":"public","publication_status":"published","page":"9853-9871","type":"journal_article","volume":527,"acknowledgement":"We thank the anonymous referee for the constructive feedback that helped to improve the manuscript. We thank Michael Maseda, Daniel Schaerer, Charlotte Simmonds, and Rashmi Gottumukkala for useful comments and productive discussions. We also thank the organizers and participants of the 24th MUSE Science Busy Week in Leiden. IGK acknowledges an Excellence Master Fellowship granted by the Faculty of Science of the University of Geneva. This work has received funding from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) under contract number MB22.00072, as well as from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) through project grant number 200020_207349 and SNSF Professorship grant number 190079. The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation under grant number 140. This paper is based on observations collected at the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere under ESO programmes 094.A-0289(B), 095.A-0010(A), 096.A-0045(A), 096.A-0045(B), 094.A-0205, 095.A-0240, 096.A-0090, 097.A-0160, and 098.A-0017. We made extensive use of several open-source software packages and we are thankful to the respective authors for sharing their work: NUMPY (Harris et al. 2020), ASTROPY (Astropy Collaboration 2022), MATPLOTLIB (Hunter 2007), IPYTHON (Perez & Granger 2007), and TOPCAT (Taylor 2005).","title":"Linking UV spectral properties of MUSE Ly α emitters at <i>z</i> ≳ 3 to Lyman continuum escape","quality_controlled":"1","article_processing_charge":"Yes (in subscription journal)","date_published":"2024-02-01T00:00:00Z","doi":"10.1093/mnras/stad3853","_id":"14852"}