• DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/808/2/139
Corpus ID: 18471887

Evidence for PopIII-like Stellar Populations in the Most Luminous Lyman-α Emitters at the Epoch of Reionization: Spectroscopic Confirmation

@article{Sobral2015EvidenceFP,
  title={Evidence for PopIII-like Stellar Populations in the Most Luminous Lyman-$\alpha$ Emitters at the Epoch of Reionization: Spectroscopic Confirmation},
  author={D. Sobral and J. Matthee and B. Darvish and D. Schaerer and B. Mobasher and H. Rottgering and S. Santos and S. Hemmati},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2015},
  volume={808},
  pages={139}
}

• D. Sobral, J. Matthee, +5 authors S. Hemmati
• Published 2015
• Physics
• The Astrophysical Journal

Faint Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) emitters become increasingly rarer towards the re-ionisation epoch (z~6-7). However, observations from a very large (~5deg$^2$) Ly$\alpha$ survey at z=6.6 (Matthee et al. 2015) show that this is not the case for the most luminous emitters. Here we present follow-up observations of the two most luminous z~6.6 Ly$\alpha$ candidates in the COSMOS field: `MASOSA' and `CR7'. We used X-SHOOTER, SINFONI and FORS2 (VLT), and DEIMOS (Keck), to confirm both candidates… Expand