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Cornachione, M. A.; Bolton, Adam S.; Shu, Yiping; Zheng, Zheng; Montero-Dorta, Antonio D.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Oguri, Masamune; Kochanek, Christopher S.; Mao, Shude; Pèrez-Fournon, I.; Marques-Chaves, R.; Mènard, Brice
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 853, Issue 2, article id. 148, 11 pp. (2018).
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We present a morphological study of the 17 lensed Lyα emitter
(LAE) galaxies of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
Emission-Line Lens Survey (BELLS) for the GALaxy-Lyα EmitteR
sYstems (BELLS GALLERY) sample. This analysis combines the magnification
effect of strong galaxy–galaxy lensing with the high resolution of
the Hubble Space Telescope to achieve a physical resolution of ∼80
pc for this 2 < z < 3 LAE sample, allowing a detailed
characterization of the LAE rest-frame ultraviolet continuum surface
brightness profiles and substructure. We use lens-model reconstructions
of the LAEs to identify and model individual clumps, which we
subsequently use to constrain the parameters of a generative statistical
model of the LAE population. Since the BELLS GALLERY sample is selected
primarily on the basis of Lyα emission, the LAEs that we study
here are likely to be directly comparable to those selected in
wide-field, narrowband LAE surveys, in contrast with the lensed LAEs
identified in cluster-lensing fields. We find an LAE clumpiness fraction
of approximately 88%, which is significantly higher than that found in
previous (non-lensing) studies. We find a well-resolved characteristic
clump half-light radii of ∼350 pc, a scale comparable to the largest
H II regions seen in the local universe. This statistical
characterization of LAE surface-brightness profiles will be incorporated
into future lensing analyses using the BELLS GALLERY sample to constrain
the incidence of dark-matter substructure in the foreground lensing
galaxies.
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