The low-redshift Lyman continuum survey. I. New, diverse local Lyman continuum emitters

SR Flury, AE Jaskot, HC Ferguson… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The origins of Lyman continuum (LyC) photons responsible for the reionization of the
universe are as of yet unknown and highly contested. Detecting LyC photons from the Epoch …

Rapid reionization by the oligarchs: the case for massive, UV-bright, star-forming galaxies with high escape fractions

RP Naidu, S Tacchella, CA Mason, S Bose… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The protagonists of the last great phase transition of the universe—cosmic reionization—
remain elusive. Faint star-forming galaxies are leading candidates because they are found …

The ionizing photon production efficiency at z ∼ 6 for Lyman-alpha emitters using JEMS and MUSE

C Simmonds, S Tacchella, M Maseda… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We study the ionizing photon production efficiency at the end of the Epoch of Reionization
(z∼ 5.4− 6.6) for a sample of 30 Ly α emitters. This is a crucial quantity to infer the ionizing …

The synchrony of production and escape: half the bright Lyα emitters at z ≈ 2 have Lyman continuum escape fractions ≈50

RP Naidu, J Matthee, PA Oesch… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The ionizing photon escape fraction [Lyman continuum (LyC) f esc] of star-forming galaxies
is the single greatest unknown in the reionization budget. Stochastic sightline effects prohibit …

Low-mass bursty galaxies in JADES efficiently produce ionizing photons and could represent the main drivers of reionization

C Simmonds, S Tacchella, K Hainline… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We use deep imaging from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) to
study the evolution of the ionizing photon production efficiency, ξion. We estimate ξion for a …

Low-redshift Lyman continuum leaking galaxies with high [O iii]/[O ii] ratios

YI Izotov, G Worseck, D Schaerer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present observations with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) onboard the Hubble
Space Telescope of five star-forming galaxies at redshifts in the range 0.2993–0.4317 and …

An uncontaminated measurement of the escaping Lyman continuum at z ∼ 3

AJ Pahl, A Shapley, CC Steidel, Y Chen… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Observations of reionization-era analogues at z∼ 3 are a powerful tool for constraining
reionization. Rest-ultraviolet observations are particularly useful, in which both direct and …

J1154+ 2443: a low-redshift compact star-forming galaxy with a 46 per cent leakage of Lyman continuum photons

YI Izotov, D Schaerer, G Worseck… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We report the detection of the Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation of the compact star-forming
galaxy (SFG) J1154+ 2443 observed with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) onboard …

The star formation burstiness and ionizing efficiency of low-mass galaxies

H Atek, LJ Furtak, P Oesch… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the burstiness of star formation and the ionizing efficiency of a large sample
of galaxies at 0.7< z< 1.5 using HST grism spectroscopy and deep ultraviolet (UV) imaging …

The Lyman continuum escape survey: ionizing radiation from [O III]-strong sources at a redshift of 3.1

TJ Fletcher, M Tang, BE Robertson… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results from the LymAn Continuum Escape Survey (LACES), a Hubble Space
Telescope (HST) program designed to characterize the ionizing radiation emerging from a …