The BOSS Emission-Line Lens Survey V. Morphology and Substructure of Lensed Lyman-$\alpha$ Emitters at redshift $z\approx 2.5$ in the BELLS GALLERY

Abstract

We present a morphological study of the 17 lensed Lyman-$\alpha$ emitter (LAE) galaxies of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Emission-Line Lens Survey (BELLS) for the GALaxy-Ly$\alpha$ 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 ($HST$) to achieve a physical resolution of $\sim$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 Lyman-$\alpha$ emission, the LAEs that we study here are likely to be directly comparable to those selected in wide-field narrow-band LAE surveys, in contrast with the lensed LAEs identified in cluster lensing fields. We find an LAE clumpiness fraction of approximately 88%, significantly higher than found in previous (non-lensing) studies. We find a well-resolved characteristic clump half-light radii of $\sim$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.

12 pages, 5 figures

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