CHORUS. III. Photometric and Spectroscopic Properties of Ly$\alpha$ Blobs at $z=4.9-7.0$

Abstract

We report the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) discovery of two Ly$\alpha$ blobs (LABs), dubbed z70-1 and z49-1 at $z=6.965$ and $z=4.888$ respectively, that are Ly$\alpha$ emitters with a bright ($\log L_{\mathrm{Ly}\alpha }/[\mathrm{erg}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}]>43.4$) and spatially-extended Ly$\alpha$ emission, and present the photometric and spectroscopic properties of a total of seven LABs; the two new LABs and five previously-known LABs at $z=5.7-6.6$. The z70-1 LAB shows the extended Ly$\alpha$ emission with a scale length of $1.4\pm 0.2$ kpc, about three times larger than the UV continuum emission, making z70-1 the most distant LAB identified to date. All of the 7 LABs, except z49-1, exhibit no AGN signatures such as X-ray emission, {\sc Nv}$\lambda$1240 emission, or Ly$\alpha$ line broadening, while z49-1 has a strong {\sc Civ}$\lambda$1548 emission line indicating an AGN on the basis of the UV-line ratio diagnostics. We carefully model the point-spread functions of the HSC images, and conduct two-component exponential profile fitting to the extended Ly$\alpha$ emission of the LABs. The Ly$\alpha$ scale lengths of the core (star-forming region) and the halo components are $r_{\mathrm{c}}=0.6-1.2$ kpc and $r_{\mathrm{h}}=2.0-13.8$ kpc, respectively. The average $r_{\mathrm{h}}$ of the LABs falls on the extrapolation of the $r_{\mathrm{h}}$-Ly$\alpha$ luminosity relation of the Ly$\alpha$ halos around VLT/MUSE star-forming galaxies at the similar redshifts, suggesting that typical LABs at $z\gtrsim 5$ are not special objects, but star-forming galaxies at the bright end.

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