The Synthetic Emission Line COSMOS catalog: H$\alpha$ and [OII] galaxy luminosity functions and counts at $0.3<z<2.5$

Abstract

Star-forming galaxies with strong nebular and collisional emission lines are privileged target galaxies in forthcoming cosmological large galaxy redshift surveys. We use the COSMOS2015 photometric catalog to model galaxy spectral energy distributions and emission-line fluxes. We adopt an empirical but physically-motivated model that uses information from the best-fitting spectral energy distribution of stellar continuum to each galaxy. The emission-line flux model is calibrated and validated against direct flux measurements in subsets of galaxies that have 3D-HST or zCOSMOS-Bright spectra. We take a particular care in modelling dust attenuation such that our model can explain both H$\alpha$ and [OII] observed fluxes at different redshifts. We find that a simple solution to this is to introduce a redshift evolution in the dust attenuation fraction parameter, $f=E_{\mathrm{star}}(B-V)/E_{\mathrm{gas}}(B-V)$, as $f(z)=0.44+0.2z$. From this catalog, we derive the H$\alpha$ and [OII] luminosity functions up to redshifts of about 2.5 after carefully accounting for emission line flux and redshift errors. This allows us to make predictions for H$\alpha$ and [OII] galaxy number counts in next-generation cosmological redshift surveys. Our modeled emission lines and spectra in the COSMOS2015 catalog shall be useful to study the target selection for planned next-generation galaxy redshift surveys and we make them publicly available as `EL-COSMOS' on the ASPIC database.

arXiv comment21 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Our catalog is available as "EL-COSMOS" on the ASPIC database, http://cesam.lam.fr/aspic/. A few typos corrected

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