The Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction of Galaxies and AGN in the GOODS Fields

Abstract

We present our analysis of the LyC emission and escape fraction of 111 spectroscopically verified galaxies with and without AGN from $2.26<z<4.3$. We extended our ERS sample from Smith et al. (2018; arXiv:1602.01555) with 64 galaxies in the GOODS North and South fields using WFC3/UVIS F225W, F275W, and F336W mosaics we independently drizzled using the HDUV, CANDELS, and UVUDF data. Among the 17 AGN from the 111 galaxies, one provided a LyC detection in F275W at $m_{AB}=23.19$ mag (S/N $\simeq$ 133) and $GALEX$ NUV at $m_{AB}=23.77$ mag (S/N $\simeq$ 13). We simultaneously fit $SDSS$ and $Chandra$ spectra of this AGN to an accretion disk and Comptonization model and find $f_{esc}$ values of $f_{esc}^{F275W}\simeq 28_{-4}^{+20}$% and $f_{esc}^{NUV}\simeq 30_{-5}^{+22}$%. For the remaining 110 galaxies, we stack image cutouts that capture their LyC emission using the F225W, F275W, and F336W data of the GOODS and ERS samples, and both combined, as well as subsamples of galaxies with and without AGN, and $all$ galaxies. We find the stack of 17 AGN dominate the LyC production from $⟨z⟩\simeq 2.3-4.3$ by a factor of $\sim$10 compared to all 94 galaxies without AGN. While the IGM of the early universe may have been reionized mostly by massive stars, there is evidence that a significant portion of the ionizing energy came from AGN.

arXiv comment36 pages, 17 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. v1 abstract latex errors corrected, minor changes to table 5, orcid ID corrected for one author

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