Lyman continuum leakage from low-mass galaxies with Mstar < 1.E8 Msun

Abstract

We present observations with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph onboard the Hubble Space Telescope of nine low-mass star-forming galaxies at redshifts, z, in the range 0.3179-0.4524, with stellar masses Mstar < 10^8 M and veruny high specific star-formation rates sSFR~150-630 Gyr^{-1}, aiming to study the dependence of leaking Lyman continuum (LyC) emission on stellar mass and some other characteristics of the galaxy. We detect LyC emission in four out of nine galaxies with escape fractions, fesc(LyC), in the range of 11-35 per cent, and establish upper limits for fesc(LyC) in the remaining five galaxies. We observe a narrow Ly-alpha emission line with two peaks in seven galaxies and likely more complex Ly-alpha profiles in the two remaining galaxies. The velocity separation between the peaks Vsep varies in the range from ~229 km/s to ~512 km/s. Our additional data on low-mass galaxies confirm and strengthen the tight anti-correlation between fesc(LyC) and Vsep found for previous low-redshift galaxy samples with higher stellar masses. Vsep remains the best indirect indicator of LyC leakage. It is better than O32 on which fesc(LyC) depends weakly, with a large scatter. Finally, contrary to expectations, we find no increase of fesc(LyC) with decreasing galaxy stellar mass Mstar.

arXiv comment19 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1805.09865. A few typos are fixed

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