3D tomography of the giant Ly$\alpha$ nebulae of $z$$\approx$3--5 radio-loud AGN

Abstract

Ly$\alpha$ emission nebulae are ubiquitous around high-z galaxies and are tracers of the gaseous environment on scales out to >100 kpc. High-z radio galaxies (HzRGs, type-2 radio-loud quasars) host large scale nebulae observed in the ionised gas differ from those seen in other types of high-z quasars. In this work, we exploit MUSE observations of Lya nebulae around eight HzRGs ($2.9<z<4.5$). All the HzRGs have large scale Lya emission nebulae with seven of them extended over 100 kpc at the observed surface brightness (SB) limit. Because the emission line profiles are significantly affected by neutral hydrogen absorbers across the entire nebulae, we perform an absorption correction to infer maps of the intrinsic Lya SB, central velocity and velocity width, all at the last scattering surface of the observed Lya photons. We find: (i) The intrinsic SB radial profiles can be described by an inner exponential and an outter power law; (ii) our HzRGs have higher SB and more asymmetric nebulae than both RL and RQ type-1s; (iii) intrinsic nebula kinematics of four HzRGs show evidence of jet-driven outflows but no general trends for the whole sample; (iv) a relation between the nebula maximum extent and the offset between the AGN and the nebula centroids; (v) an alignment between radio jet position angles and the nebula morphology. All support a scenario where the orientation of the AGN has an impact on the observed nebular morphologies and resonant scattering may affect the shape of the SB profiles, nebular kinematics and relations between the observed Lya morphologies. Furthermore, we find evidence showing that the outskirts of the ionised gas nebulae may be 'contaminated' by Lya photons from nearby emission halos. Overall, this work provides results which allow us to compare Lya nebulae around various classes of quasars at and beyond Cosmic Noon. [Abridged]

arXiv commentAccepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics; 43 pages (main text 24 pages), 31 Figures (13 in main text)

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