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Extremely Metal-poor Representatives Explored by the Subaru Survey (EMPRESS). I. A Successful Machine-learning Selection of Metal-poor Galaxies and the Discovery of a Galaxy with M* < 106 M⊙ and 0.016Z⊙

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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 898, Issue 2, Pages -

Publisher

IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aba047

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Funding

  1. Subaru Telescope
  2. FIRST program from the Japanese Cabinet Office
  3. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
  4. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
  5. Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  6. Toray Science Foundation
  7. NAOJ
  8. Kavli IPMU
  9. KEK
  10. ASIAA
  11. Princeton University
  12. National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NNX08AR22G]
  13. National Science Foundation [AST-1238877]
  14. World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative), MEXT, Japan
  15. KAKENHI through the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [15H02064, 17H01110, 17H01114]
  16. JSPS KAKENHI [18J12840, 18K13578, 18J12727, 17K14257]
  17. European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant funding scheme (project ConTExt) [648179]
  18. Danish National Research Foundation [140]
  19. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18K13578, 17K14257, 18J12840, 18J12727] Funding Source: KAKEN

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We have initiated a new survey for local extremely metal-poor galaxies (EMPGs) with Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) large-area (similar to 500 deg(2)) optical images reaching a 5 sigma limit of similar to 26 mag, about 100 times deeper than the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). To selectZ/Z< 0.1 EMPGs from similar to 40 million sources detected in the Subaru images, we first develop a machine-learning (ML) classifier based on a deep neural network algorithm with a training data set consisting of optical photometry of galaxy, star, and QSO models. We test our ML classifier with SDSS objects having spectroscopic metallicity measurements and confirm that our ML classifier accomplishes 86% completeness and 46% purity EMPG classifications with photometric data. Applying our ML classifier to the photometric data of the Subaru sources, as well as faint SDSS objects with no spectroscopic data, we obtain 27 and 86 EMPG candidates from the Subaru and SDSS photometric data, respectively. We conduct optical follow-up spectroscopy for 10 of our EMPG candidates with Magellan/LDSS-3+MagE, Keck/DEIMOS, and Subaru/FOCAS and find that the 10 EMPG candidates are star-forming galaxies atz = 0.007-0.03 with large H beta equivalent widths of 104-265 A, stellar masses of log(

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