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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 775, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/775/1/L3
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galaxies: formation; galaxies: high-redshift; quasars: general
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [AST-0908805]
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0908805] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We present observations of a population of Ly alpha emitters (LAEs) exhibiting fluorescent emission via the reprocessing of ionizing radiation from nearby hyperluminous QSOs. These LAEs are part of a survey at redshifts 2.5 < z < 2.9 combining narrow-band photometric selection and spectroscopic follow-up to characterize the emission mechanisms, physical properties, and three-dimensional locations of the emitters with respect to their nearby hyperluminous QSOs. These data allow us to probe the radiation field, and thus the radiative history, of the QSOs, and we determine that most of the eight QSOs in our sample have been active and of comparable luminosity for a time 1 Myr less than or similar to t(Q) less than or similar to 20 Myr. Furthermore, we find that the ionizing QSO emission must have an opening angle theta similar to 30 degrees or larger relative to the line of sight.
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