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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 788, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/788/1/L4
关键词
galaxies: abundances; galaxies: dwarf; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: fundamental parameters; galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: starburst; gravitational lensing: strong
资金
- European Commission
We investigate the gas-phase metallicity and Lyman continuum (LyC) escape fraction of a strongly gravitationally lensed, extreme emission-line galaxy at z = 3.417, J1000+0221S, recently discovered by the CANDELS team. We derive ionization- and metallicity-sensitive emission-line ratios from H+K band Large Binocular Telescope (LBT)/LUCI medium resolution spectroscopy. J1000+0221S shows high ionization conditions, as evidenced by its enhanced [O III]/[O II] and [O III]/H beta ratios. Strong-line methods based on the available line ratios suggest that J1000+0221S is an extremely metal-poor galaxy, with a metallicity of 12+log(O/H) < 7.44 (Z < 0.05 Z(circle dot)), placing it among the most metal-poor star-forming galaxies at z greater than or similar to 3 discovered so far. In combination with its low stellar mass (2 x 10(8) M-circle dot) and high star formation rate (5 M-circle dot yr(-1)), the metallicity of J1000+0221S is consistent with the extrapolation of the mass-metallicity relation traced by Lyman-break galaxies at z greater than or similar to 3 to low masses, but it is 0.55 dex lower than predicted by the fundamental metallicity relation at z less than or similar to 2.5. These observations suggest a rapidly growing galaxy, possibly fed by massive accretion of pristine gas. Additionally, deep LBT/LBC photometry in the UGR bands are used to derive a limit to the LyC escape fraction, thus allowing us to explore for the first time the regime of sub-L* galaxies at z > 3. We find a 1 sigma upper limit to the escape fraction of 23%, which adds a new observational constraint to recent theoretical models predicting that sub-L* galaxies at high-z have high escape fractions and thus are the responsible for the reionization of the universe.
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