Abstract
We present results of the cross-correlation Lya intensity mapping with
Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) ultra-deep narrowband images and Lya emitters
(LAEs) at $z=5.7$ and $6.6$ in a total area of $4$ deg$^2$. Although
overwhelming amount of data quality controls have been performed for the
narrowband images and the LAE samples, we further conduct extensive analysis
evaluating systematics of large-scale point spread function wings, sky
subtractions, and unknown errors on the basis of physically uncorrelated
signals and sources found in real HSC images and object catalogs, respectively.
Removing the systematics, we carefully calculate cross-correlations between Lya
intensity of the narrowband images and the LAEs. We identify very diffuse Lya
emission with the $3\sigma$ ($2\sigma$) significance at $>150$ comoving kpc
(ckpc) far from the LAEs at $z = 5.7$ ($6.6$), beyond a virial radius of
star-forming galaxies with $M_h 10^11 M_ødot$. The diffuse Lya
emission possibly extends up to $1,000$ ckpc with the surface brightness of
$10^-20-10^-19$ erg s$^-1$ cm$^-2$ arcsec$^-2$. We confirm that the
small-scale ($<150$ ckpc) Lya radial profiles of LAEs in our Lya intensity maps
are consistent with those obtained by recent MUSE observations (Leclercq et al.
2017). Comparisons with numerical simulations suggest that the large-scale
($150-1,000$ ckpc) Lya emission are not explained by unresolved faint
sources of neighboring galaxies including satellites, but by a combination of
Lya photons emitted from the central LAE and other unknown sources, such as a
cold-gas stream and galactic outflow. We find no evolution in the Lya radial
profiles of our LAEs from $z=5.7$ to $6.6$, where theoretical models predict a
flattening of the profile slope made by cosmic reionization, albeit with our
moderately large observational errors.
Description
SILVERRUSH. IX. Ly$\alpha$ Intensity Mapping with Star-Forming Galaxies at $z=5.7$ and $6.6$: Ly$\alpha$ Emission Extended at $>150$ comoving kpc Beyond the Virial-Radius Scale of Galaxy Dark Matter Halos
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