Abstract
We present Lya and UV-nebular emission line properties of bright Lya emitters
(LAEs) at z=6-7 with a luminosity of log L_Lya/erg s-1 = 43-44 identified in
the 21-deg2 area of the SILVERRUSH early sample developed with the Subaru Hyper
Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey data. Our optical spectroscopy newly confirm 21 bright
LAEs with clear Lya emission, and contribute to make a spectroscopic sample of
97 LAEs at z=6-7 in SILVERRUSH. From the spectroscopic sample, we select 7
remarkable LAEs as bright as Himiko and CR7 objects, and perform deep
Keck/MOSFIRE and Subaru/nuMOIRCS near-infrared spectroscopy reaching the
3sigma-flux limit of ~ 2x10^-18 erg s-1 for the UV-nebular emission lines of
He II1640, C IV1548,1550, and O III1661,1666. Except for one tentative
detection of C IV, we find no strong UV-nebular lines down to the flux limit,
placing the upper limits of the rest-frame equivalent widths (EW_0) of ~2-4 A
for He II, C IV, and O III lines. Here we also investigate the VLT/X-SHOOTER
spectrum of CR7 whose 6 sigma detection of He II is claimed by Sobral et al.
Although two individuals and the ESO-archive service carefully re-analyze the
X-SHOOTER data that are used in the study of Sobral et al., no He II signal of
CR7 is detected, supportive of weak UV-nebular lines of the bright LAEs even
for CR7. Spectral properties of these bright LAEs are thus clearly different
from those of faint dropouts at z~7 that have strong UV-nebular lines shown in
the various studies. Comparing these bright LAEs and the faint dropouts, we
find anti-correlations between the UV-nebular line EW_0 and UV-continuum
luminosity, which are similar to those found at z~2-3.
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