2023/07/10 by Stephanie M. Urbano Stawinski, Stawinski, Stephanie M. Urbano, M. C. Cooper +25
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) #FOS: Physical sciences #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2307.04782
openalex publication_date 2023/07/10 · openalex created_date 2023/07/13 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present a spectroscopic survey of Lyα emitters in the Extended Groth Strip (EGS) field, targeting the regime near the Epoch of Reionization. Using Keck/DEIMOS, we observed 947 high-z candidates with photometric redshifts from 3 < zphot < 7 and down to an H-band (HST/WFC3 F160W) magnitude limit of < 27.5. Observations were taken over the course of 8 nights, with integration times ranging from 4 to 7.8 hours. Our survey secured 137 unique redshifts, 126 of which are Lyα emitters at 2.8 < z < 6.5 with a mean redshift of z = 4.3. We provide a comprehensive redshift catalog for our targets, as well as the reduced one- and two- dimensional spectra for each object. These observations will provide an important auxiliary dataset for the JWST Directors Discretionary Early Release Science (DD-ERS) program the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS), which recently completed near- and mid-IR imaging and spectroscopy of galaxies in the EGS field.