Full-data Results of Hubble Frontier Fields: UV Luminosity Functions at z ∼ 6-10 and a Consistent Picture of Cosmic Reionization

We present UV luminosity functions of dropout galaxies at with the complete Hubble Frontier Fields data. We obtain a catalog of ∼450 dropout-galaxy candidates (350, 66, and 40 at , 8, and 9, respectively), with UV absolute magnitudes that reach mag, ∼2 mag deeper than the Hubble Ultra Deep Field det...

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Published in:The Astrophysical journal 2018-02, Vol.854 (1), p.73
Main Authors: Ishigaki, Masafumi, Kawamata, Ryota, Ouchi, Masami, Oguri, Masamune, Shimasaku, Kazuhiro, Ono, Yoshiaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Astrophysics
Computer simulation
Detection limits
Galaxies
galaxies: evolution
galaxies: formation
galaxies: high-redshift
Hubble deep field
Hydrogen
Image detection
Ionization
Luminosity
Multiplication
Optical analysis
Optical thickness
Photon emission
Slopes
Thomson scattering
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Summary:We present UV luminosity functions of dropout galaxies at with the complete Hubble Frontier Fields data. We obtain a catalog of ∼450 dropout-galaxy candidates (350, 66, and 40 at , 8, and 9, respectively), with UV absolute magnitudes that reach mag, ∼2 mag deeper than the Hubble Ultra Deep Field detection limits. We carefully evaluate number densities of the dropout galaxies by Monte Carlo simulations, including all lensing effects such as magnification, distortion, and multiplication of images as well as detection completeness and contamination effects in a self-consistent manner. We find that UV luminosity functions at have steep faint-end slopes, , and likely steeper slopes, at . We also find that the evolution of UV luminosity densities shows a non-accelerated decline beyond in the case of , but an accelerated one in the case of . We examine whether our results are consistent with the Thomson scattering optical depth from the Planck satellite and the ionized hydrogen fraction QH ii at based on the standard analytic reionization model. We find that reionization scenarios exist that consistently explain all of the observational measurements with the allowed parameters of and for , where is the escape fraction, Mtrunc is the faint limit of the UV luminosity function, and is the conversion factor of the UV luminosity to the ionizing photon emission rate. The length of the reionization period is estimated to be (for ), consistent with the recent estimate from Planck.
ISSN:0004-637X
1538-4357
DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/aaa544