The miniJPAS and J-NEP surveys: Identification and characterization of the Ly<i>α</i> emitter population and the Ly<i>α</i> luminosity function at redshift 2.05 < <i>z</i> < 3.75
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Abstract
We present the Lyman- α (Ly α ) luminosity function (LF) at 2.05 < z < 3.75, estimated from a sample of 67 Ly α -emitter (LAE) candidates in the Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astronomical Survey (J-PAS) pathfinder surveys: miniJPAS and J-NEP. These two surveys cover a total effective area of ∼1.14 deg 2 with 54 narrow band (NB) filters ( FWHM ∼ 145 Å) across the optical range, with typical limiting magnitudes of ∼23. This set of NBs allowed us to probe Ly α emission in a wide and continuous range of redshifts. We developed a method for detecting Ly α emission for the estimation of the Ly α LF using the whole J-PAS filter set. We tested this method by applying it to the miniJPAS and J-NEP data. In order to compute the corrections needed to estimate the Ly α LF and to test the performance of the candidate selection method, we built mock catalogs. These include representative populations of LAEs at 1.9 < z < 4.5 as well as their expected contaminants, namely low- z galaxies and z < 2 quasi-stellar objects (QSOs). We show that our method is able to provide the Ly α LF at the intermediate-bright range of luminosity (43.5 ≲ log 10 ( L Ly α /erg s −1 ) ≲ 44.5) combining both miniJPAS and J-NEP. The photometric information provided by these surveys suggests that our samples are dominated by bright, Ly α -emitting active galactic nuclei (i.e., AGNs). At log 10 ( L Ly α /erg s −1 ) < 44.5, we fit our Ly α LF to a power law with a slope of A = 0.70 ± 0.25. We also fit a Schechter function to our data, obtaining the following: log 10 (Φ ∗ /Mpc −3 ) = −6.30 −0.70 +0.48 , log 10 ( L ∗ /erg s −1 ) = 44.85 −0.32 +0.50 , and α = −1.65 −0.27 +0.29 . Overall, our results confirm the presence of an AGN component at the bright end of the Ly α LF. In particular, we find no significant contribution of star-forming LAEs to the Ly α LF at log 10 ( L Ly α /erg s −1 ) > 43.5. This work serves as a proof of concept for the results that can be obtained with the upcoming data releases of the J-PAS survey.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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