@article{9c514d3a6352454bb65b9a52572d9cbd,
title = "Systematic Identification of LAEs for Visible Exploration and Reionization Research Using Subaru HSC (SILVERRUSH). I. Program strategy and clustering properties of ∼2000 Lyα emitters at z = 6-7 over the 0.3-0.5 Gpc2 survey area",
abstract = "We present the SILVERRUSH program strategy and clustering properties investigated with ∼2000 Lyα emitters (LAEs) at z = 5.7 and 6.6 found in the early data of the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Subaru Strategic Program survey exploiting the carefully designed narrow-band filters. We derive angular correlation functions with the unprecedentedly large samples of LAEs at z = 6-7 over the large total area of 14-21 deg2 corresponding to 0.3-0.5 comoving Gpc2. We obtain the average large-scale bias values of bavg = 4.1±0.2 (4.5±0.6) at z = 5.7 (z = 6.6) for L∗ LAEs, indicating a weak evolution of LAE clustering from z = 5.7 to 6.6. We compare the LAE clustering results with two independent theoretical models that suggest an increase of an LAE clustering signal by the patchy ionized bubbles at the epoch of reionization (EoR), and estimate the neutral hydrogen fraction to be xHI = 0.15-0.15+0.15 at z = 6.6. Based on the halo occupation distributionmodels, we find that the L∗ LAEs are hosted by dark-matter halos with an average mass of log(Mh/M) = 11.1-0.4+0.2 (10.8-0.5+0.3) at z = 5.7 (6.6) with a Lyα duty cycle of 1% or less, where the results of z = 6.6 LAEs may be slightly biased, due to the increase of the clustering signal at the EoR. Our clustering analysis reveals the low-mass nature of L∗ LAEs at z = 6-7, and that these LAEs probably evolve into massive super-L∗ galaxies in the present-day universe.",
keywords = "Cosmology, Formation-galaxies, High-redshift, Observations-galaxies",
author = "Masami Ouchi and Yuichi Harikane and Takatoshi Shibuya and Kazuhiro Shimasaku and Yoshiaki Taniguchi and Akira Konno and Masakazu Kobayashi and Masaru Kajisawa and Tohru Nagao and Yoshiaki Ono and Inoue, {Akio K.} and Masayuki Umemura and Masao Mori and Kenji Hasegawa and Ryo Higuchi and Yutaka Komiyama and Yuichi Matsuda and Kimihiko Nakajima and Tomoki Saito and Wang, {Shiang Yu}",
note = "Funding Information: The NB816 filter was supported by Ehime University (PI: Y. Taniguchi). The NB921 filter was supported by KAKENHI (23244025) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) through the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PI: M. Ouchi). This paper makes use of software developed for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. We thank the LSST Project for making their code available as free software at http://dm.lsst.org. The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys (PS1) have been made possible through contributions of the Institute for Astronomy the University of Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS Project Office, the Max-Planck Society and its participating institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and theMax Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, The Johns Hopkins University, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh,Queen's University Belfast, theHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNX08AR22G issued through the Planetary Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate, the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1238877, the University of Maryland, and Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. This work is supported by World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative), MEXT, Japan, and KAKENHI (15H02064) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) through Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Based on data collected at the Subaru Telescope and retrieved from the HSC data archive system, which is operated by Subaru Telescope and Astronomy Data Center at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Funding Information: We are grateful to useful discussion with Mark Dijikstra, Richard Ellis, Andrea Ferrara, Martin Haehnelt, Alex Hagen, Koki Kaki-ichi, Andrei Mesinger, Naveen Reddy, and Zheng Zheng. We acknowledge Jirong Mao and Anne Hutter for their comments. The Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) collaboration includes the astronomical communities of Japan and Taiwan, and Princeton University. The HSC instrumentation and software were developed by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), the University of Tokyo, the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), the Academia Sinica Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan (ASIAA), and Princeton University. Funding was contributed by the FIRST program from Japanese Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), the Toray Science Foundation, NAOJ, Kavli IPMU, KEK, ASIAA, and Princeton University. The NB816 filter was supported by Ehime University (PI: Y. Taniguchi). The NB921 filter was supported by KAKENHI (23244025) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) through the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PI: M. Ouchi). This paper makes use of software developed for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. We thank the LSST Project for making their code available as free software at http://dm.lsst.org. The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys (PS1) have been made possible through contributions of the Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS Project Office, the Max-Planck Society and its participating institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, The Johns Hopkins University, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh, Queen{\textquoteright}s University Belfast, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNX08AR22G issued through the Planetary Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate, the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1238877, the University of Maryland, and Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. This work is supported by World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative), MEXT, Japan, and KAKENHI (15H02064) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) through Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Based on data collected at the Subaru Telescope and retrieved from the HSC data archive system, which is operated by Subaru Telescope and Astronomy Data Center at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Astronomical Society of Japan. All rights reserved.",
year = "2018",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1093/pasj/psx074",
language = "English",
volume = "70",
journal = "Publication of the Astronomical Society of Japan",
issn = "0004-6264",
publisher = "Astronomical Society of Japan",
number = "Special Issue 1",
}