Can Blue UV-Bright Galaxies Drive Reionization at Cosmic Dawn? An $M_{\rm UV}=-19.6$ Galaxy with $f_{\rm esc}\approx0.85$ at $z=9.244$
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Yunjing Wu, Sijia Cai, Yongda Zhu, Masami Ouchi, Yuichi Harikane, Zheng Cai et al. · arXiv: 2610.24092v1 · Summary page
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A very blue galaxy may let most of its ionizing light escape
Deep James Webb Space Telescope spectroscopy has sharpened the picture of EBG-1, a gravitationally lensed galaxy at redshift 9.244, seen during the universe’s first several hundred million years. Its exceptionally blue ultraviolet light and measured emission lines point to low oxygen abundance—about three percent of the Sun’s—and relatively little carbon compared with oxygen.
Comparisons with synthetic spectra favor a scenario in which at least about three-quarters of the galaxy’s hydrogen-ionizing photons escape, with roughly 85 percent giving the best overall match. That fraction is model-inferred, not directly measured. If the interpretation holds, it shows how a relatively ultraviolet-bright galaxy could contribute strongly to reionization, the era when radiation stripped electrons from the hydrogen filling intergalactic space.
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