SILVERRUSH X: Machine Learning-aided Selection of 9318 LAEs at z=2.2, 3.3, 4.9, 5.7, 6.6, and 7.0 from the HSC SSP and CHORUS Survey Data

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  • Yoshiaki Ono
  • Ryohei Itoh
  • Takatoshi Shibuya
  • Masami Ouchi
  • Yuichi Harikane
  • Satoshi Yamanaka
  • Akio K. Inoue
  • Toshiyuki Amagasa
  • Daichi Miura
  • Maiki Okura
  • Kazuhiro Shimasaku
  • Ikuru Iwata
  • Yoshiaki Taniguchi
  • Seiji Fujimoto
  • Masanori Iye
  • Anton T. Jaelani
  • Nobunari Kashikawa
  • Shotaro Kikuchihara
  • Satoshi Kikuta
  • Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi
  • And 8 others
  • Haruka Kusakabe
  • Chien-Hsiu Lee
  • Yongming Liang
  • Yoshiki Matsuoka
  • Rieko Momose
  • Tohru Nagao
  • Kimihiko Nakajima
  • Ken-ichi Tadaki

We present a new catalog of 9318 Ly alpha emitter (LAE) candidates at z = 2.2, 3.3, 4.9, 5.7, 6.6, and 7.0 that are photometrically selected by the SILVERRUSH program with a machine learning technique from large area (up to 25.0 deg(2)) imaging data with six narrowband filters taken by the Subaru Strategic Program with Hyper Suprime-Cam and a Subaru intensive program, Cosmic HydrOgen Reionization Unveiled with Subaru. We construct a convolutional neural network that distinguishes between real LAEs and contaminants with a completeness of 94% and a contamination rate of 1%, enabling us to efficiently remove contaminants from the photometrically selected LAE candidates. We confirm that our LAE catalogs include 177 LAEs that have been spectroscopically identified in our SILVERRUSH programs and previous studies, ensuring the validity of our machine learning selection. In addition, we find that the object-matching rates between our LAE catalogs and our previous results are similar or equal to 80%-100% at bright NB magnitudes of less than or similar to 24 mag. We also confirm that the surface number densities of our LAE candidates are consistent with previous results. Our LAE catalogs will be made public on our project webpage.

Original languageEnglish
Article number78
JournalAstrophysical Journal
Volume911
Issue number2
Number of pages20
ISSN0004-637X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Apr 2021

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