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Table 4.

Compilation of key parameters of LAE LF studies from the literature in the redshift range probed by MW.

Reference Method* z Area Volume logLLyα, lim
(Å) (deg2) (Mpc3) log (erg s−1)
Ouchi et al. (2008) SC/NB503 64 3.1 ± 0.03 0.983 7 × 105 42.0 356 41
SC/NB570 44 3.7 ± 0.03 0.965 6.1 × 105 42.6 101 26
SC/NB816 27 5.7 ± 0.05 1.033 9.2 × 105 42.5 401 17
Grove et al. (2009) FORS2/3NB 25 2.85/3.15/3.25 0.037 1.4 × 104 41.5 83 59
Cassata et al. (2011) VIMOS 2 − 6.6 0.62/0.16 41.0 84†† 153††
Matthee et al. (2017) INT/NB501 12 3.06 ≤ z ≤ 3.17 0.7 7.2 × 105 43.0 32 5
Sobral et al. (2018a) SC/IA464-527 50 3.1 ± 0.4 ≈2 17.3 × 106 42.5 2146 ?
SC/IA574,624 50 3.9 ± 0.3 ≈2 10.1 × 106 42.95 240 ?
SC/IA679,709 50 4.7 ± 0.2 ≈2 10.6 × 106 43.1 160 ?
SC/IA738-827 50 5.4 ± 0.5 ≈2 15.5 × 106 43.3 147 ?
SC4K/global 50 ∼2.5 − 6 ≈2 ∼108 42.5 3434 112
Drake et al. (2017b) MUSE/HUDF 3.5 ± 0.5 7 × 10−7 3.1 × 104 41.0 193
4.5 ± 0.5 7 × 10−7 2.6 × 104 41.0 144
5.8 ± 0.8 7 × 10−7 3.6 × 104 41.0 50
2.91 − 6.64 7 × 10−7 9.3 × 104 41.0 387
Drake et al. (2017a) MUSE/HDFS 2.91 − 6.64 8 × 10−8 1 × 104 41.4 59
Dawson et al. (2007) 4m/5NB 15 4.4 ± 0.1 2 × 10−4 1.5 × 104 42.0 97 79
Shioya et al. (2009) SC/NB711 12 4.86 ± 0.03 1.83 1.1 × 106 42.8 79 0
Konno et al. (2018) HSC/NB816 10 5.73 ± 0.05 13.8 1.2 × 107 42.9 1077 49
Shimasaku et al. (2006) SC/NB816 10 5.7 ± 0.05 0.2 1.8 × 105 42.5 89 39
Santos et al. (2016) SC/NB816 25 5.7 ± 0.05 7 6 × 106 42.4 514 46
Henry et al. (2012) IMACS/NB+slits 5.7 ± 0.1 0.015 1.5 × 104 42.1 105‡‡ 6
Bina et al. (2016) MUSE/Abell1689 2.91 − 6.64 8 × 10−8 900 40.5 17

Notes.( * )Legend for abbreviations: SC/X=Subaru Suprime-Cam with filter X; HSC/NB816=Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam with NB816 filter; FORS2/3NB=ESO VLT/FORS2 – 3 fields, with three different narrow-band filters; VIMOS=ESO VLT/VIMOS multi-slit spectroscopic survey; INT/NB501= Wide-Field Camera with NB501 filter at Isaac Newton 2.5 m Telescope; MUSE/HUDF=MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field; MUSE/HDFS=MUSE Hubble Deep Field South; 4m/5NB=5 overlapping narrow-band filters on two 4m class telescopes; IMACS/NB+slits=Multi-slit narrow-band spectroscopic search with IMACS on the Baade telescope (see also Martin et al. 2008); MUSE/Abel1689=MUSE observations of the lensing cluster Abell 1689. ( * *)Number of photometrically selected LAE candidates (Nphot) and number of spectroscopic confirmations (Nspec). ( † )Area of the imaging campaign (VIMOS Deep Survey/VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey) from which targets were pre-selected for VIMOS multi-slit spectroscopy. ( † †)Here Nphot refers to the number of photometrically pre-selected LAEs, while Nspec indicates the number of serendipitously detected sources. ( ‡ )Spectroscopic confirmations only reported for the combined SC4K sample. ( ‡ ‡)Single unresolved emission line objects without continuum detections (see also Martin et al. 2008). (♯)IA464, IA484, IA505, and IA527 medium-band filters. (♮)IA738, IA767, and IA827 medium-band filters. (♭)Effective comoving volume from lensing magnification.

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