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Table B.1.

Properties retrieved from the follow-up of our 45 spectroscopic targets.

Instrument OSIRIS spectrograph at Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC)
Grism R500B
Seeing requested: 1.4 (maximum) – effective: 1.03 (averaged on all observations)
Moon requested: any – effective: > ​90% Dark
Air mass requested: 1.5 (maximum) – effective: 1.266 (averaged on all observations)
S/N ≥3 at λobs ∼ 4000 Å

ID RA [hh:mm:ss] Dec [hh:mm:ss] Time [s] SDSS class GTC class zspec LLyα EWobs

GTC2018A_01 22:50:40.27 34:23:43.6 2185 QSO/AGN 2.21 5.18e+44 513.98
GTC2018A_02 00:43:38.56 05:41:35.6 2185 GALAXY QSO/AGN 2.23 1.70e+44 417.21
GTC2018A_03 23:01:08.05 33:44:20.0 2185 STAR STAR
GTC2018A_04 16:17:15.12 50:25:59.2 2185 STAR QSO/AGN 1.52
GTC2018A_05 22:22:06.30 11:07:47.7 2335 STAR QSO/AGN 2.23 3.87e+43 268.21
GTC2018A_06 18:10:22.34 41:49:25.3 2185 STAR QSO/AGN 2.22 2.32e+44 741.21
GTC2018A_07 17:35:17.03 31:44:42.8 2185 GALAXY QSO/AGN 2.23 7.46e+43 665.04
GTC2018A_08 01:31:29.69 33:55:14.9 2185 STAR QSO/AGN 2.21 1.26e+44 637.59
GTC2018A_09 14:59:37.24 47:15:26.3 2185 STAR QSO/AGN 2.18 2.13e+44 502.01
GTC2018A_10 16:11:57.72 46:00:45.8 2185 STAR QSO/AGN 2.21 1.56e+44 263.97
GTC2018A_11 18:32:04.26 39:54:08.8 2185 QSO/AGN 1.54
GTC2018A_12 02:16:13.21 34:28:37.3 2185 QSO/AGN 2.21 1.33e+44 272.11
GTC2018A_13 14:32:51.07 52:36:46.7 1954 GALAXY GALAXY 0.51
GTC2018A_14 22:01:43.81 28:23:36.5 2335 STAR QSO/AGN 1.53
GTC2018A_15 16:09:37.67 45:29:53.6 2245 STAR STAR
GTC2018A_16 22:43:00.76 34:10:26.4 2335 STAR QSO/AGN 2.25
GTC2018A_17 15:59:27.15 57:05:04.6 2245 STAR QSO/AGN 2.22 1.08e+44 268.69
GTC2018A_18 23:03:24.69 33:20:25.5 2245 STAR STAR
GTC2018A_19 16:03:33.14 46:11:53.2 2245 QSO/AGN 2.25 6.19e+43 351.25
GTC2018A_20 15:19:49.02 53:16:18.4 2335 STAR QSO/AGN 2.19 2.04e+44 828.73
GTC2018A_21 14:53:19.08 53:02:42.3 2365 STAR QSO/AGN 2.19 6.15e+43 217.99
GTC2018A_22 17:41:33.43 57:05:11.4 2335 STAR QSO/AGN 2.27 8.20e+43 481.13
GTC2018A_23 15:38:49.50 48:58:13.1 2014 GALAXY STAR
GTC2018A_24 14:53:32.94 54:09:44.8 2335 GALAXY QSO/AGN 1.53
GTC2019A_01 07:18:49.01 40:50:42.7 1165 STAR STAR
GTC2019A_02 22:37:58.84 11:41:01.4 1285 STAR QSO/AGN 2.204 4.56e+44 706.71
GTC2019A_03 02:27:21.78 29:56:23.7 1366 STAR QSO/AGN 2.202 3.41e+44 859.82
GTC2019A_04 16:14:11.38 53:11:16.6 1426 STAR BAL QSO 2.174 2.79e+44 290.75
GTC2019A_05 15:31:12.21 48:08:31.4 1576 STAR QSO/AGN 2.209 2.91e+44 570.59
GTC2019A_06 15:34:37.75 46:42:36.3 1816 STAR QSO/AGN 2.231 3.02e+44 414.59
GTC2019A_07 12:38:36.94 56:10:39.8 2086 STAR QSO/AGN 2.177 2.02e+44 183.25
GTC2019A_08 12:29:07.02 56:03:49.2 2086 STAR QSO/AGN 2.191 1.35e+44 230.15
GTC2019A_09 08:03:53.42 30:46:36.2 2206 STAR QSO/AGN 2.256 2.14e+44 380.86
GTC2019A_10 07:15:23.13 39:50:57.3 2356 STAR QSO/AGN 2.189 1.29e+44 625.73
GTC2019A_11 09:00:47.61 32:06:54.9 2806 GALAXY QSO/AGN 2.253 9.54e+43 364.01
GTC2019A_12 00:51:10.29 03:08:25.4 3406 STAR QSO/AGN 1.543 8.34e+43 104.21
GTC2019A_13 17:25:01.20 33:46:50.4 3706 STAR QSO/AGN 1.602 1.27e+44 180.52
GTC2019A_14 10:28:20.14 39:52:42.3 3706 STAR QSO/AGN 2.271 1.83e+44 121.36
GTC2019A_15 00:32:08.19 39:47:23.6 4476 STAR QSO/AGN 1.512 1.33e+44 118.74
GTC2019A_16 16:14:30.92 50:12:24.2 4686 GALAXY QSO/AGN 2.211 1.00e+44 705.82
GTC2019A_17 00:41:06.77 08:02:56.5 4761 STAR GALAXY
GTC2019A_18 16:10:19.83 45:31:49.4 5136 GALAXY QSO/AGN 2.271 1.06e+44 644.06
GTC2019A_19 22:56:29.07 09:36:45.5 5136 STAR QSO/AGN 2.762 8.96e+43 390.88
GTC2019A_20 09:10:21.90 38:39:30.6 6246 GALAXY QSO/AGN 1.528 1.61e+44 561.05
GTC2019A_21 13:20:29.68 56:31:49.6 6795 GALAXY QSO/AGN 2.197 8.61e+43 154.68

Notes. These results confirm 29/45 sources (64.4%) as genuine Lyα ​-emitting QSOs at z​ ∼ ​2. The most numerous interlopers are CIV-emitting QSOs at z​ ∼ ​1.52, namely 8/45 targets (∼18%, see Stroe et al. 2017a,b), and 5/45 blue stars (∼11%). The latter are selected by our pipeline due to their strong colour-gradients which mimic a NB photometric excess in the J0395 filter. We also note one Lyβ-emitting QSO contaminant at z​ ∼ ​2.76. We report the measured LLyα and EWobs only for the confirmed QSOs at z​ ∼ ​2.2. Among these, the spectrum of GTC 16 could not be calibrated and measured. Finally, all the z​ ∼ ​2.2 confirmed sources in our sample are QSOs with LLyα​ >  ​6 × 1043 erg s−1. This supports the results of Konno et al. (2016), Matthee et al. (2017b), Sobral et al. (2018b,a) and Calhau et al. (2020) about the strong contribution of AGNs/QSOs to the Lyα LF at Log(Lyα)​ ≳ ​43.3.

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