Table B.1.
Properties retrieved from the follow-up of our 45 spectroscopic targets.
Instrument | OSIRIS spectrograph at Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) | |||||||
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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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