Probing the faint-end luminosity function of Lyman-alpha emitters at 3 < z < 7 behind 17 MUSE lensing clusters

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Table 5.

Results of the faint end slope α from different tests.

	z₃₅	z₄₅	z₆₀	z_all
Schechter fitting
1% completeness cut	−2.00 ± 0.07	−1.97 ± 0.09	−2.28 ± 0.12	−2.06 ± 0.07
10% completeness cut	−1.78 ± 0.06	−1.83 ± 0.12	−1.75 ± 0.10	−1.46 ± 0.05
1% completeness cut, fluxes obtained from the second method	−2.10 ± 0.06	−1.97 ± 0.08	−2.24 ± 0.11	−1.82 ± 0.03
1% completeness cut zconf1 included	−1.83 ± 0.17	−1.92 ± 0.09	−1.94 ± 0.10	−2.29 ± 0.09
Linear fit
1% completeness cut	−1.76 ± 0.27	−1.99 ± 0.17	−1.96 ± 0.54	−2.12 ± 0.16
10% completeness cut	−1.55 ± 0.17	−1.63 ± 0.21	−1.66 ± 0.24	−1.64 ± 0.12
Faint end slope retain	−2.00 ± 0.50	−1.97 ± 0.50	−2.28 ± 0.50	−2.06 ± 0.60

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