Dressler, Alan; Henry, Alaina; Martin, Crystal L.; Sawicki, Marcin, 1969-; McCarthy, Patrick; Villaneuva, Edward (American Astronomical SocietyIOP Publishing, 2015-06-10)
We report the first direct and robust measurement of the faint-end slope of the Ly[alpha] emitter (LAE) luminosity function (LF) at z = 5.7. Candidate LAEs from a low-spectral-resolution blind search with IMACS on ...