The Lyman Continuum Escape and ISM properties in Tololo 1247-232 – New Insights from HST and VLA

As of April 19, 2017 our paper entitled “The Lyman Continuum Escape and ISM properties in Tololo 1247-232 – New Insights from HST and VLA” is accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronmical Society (MNRAS). In the paper, we report on our work based on data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). Using an advanced data reduction procedure for our COS (Cosmic Origins Spectrograph) spectra, we confirm weak LyC flux emerging from the central region of the galaxy, corresponding to an escape fraction of less than two percent, i.e. the lowest escape fraction reported for the galaxy so far. We further study far ultraviolet absorption lines of Si II and Si IV, as well as 21cm hydrogen radiation and bring them into context of physical processes that drive the LyC escape in the galaxy.