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We investigate the degree of opacity of high-redshift galaxies to outgoing UV photons. Using extremely sensitive multi-band images of 27 high-redshift galaxies we show that in average no more than 4% of the continuum UV flux can escape (3σ limit) from each galaxy. This result is compatible with observations of low-z galaxies, but is in contradiction with some recent results based on spectroscopy of z ≈ 3 galaxies.
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Fernández-Soto, A., Lanzetta, K.M., Chen, HW. (2003). The UV Opacity of High-Redshift Galaxies. In: Gallego, J., Zamorano, J., Cardiel, N. (eds) Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics III. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1778-6_15
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