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Radially average surface brightness (SB) profile of the Lyα emission of A2744-45924. Shown are the SB profile measured in the MUSE image (teal solid line; the shaded area gives the 1σ dispersion), and the SB produced by a point source for reference (black dotted line), normalized to the peak Lyα emission of A2744-45924. We compare our measurements to the halos measured around star-forming galaxies (3 < z < 6; −22 < MUV < −15; Leclercq et al. 2017, shaded orange region between 16th and 84th percentiles), and also to Lyα halos of quasars at z ∼ 3.2 (blue dot-dashed and orange dashed lines, Borisova et al. 2016; Mackenzie et al. 2021, respectively). The Lyα halo of A2744-45924 is comparable to that of SFGs both in terms of absolute SB and exponential scale length, despite having Lbol comparable to that of quasars from Mackenzie et al. (2021). For reference, we also plot the faintest quasar halo in Mackenzie et al. (2021) as a dotted orange line.

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