Lyman alpha Emission from High-Redshift Galaxies
Astrophysics
2016-08-30 v1
Abstract
We summarise the results of a deep search for Lyman alpha emission from star-forming regions associated with damped Lyman alpha absorption systems and conclude that the Lyman alpha luminosity of high redshift galaxies is generally less than 10^(42) erg/s . We also present a newly discovered case, in the field of the QSO Q2059-360, where the emission is unusually strong, possibly because the damped system is close in redshift to the QSO.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9502076,
title = {Lyman alpha Emission from High-Redshift Galaxies},
author = {Max Pettini and Richard W. Hunstead and David L. King and Linda J. Smith},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9502076},
year = {2016}
}
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