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Understanding Lyman-alpha emitters

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

This publication contains the conference summary of the Understanding Lyman-alpha Emitters conference held at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg October 6 - 10, 2008. The scope of the conference was to bring together most of the scientists working in the field of Lyman-alpha emitters, whether at low or high redshift, or on observational or theoretical aspects, and to summarise how far the field of study of galaxies with Lyman-alpha emission has come. An outlook towards the future of the field was also desired. As part of the conference, two days were dedicated to in total six discussion sessions. The topics were i) new methods and selection methods, ii) morphology, iii) what can the local Universe observations tell us about the high redshift Universe?, iv) clustering, v) SED fitting and vi) Ly-alpha blobs. The chairs of those sessions were asked to summarise the discussions, as presented in these proceedings.

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@article{arxiv.0904.3335,
  title  = {Understanding Lyman-alpha emitters},
  author = {Kim K. Nilsson and Klaus Meisenheimer and Nicholas Bond and Eric Gawiser and Harold Francke and Daniel Kunth and Toru Yamada and Goran Ostlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.3335},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Workshop summary of the "Understanding Lyman-alpha Emitters" meeting in Heidelberg, Oct. 2008, 49 pages (seven contributions), to be published in New Astronomy Review. Conference home-page, with presentations, is http://www.mpia.de/Public/Aktuelles/Tagungen/lae08/lae08.html

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