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Ly$\alpha$ Emitters (LAEs) may represent an important galaxy population in the low mass regime. We present our deep narrowband imaging surveys in the COSMOS and ECDF-S fields and study the properties of LAEs at $z=2.23\pm0.03$. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Cai-Na Hao , Jia-Sheng Huang , Xiaoyang Xia , Xianzhong Zheng , Chunyan Jiang , Cheng Li

Faint galaxies are theorised to have played a major role in reionising the Universe. Their properties as well as the Lyman-{\alpha} emitter fraction, could provide useful insight into this epoch. We use four galaxy clusters from the Lensed…

We present Keck/MOSFIRE spectra of the diagnostic nebular emission lines [OIII]5007,4959, [OII]3727, and H-beta for a sample of 15 redshift z=3.1-3.7 Ly-alpha emitters (LAEs) and Lyman break galaxies (LBGs). In conjunction with spectra from…

Recent evidence suggests that high-redshift Ly-alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) with logL(Ly-alpha) > 43.5 erg/s, referred to as ultraluminous LAEs (ULLAEs), may show less evolution than lower-luminosity LAEs in the redshift range z=5.7-6.6.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-20 A. Songaila , A. J. Barger , L. L. Cowie , E. M. Hu , A. J. Taylor

We report a search for z=7 Ly-alpha emitters (LAEs) using a custom-made Narrow-Band filter, centered at 9755 Angstroms, with the instrument Suprime-Cam installed at the Subaru telescope. We observed two different fields and obtained two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Pascale Hibon , Nobunari Kashikawa , Christopher Willott , Masanori Iye , Takatoshi Shibuya

The visibility of high-redshift Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) provides important constraints on galaxy formation processes and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). However, predicting realistic and representative statistics for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-05 A. Smith , R. Kannan , E. Garaldi , M. Vogelsberger , R. Pakmor , V. Springel , L. Hernquist

We perform a systematic study of how the inhomogeneities in the Inter-Galactic Medium (IGM) affect the observability of Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) around the Epoch of Reionization. We focus on the IGM close to the galaxies as the detailed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-30 Akila Jeeson-Daniel , Benedetta Ciardi , Umberto Maio , Marco Pierleoni , Mark Dijkstra , Antonella Maselli

At redshifts beyond z>6, as the mean fraction of neutral hydrogen x_HI in the intergalactic medium (IGM) increases, the line flux of Lyman alpha (Lya) emitters can be significantly suppressed, which can result in a decrease in the observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Zoltan Haiman , Renyue Cen

Observations of high-redshift Ly-alpha sources are a major tool for studying the high-redshift Universe. We discuss the effect of the reionizing intergalactic medium on the observability of Ly-alpha sources based on large simulations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ilian T. Iliev , Paul R. Shapiro , Patrick McDonald , Garrelt Mellema , Ue-Li Pen

Ly$\alpha$ is the transition to the ground state from the first excited state of hydrogen (the most common element). Resonant scattering of this line by neutral hydrogen greatly impedes its emergence from galaxies, so the fraction of…

The analysis of the physical properties of low-redshift Ly$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) can provide clues in the study of their high-redshift analogues. At $z \sim 0.3$, LAEs are bright enough to be detected over almost the entire…

Lyman-$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) are a promising probe of the large-scale structure at high redshift, $z\gtrsim 2$. In particular, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment aims at observing LAEs at 1.9 $<z<$ 3.5 to measure the Baryon…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-26 Christoph Behrens , Chris Byrohl , Shun Saito , Jens C. Niemeyer

Narrowband imaging is a highly successful approach for finding large numbers of high redshift Lya emitting galaxies (LAEs) up to z~6.6. However, at z>~7 there are as yet only 3 narrowband selected LAEs with spectroscopic confirmations (two…

We report on the statistical analysis of quasar photoevaporation at $z\sim2.2$ by comparing the density of surrounding Ly$\alpha$ Emitters (LAEs) and continuum-selected galaxies, based on the imaging data of Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Subaru…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-26 Yuta Suzuki , Yoshiki Matsuoka , Satoshi Kikuta , Hisakazu Uchiyama , Haruka Kusakabe , Masatoshi Imanishi

Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations have significantly improved over the past several years, and we have already shown that the observed properties of Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at z=3 can be explained well by the massive galaxies in the…

We present UV and Ly$\alpha$ radial surface brightness (SB) profiles of Ly$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) at $z=2.84$ detected with the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) on the Subaru Telescope. The depth of our data, together with the wide field coverage…

Detecting $\rm H_I$ 21cm line in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) suffers from foreground contamination such as Galactic synchrotron and extragalactic radio sources. Cross-correlation between the 21cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Kenji Kubota , Akio. K. Inoue , Kenji Hasegawa , Keitaro Takahashi

Understanding the role of high-redshift protoclusters in cosmic reionization is essential to unveiling the early stages of structure formation. Using deep imaging and spectroscopy from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) JADES Deep Survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-29 Qiong Li , Christopher J. Conselice , Duncan Austin , Tom Harvey , Nathan Adams , Vadim Rusakov , Lewi Westcott

We combine a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation with a very large simulation which follows the growth of large scale structure in a LambdaCDM universe to predict the clustering of Ly-alpha emitters. We find that the clustering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Orsi , C. G. Lacey , C. M. Baugh , L. Infante

We present a new model for high redshift Lyman-Alpha Emitters (LAEs) in the cosmological context which takes into account the resonant scattering of Ly-a photons through expanding gas. The GALICS semi-analytic model provides us with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Thibault Garel , Jérémy Blaizot , Bruno Guiderdoni , Daniel Schaerer , Anne Verhamme , Matthew Hayes