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We report a new technique to select 1.6<z<4.6 dusty Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs), over a third of which are `blobs' (LABs) with emission extended on scales of 30-100kpc. Combining data from the NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)…

We use very large cosmological Smoothed-Particle-Hydrodynamics simulations to study the properties of high redshift Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs). We identify star-forming galaxies at z=3.1 in a cosmological volume of 100 h^-1Mpc on a side.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Ikkoh Shimizu , Naoki Yoshida , Takashi Okamoto

The extensive ground-based spectroscopy campaign from the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey (VUDS), and the deep multi-wavelength photometry in three very well observed extragalactic fields (ECDFS, COSMOS, VVDS), allow us to investigate physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 Nimish P. Hathi , Olivier Le Fevre , the VUDS team

We present a systematic study of merging galaxies among Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) using JWST/NIRCam high-resolution imaging data. From a large sample of 817 spectroscopically confirmed LAEs at $3<z<7$ in the GOODS-S field, we identify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-01 Jian Ren , F. S. Liu , Nan Li , Qi Song , Pinsong Zhao , Qifan Cui , Yubin Li , Hao Mo , Guanghuan Wang , Hassen M. Yesuf , Weichen Wang

The physical processes which make a galaxy a Lyman Alpha Emitter have been extensively studied for the past 25 years. However, the correlations between physical and morphological properties of galaxies and the strength of the Ly$\alpha$…

From multi-wavelength observations of LAEs,we know that while many LAEs appear to be young and less massive,a noticeable fraction of LAEs possess much older populations of stars and larger stellar mass.How these two classes of LAEs are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ikkoh Shimizu , Masayuki Umemura

We discovered a sample of 250 Ly-Alpha emitting (LAE) galaxies at z=2.1 in an ultra-deep 3727 A narrow-band MUSYC image of the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South. LAEs were selected to have rest-frame equivalent widths (EW) > 20 A and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 L. Guaita , E. Gawiser , N. Padilla , H. Francke , N. A. Bond , C. Gronwall , R. Ciardullo , J. J. Feldmeier , S. Sinawa , G. A. Blanc , S. Virani

We present six strongly gravitationally lensed Ly-$\alpha$ Emitters (LAEs) at $z\sim4-5$ with HST narrowband imaging isolating Ly-$\alpha$. Through complex radiative transfer Ly-$\alpha$ encodes information about the spatial distribution…

We studied the clustering properties and multiwavelength spectral energy distributions of a complete sample of 162 Ly Alpha-Emitting (LAE) galaxies at z=3.1 discovered in deep narrow-band MUSYC imaging of the Extended Chandra Deep Field…

We study the Ly$\alpha$ escape fraction, $f_{\mathrm{esc}}^{\mathrm{Ly\alpha}}$ of Ly$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) identified by Subaru/HSC narrowband imaging at $z = 2.2-6.6$, using publicly available deep imaging data from HST and JWST. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-17 Shunta Shimizu , Nobunari Kashikawa , Satoshi Kikuta , Yoshihiro Takeda , Junya Arita , Ryo Emori , Kentaro Koretomo

We have analyzed a sample of LBGs from z =3.5 to z=6 selected from the GOODS-S field as B,V and i-dropouts, and with spectroscopic observations showing that they have the Lyalpha line in emission. Our main aim is to investigate their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Pentericci , A. Grazian , A. Fontana , M. Castellano , E. Giallongo , S. Salimbeni , P. Santini

Strong Lyman-alpha emission is a signpost of young stars and the absence of dust and thus indicates young galaxies. To find such a population of young galaxies at z=4.5 we started the Large Area Lyman Alpha survey (LALA). This survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sangeeta Malhotra , James Rhoads , Arjun Dey , Buell Jannuzi , Daniel Stern , Hyron Spinrad

We present a sample of 33 spectroscopically confirmed z ~ 3.1 Ly$\alpha$-emitting galaxies (LAEs) in the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field. This paper details the narrow-band survey we conducted to detect the LAE sample, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Emily M. McLinden , James E. Rhoads , Sangeeta Malhotra , Steven L. Finkelstein , Mark L. A. Richardson , Brent Smith , Vithal S. Tilvi

Context: Ly-alpha-emitters have proven to be excellent probes of faint, star-forming galaxies in the high redshift universe. However, although the sample of known emitters is increasingly growing, their nature (e.g. stellar masses, ages,…

In this work we analyze the physical properties of a sample of 56 spectroscopically selected star-forming (SF) Ly$\alpha$ emitting galaxies at 2.0$\lesssim$z$\lesssim$3.5 using both a spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting procedure…

Abundances of N, Si, S, and Fe for 45 damped Lyman alpha systems (DLAs) have been compiled and detailed one-zone chemical evolution models have been constructed for 30 of them. Assuming continuous star formation, we found that final…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. B. C. Henry , Jason X. Prochaska

We extend a previous study of Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) based on hydrodynamical cosmological simulations, by including two physical processes important for LAEs: (a) Lyman Alpha and continuum luminosities produced by cooling of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Pratika Dayal , Andrea Ferrara , Alexandro Saro

The Aim of our study is to understand the variety of observed Lyman-alpha (Lya) line profiles and strengths in Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs) and Lya emitters (LAEs), the physical parameters governing them, and hence deriving constraints on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anne Verhamme , Daniel Schaerer , Hakim Atek , Christian Tapken

Lyman $\alpha$ emission is highly sensitive to dust and neutral hydrogen and is therefore expected to be strongly suppressed in dusty or gas-rich galaxies during the epoch of reionization (EoR). Nevertheless, numerous moderately dusty…

We present a rest-frame ultraviolet morphological analysis of 108 z=2.1 Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDF-S) and compare it to a similar sample of 171 LAEs at z=3.1. Using Hubble Space Telescope…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Nicholas Bond , Eric Gawiser , Lucia Guaita , Nelson Padilla , Caryl Gronwall , Robin Ciardullo , Kamson Lai