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We present the results of an optical spectroscopic study of 12 GALEX-discovered star-forming Lyman alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) at z ~ 0.3. We measure the emission line fluxes from these galaxies by fitting their observed spectra to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Steven L. Finkelstein , Seth H. Cohen , John Moustakas , Sangeeta Malhotra , James E. Rhoads , Casey Papovich

We model the high redshift (z > 5) Lyman-$\alpha$ emitting (LAE) galaxy population using the empirical rest-frame equivalent width distribution. We calibrate to the observed luminosity function and angular correlation function at z = 5.7 as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-19 Lewis H. Weinberger , Martin G. Haehnelt , Girish Kulkarni

(Abridged) We extend our previous studies aimed at modeling Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) to the second population of high redshift sources, Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs), with the final goal of investigating the physical relationship between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Pratika Dayal , Andrea Ferrara

Recent observations imply that the observed number counts of Lya Emitters (LAEs) evolved significantly between z=5.7 and z=6.5. It has been suggested that this was due to a rapid evolution in the ionisation state, and hence transmission of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mark Dijkstra , Stuart Wyithe , Zoltan Haiman

We build a physical model for high-redshift Lyman Alpha emitters (LAEs) by coupling state of the art cosmological simulations (GADGET-2) with a dust model and a radiative transfer code (pCRASH). We post-process the cosmological simulation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-07 A. Hutter , P. Dayal , A. M. Partl , V. Müller

The Ly-alpha luminosity function (LF) of high-redshift Ly-alpha emitters (LAEs) is one of the few observables of the re-ionization epoch accessible to date with 8-10 m class telescopes. The evolution with redshift allows one to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Hibon , J. -G. Cuby , J. Willis , B. Clément , C. Lidman , S. Arnouts , J. -P. Kneib , C. J. Willott , C. Marmo , H. McCracken

We present a spectroscopically confirmed sample of Lyman alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) at z ~ 4.5 in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS), which we combine with a sample of z ~ 4.5 LAEs from the Large Area Lyman Alpha (LALA)…

There has been great progress in recent years in discovering star forming galaxies at high redshifts (z>5), close to the epoch of reionization of the intergalactic medium (IGM). The WFC3 and ACS cameras on the Hubble Space Telescope have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Andrew Bunker

We made a narrowband NB973 (bandwidth of 200A at 9755A) imaging of the Subaru Deep Field (SDF) and found two z=7 Lyman alpha emitter (LAE) candidates down to NB973=24.9. Carrying out deep follow-up spectroscopy, we identified one of them as…

The detection of Lyman-$\alpha$ emitting galaxies (LAEs) puts severe constraints on the reionization history. In this Paper we derive the properties of very high-$z$ LAEs predicted in the only two reionization scenarios shown in a previous…

Reionization is an inhomogeneous process, thought to begin in small ionized bubbles of the intergalactic medium (IGM) around overdense regions of galaxies. Recent Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) studies during the epoch of reionization show…

We combine high resolution hydrodynamical simulations with an intermediate resolution, dark matter only simulation and an analytical model for the growth of ionized regions to estimate the large scale distribution and redshift evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Ewald Puchwein , Martin G. Haehnelt , James S. Bolton

Near-infrared observations of Lyman-break galaxies at redshifts z~3 are beginning to provide constraints on ages, star-formation histories, dust content, metallicities, and stellar masses. At present, uncertainties of more than an order of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Henry C. Ferguson , Mark Dickinson , Casey Papovich

With JWST, it is now possible to use Lyman-Alpha (Ly$\alpha$) emission from galaxies beyond z>8 to trace neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) as the Universe became reionized. However, observed Ly$\alpha$ emission is scattered…

We present the results of a stellar population analysis of 30 Lyman alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) at z ~ 0.3, previously discovered with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX). With a few exceptions, we can accurately fit model spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Steven L. Finkelstein , Seth H. Cohen , Sangeeta Malhotra , James E. Rhoads

We present Lya luminosity function (LF), clustering measurements, and Lya line profiles based on the largest sample, to date, of 207 Lya emitters (LAEs) at z=6.6 on the 1-deg^2 sky of Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey (SXDS) field. Our z=6.6…

We present a new theoretical model for the luminosity functions (LFs) of Lyman alpha (Lya) emitting galaxies in the framework of hierarchical galaxy formation. We extend a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation that reproduces a number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi , Tomonori Totani , Masahiro Nagashima

The cosmic ionizing emissivity from star-forming galaxies has long been anchored to UV luminosity functions. Here we introduce an emissivity framework based on Ly$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs), which naturally hones in on the subset of galaxies…

We explore the properties of high-redshift Lyman-alpha emitters (LAE), and their link with the Lyman-Break galaxy population (LBG), using a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation that takes into account resonant scattering of Lya photons…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Garel , J. Blaizot , B. Guiderdoni , L. Michel-Dansac , M. Hayes , A. Verhamme