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As Lyman-alpha photons are scattered by neutral hydrogen, a change with redshift in the Lyman-alpha equivalent width distribution of distant galaxies offers a promising probe of the degree of ionization in the intergalactic medium and hence…

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We examine the effect of Lyman continuum photons on the 21 cm background in the high-redshift universe. The brightness temperature of this transition is determined by the spin temperature T_s, which describes the relative populations of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jonathan R. Pritchard , Steven R. Furlanetto

We investigate the effects of dust on Ly{\alpha} photons emergent from an optically thick medium by solving the integro-differential equation of the radiative transfer of resonant photons. To solve the differential equations numerically we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Yang Yang , Ishani Roy , Chi-Wang Shu , Li-Zhi Fang

We report a quantitative study of the escape of Lyman-alpha photons from an inhomogeneous optically thick medium that mimics the structure of damped Lyman-alpha absorbers. Modeling the optically thick disk with 3 components (massive stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Puyoo , L. Ben-Jaffel

We propose to infer ionising continuum leaking properties of galaxies by looking at their Lyman-alpha line profiles. We carry out Lyman-alpha radiation transfer calculations in two models of HII regions which are porous to ionising…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Verhamme , I. Orlitova , D. Schaerer , M. Hayes

A crucial physical quantity in determining the 21-cm signal during cosmic dawn is the inhomogeneous background of Ly$\alpha$ photons originating from the first galaxies. As these photons travel through the intergalactic medium, their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Jordan Flitter , Julian B. Muñoz , Andrei Mesinger

We present two novel additions to the semi-analytic solution of Lyman $\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) radiative transfer in spherical geometry: (1) implementation of the correct boundary condition for a steady source, and (2) solution of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 B. Connor McClellan , Shane Davis , Phil Arras

We demonstrate the redshift-evolution of the spectral profile of H i Lyman-alpha (Ly{\alpha}) emission from star-forming galaxies. In this first study we pay special attention to the contribution of blueshifted emission. At redshift z =…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-18 Matthew J. Hayes , Axel Runnholm , Max Gronke , Claudia Scarlata

The Lya line transfer in an extremely thick medium of neutral hydrogen is investigated by adopting an accelerating scheme in our Monte Carlo code to skip a large number of core or resonant scatterings. This scheme reduces computing time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sang-Hyeon Ahn , Hee-Won Lee , Hyung Mok Lee

Constraining the escape fraction of Lyman Continuum (LyC) photons from high-redshift galaxies is crucial to understanding reionization. Recent observations have demonstrated that various characteristics of the Ly$\alpha$ emission line…

We perform Lyman-alpha radiative transfer calculations for reproducing Lyman-alpha properties of star-forming galaxies at high redshifts. We model a galaxy as a halo in which the density distributions of Lyman-alpha sources and H I plus…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Hyunmi Song , Kwang-Il Seon , Ho Seong Hwang

A large number of high-redshift galaxies have been discovered via their narrow-band Lya line or broad-band continuum colors in recent years. The nature of the escaping process of photons from these early galaxies is crucial to understanding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-16 Hidenobu Yajima , Yuexing Li , Qirong Zhu , Tom Abel , Caryl Gronwall , Robin Ciardullo

Models are presented for the Lyman alpha emission of dusty high-redshift galaxies by combining the Press-Schechter formalism with a treatment of the inhomogeneous dust distribution inside galaxies. It is found that the amount of Lyman alpha…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zoltan Haiman , Marco Spaans

We calibrate here cosmological radiative transfer simulation with ATON/RAMSES with a range of measurements of the Lyman alpha opacity from QSO absorption spectra. We find the Lyman alpha opacity to be very sensitive to the exact timing of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Jonathan Chardin , Martin G. Haehnelt , Dominique Aubert , Ewald Puchwein

The spectra of the first galaxies and quasars in the Universe should be strongly absorbed shortward of their rest-frame Lyman-alpha wavelength by neutral hydrogen (HI) in the intervening intergalactic medium. However, the Lyman-alpha line…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Abraham Loeb , George Rybicki

The Lyman alpha emission line is an essential diagnostic tool for probing galaxy formation and evolution. Not only is it commonly the strongest observable line from high-redshift galaxies but from its shape detailed information about its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Peter Laursen , Jesper Sommer-Larsen , Anja C. Andersen

We study the average Ly$\alpha$ emission associated with high-$z$ strong (log $N$(H I) $\ge$ 21) damped Ly$\alpha$ systems (DLAs). We report Ly$\alpha$ luminosities ($L_{\rm Ly\alpha}$) for the full as well as various sub-samples based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Ravi Joshi , Raghunathan Srianand , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Patrick Petitjean

Lyman-$\alpha$ photons enable the cosmic dawn 21-cm signal through a process called the Wouthuysen-Field effect. An accurate model of the signal in this epoch hinges on the accuracy of the computation of the Ly$\alpha$ coupling, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-18 Shikhar Mittal , Girish Kulkarni , Thibault Garel

We review the imaging and spectroscopic properties of the Lyman alpha emission in starburst galaxies. The Lyman alpha photons escape is largely driven by kinematical and orientation effects related to the presence of large scale expanding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Kunth , M. Hayes , G. Ostlin , J. M. Mas-Hesse , C. Leitherer , A. Petrosian

Using the CoDa II simulation, we study the Ly$\alpha$ transmissivity of the intergalactic medium (IGM) during reionization. At $z>6$, a typical galaxy without an active galactic nucleus fails to form a proximity zone around itself due to…