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We investigate if systems of multiple Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) can serve as a proxy for dark matter halo mass, assess how their radiative properties relate to the underlying halo conditions, and explore the physics of star formation…

Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) are star-forming galaxies that efficiently probe the spatial distribution of galaxies in the high redshift universe. The spatial clustering of LAEs reflects the properties of their individual host dark matter…

The baryons inside high-redshift halos with virial temperatures above T=10^4 K cool radiatively as they condense inside dark matter potential wells. We show that the release of the gravitational binding energy, over the halo assembly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Zoltan Haiman , Marco Spaans , Eliot Quataert

We present statistical properties of diffuse Lyman-alpha halos (LAHs) around high-$z$ star-forming galaxies with large Subaru samples of Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) at $z=2.2$. We make subsamples defined by the physical quantities of LAEs'…

We present the median-stacked Lyman-$\alpha$ surface brightness profile of 968 spectroscopically selected Lyman-$\alpha$ emitting galaxies (LAEs) at redshifts $1.9<z<3.5$ in the early data of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy…

Lyman- and Werner-band absorption of molecular hydrogen (H$_2$) is detected in $\sim$50% of low redshift ($z<1$) DLAs/sub-DLAs with $N$(H$_2$) > 10$^{14.4}$ cm$^{-2}$. However the true origin(s) of the H$_2$ bearing gas remain elusive. Here…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-01 Sowgat Muzahid , Glenn G. Kacprzak , Jane C. Charlton , Christopher W. Churchill

The standard $\rm \Lambda$CDM cosmological model predicts that a large amount of diffuse neutral hydrogen distributes in cosmic filaments, which could be mapped through Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) emission observations. We use the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-29 Yizhou Liu , Liang Gao , Shihong Liao , Kai Zhu

Determining the spatial distribution and intrinsic physical properties of neutral hydrogen on cosmological scales is one of the key goals of next-generation radio surveys. We use the EAGLE galaxy formation simulations to assess the…

We present results of our numerical simulation of three H2-bearing damped Lyman alpha absorbers (DLAs) in the redshift interval ~ 2-3. The systems we have modelled are the DLAs at zabs = 2.3377 towards the quasar LBQS 1232+0815, at zabs =…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 Katherine Rawlins , Gargi Shaw , Raghunathan Srianand

(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

We present a semi-analytical model of star formation which explains simultaneously the observed UV luminosity function of high redshift Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) and luminosity functions of Lyman-alpha emitters. We consider both models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Saumyadip Samui , Raghunathan Srianand , Kandaswamy Subramanian

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

We investigate the stellar populations of Lyman alpha emitters (LAEs) at z=5.7 and 6.6 in a 0.65 deg^2 sky of the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey (SXDS) Field, using deep images taken with Subaru/Suprime-Cam, UKIRT/WFCAM, and Spitzer/IRAC. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yoshiaki Ono , Masami Ouchi , Kazuhiro Shimasaku , James Dunlop , Duncan Farrah , Ross McLure , Sadanori Okamura

(abridged) We report rest-frame submillimeter H2O emission line observations of 11 HyLIRGs/ULIRGs at z~2-4 selected among the brightest lensed galaxies discovered in the Herschel-ATLAS. Using the IRAM NOEMA, we have detected 14 new H2O…

We study the physical properties of a homogeneous sample of 157 optically-thick absorption line systems at redshifts ~1.8-4.4, selected from a high-dispersion spectroscopic survey of Lyman limit systems (LLSs). By means of multiple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-09 Michele Fumagalli , John M. O'Meara , J. Xavier Prochaska

We characterize the importance of metallicity on the presence of molecular hydrogen in damped Lyman-alpha (DLA) systems. We construct a representative sample of 18 DLA/sub-DLA systems with log N(HI)>19.5 at high redshift (zabs>1.8) with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Patrick Petitjean , C. Ledoux , P. Noterdaeme , R. Srianand

[Abridged] The detection of the rotational lines of CO in proto-galaxies in the early Universe provides one of the most promising ways of probing the fundamental physical properties of a galaxy, such as its size, dynamical mass, gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. R. Greve , J. Sommer-Larsen

We present an analysis of the spatial clustering of 695 Ly$\alpha$-emitting galaxies (LAE) in the MUSE-Wide survey. All objects have spectroscopically confirmed redshifts in the range $3.3<z<6$. We employ the K-estimator of Adelberger et…

We study the properties of Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) and Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at z=3-6 using cosmological SPH simulations. We investigate two simple scenarios for explaining the observed Ly-a and rest-frame UV luminosity functions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kentaro Nagamine , Masami Ouchi , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

Atomic hydrogen (HI) serves a crucial role in connecting galactic-scale properties such as star formation with the large-scale structure of the Universe. While recent numerical simulations have successfully matched the observed covering…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-16 Lucas Tortora , Robert Feldmann , Mauro Bernardini , Claude-André Faucher-Giguère