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We introduce a new project to understand helium reionization using fully coupled $N$-body, hydrodynamics, and radiative transfer simulations. This project aims to capture correctly the thermal history of the intergalactic medium (IGM) as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Paul La Plante , Hy Trac

We present a comprehensive analysis of HI absorption around 96 lya emitters (LAEs) at $z\approx3.3$ (median lya luminosity $\approx10^{42}$ erg.s$^{-1}$). These LAEs were identified within 8 MUSE fields, each $1'\times1'$ on the sky and…

We present a method for studying the proximity effect and the density structure around redshift z=2-3 quasars. It is based on the probability distribution of Lyman-alpha pixel optical depths and its evolution with redshift. We validate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 E. Rollinde , R. Srianand , T. Theuns , P. Petitjean , H. Chand

We measure the clustering of Lyman Alpha Emitting galaxies (LAEs) selected from the One-hundred-square-degree DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN) survey, with spectroscopic follow-up from Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We use…

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is designed to detect and measure the redshifts of more than one million Ly$\alpha$ emitting galaxies (LAEs) between $1.88 < z < 3.52$. In addition to its cosmological measurements,…

We present a quantitative model of Lyman-alpha (Ly-alpha) emission throughout cosmic history and determine the prospects for intensity mapping of spatial fluctuations in the Ly-alpha signal. Since i) our model assumes at z>6 the minimum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Anthony Pullen , Olivier Dore , Jamie Bock

We investigate the clustering and halo properties of $\sim 5000$ Ly$\alpha$-selected emission line galaxies (LAEs) from the Slicing COSMOS 4K (SC4K) and from archival NB497 imaging of SA22 split in 15 discrete redshift slices between $z…

We investigate the large-scale structure of Lyman-alpha emission intensity in the Universe at redshifts z=2-3.5 using cross-correlation techniques. Our Lya emission samples are spectra of BOSS Luminous Red Galaxies from Data Release 12 with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Rupert A. C. Croft , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Zheng Zheng , Michael Blomqvist , Matthew Pieri

The intense radiation emitted by luminous quasars dramatically alters the ionization state of their surrounding IGM. This so-called proximity effect extends out to tens of Mpc, and manifests as large coherent regions of enhanced…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Tobias M. Schmidt , Joseph F. Hennawi , Khee-Gan Lee , Zarija Lukic , Jose Onorbe , Martin White

Lyman $\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) is now routinely used as a tool for studying high-redshift galaxies and its resonant nature means it can trace neutral hydrogen around star-forming galaxies. Integral field spectrograph measurements of…

Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies can be used to study cosmological reionization, because a neutral intergalactic medium scatters Lyman-alpha photons into diffuse halos whose surface brightness falls below typical survey detection limits. Here…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 James E. Rhoads , Pascale Hibon , Sangeeta Malhotra , Michael Cooper , Benjamin Weiner

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…

Using galaxy Ly$\alpha$ emission to probe reionization relies on establishing baseline expectations for its detectability in the absence of attenuation by neutral gas in the IGM. Towards this end, the growing numbers of $z \sim 5$--6…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-31 Seyedazim Hashemi , George D. Becker , Yongda Zhu , Hui Hong

Ionizing sources embedded in the neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) before cosmological reionization generate discrete HII regions. We show that a sufficiently bright quasar (for example, one tenth as luminous as that recently discovered by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Renyue Cen , Zoltan Haiman

We present diffuse Lyman-alpha halos (LAHs) identified in the composite Subaru narrowband images of 100-3600 Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) at z=2.2, 3.1, 3.7, 5.7, and 6.6. First, we carefully examine potential artifacts mimicking LAHs that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Rieko Momose , Masami Ouchi , Kimihiko Nakajima , Yoshiaki Ono , Takatoshi Shibuya , Kazuhiro Shimasaku , Suraphong Yuma , Masao Mori , Masayuki Umemura

We study the visibility of the Lyman Alpha (Lya) emission line during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Combining galactic outflow models with large-scale semi-numeric simulations of reionization, we quantify the probability distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Mark Dijkstra , Andrei Mesinger , Stuart Wyithe

We measure the large-scale cross-correlation of quasars with the Lyman \alpha\ forest absorption in redshift space, using ~ 60000 quasar spectra from Data Release 9 (DR9) of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). The…

We present a spectroscopic survey of Ly$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) at $z\approx5.7$ using the multi-object spectrograph M2FS on the Magellan Clay telescope. This is part of a high-redshift galaxy survey carried out in several well-studied deep…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-04 Yuanhang Ning , Linhua Jiang , Zhen-Ya Zheng , Jin Wu , Fuyan Bian , Eiichi Egami , Xiaohui Fan , Luis C. Ho , Yue Shen , Ran Wang , Xue-Bing Wu

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$\alpha$…