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Aims: We aim to study the effects of an inhomogeneous interstellar medium (ISM) on the strength and the shape of the Lyman alpha (Lya) line in starburst galaxies. Methods: Using our 3D Monte Carlo Lya radiation transfer code, we study the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Florent Duval , Daniel Schaerer , Göran Östlin , Peter Laursen

The large cross-section of the Lyman alpha (Lya) line makes it a sensitive probe of the ionization state of the intergalactic medium (IGM). Here we present the most complete study to date of the IGM Lya opacity, and its application to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Andrei Mesinger , Aycin Aykutalp , Eros Vanzella , Laura Pentericci , Andrea Ferrara , Mark Dijkstra

We calculate the impact of the intergalactic medium (IGM) on the observed Lyman alpha lines (hereafter Lya) emitted by galaxies in an ionised IGM at z>4. Our model accounts for gas clumping in the IGM and for the fact that high-redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark Dijkstra , Adam Lidz , Stuart Wyithe

We investigate the relationship between the Lyman-alpha (Lya) forest transmission in the intergalactic medium (IGM) and the environmental density of galaxies, focusing on its implications for the measurement of ionizing radiation escape…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-24 C. Scarlata , W. Hu , M. J. Hayes , S. Taamoli , A. A. Khostovan , C. M. Casey , A. L. Faisst , J. S. Kartaltepe , Y. Lin , M. Salvato , M. Rafelski

Lyman-Alpha (Lya) photons emitted in star-forming galaxies undergo complex radiative transfer through the interstellar (ISM), circumgalactic (CGM), and intergalactic medium (IGM), imprinting characteristic signatures on their observed line…

The observed Lyman-Alpha (Lya) line profile is a convolution of the complex Lya radiative transfer taking place in the interstellar, circumgalactic and intergalactic medium (ISM, CGM, and IGM, respectively). Discerning the different…

We present simulations of Lyman-Alpha radiation transfer in an isolated disk galaxy with a turbulence sub-grid model, multi-phase interstellar medium and detailed star formation modelling. We investigate the influence of inclination on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-20 Christoph Behrens , Harald Braun

Lyman-alpha (Lya) photons that escape the interstellar medium of star-forming galaxies may be resonantly scattered by neutral hydrogen atoms in the circumgalactic and intergalactic media, thereby increasing the angular extent of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Zheng Zheng , Renyue Cen , David Weinberg , Hy Trac , Jordi Miralda-Escude

Lyman-alpha (Ly{\alpha}) photons from ionizing sources and cooling radiation undergo a complex resonant scattering process that generates unique spectral signatures in high-redshift galaxies. We present a detailed Ly{\alpha} radiative…

We combine a cosmological reionization simulation with box size of 100Mpc/h on a side and a Monte Carlo Lyman-alpha (Lya) radiative transfer code to model Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) at z~5.7. The model introduces Lya radiative transfer as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Zheng Zheng , Renyue Cen , Hy Trac , Jordi Miralda-Escude

In the near future galaxy surveys will target Lyman alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) to unveil the nature of the dark energy. It has been suggested that the observability of LAEs is coupled to the large scale properties of the intergalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-27 S. Gurung-Lopez , Alvaro A. Orsi , Silvia Bonoli , Nelson Padilla , Cedric G. Lacey , Carlton M. Baugh

As a result of resonant scatterings off hydrogen atoms, Lyman-alpha (Lya) emission from star-forming galaxies provides a probe of the (hardly isotropic) neutral gas environment around them. We study the effect of the environmental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Zheng Zheng , Joshua Wallace

We study the clustering properties of z~5.7 Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) in a cosmological reionization simulation with a full Lya radiative transfer calculation. Lya radiative transfer substantially modifies the intrinsic Lya emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Zheng Zheng , Renyue Cen , Hy Trac , Jordi Miralda-Escude

Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) spectra provide insights into the small-scale structure and kinematics of neutral hydrogen (HI) within galaxies as well as the ionization state of the intergalactic medium (IGM). The former defines the intrinsic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-21 Chris Byrohl , Max Gronke

The vast majority of star-forming galaxies are surrounded by large reservoirs of gas ejected from the interstellar medium. Ultraviolet absorption and emission lines represent powerful diagnostics to constrain the cool phase of these…

We study the intergalactic transmission of radiation in the vicinity of the Ly{\alpha} wavelength. Simulating sightlines through the intergalactic medium (IGM) in detailed cosmological hydrosimulations, the impact of the IGM on the shape of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Peter Laursen , Jesper Sommer-Larsen , Alexei O. Razoumov

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

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

Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) emitting galaxies are powerful tools to probe the late stages of cosmic reionization. The observed sudden drop in Ly$\alpha$ fraction at $z>6$ is often interpreted as a sign of reionization, since the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Sultan Hassan , Max Gronke

The decline in abundance of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) emitting galaxies at $z \gtrsim 6$ is a powerful and commonly used probe to constrain the progress of cosmic reionization. We use the CoDaII simulation, which is a radiation…

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