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We investigate the fraction of z ~ 0.3 Lyman alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) which host active galactic nucleus activity, which is typically from 1 - 5% at 2 < z < 6. Using optical spectroscopy of 23 LAEs at 0.2 < z < 0.45 selected with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 Steven L. Finkelstein , Seth H. Cohen , Sangeeta Malhotra , James E. Rhoads , Casey Papovich , Zhenya Zheng , Junxian Wang

Deep narrow-band surveys have revealed a large population of faint Lyman-alpha (Lya) emitters (LAEs) in the distant Universe, but relatively little is known about the most luminous sources ($L_{Ly\alpha}>10^{42.7}$ erg/s;…

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the high-redshift Universe are thought to reside in overdense environments. However, recent works provide controversial results partly due to the use of different techniques and possible suppression of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-21 Satoshi Kikuta , Masatoshi Imanishi , Yoshiki Matsuoka , Yuichi Matsuda , Kazuhiro Shimasaku , Fumiaki Nakata

We discuss the possible origin of the double-peaked profiles recently observed in Lyman-Alpha Emitters (LAEs) at the epoch of reionization ($z \gtrsim 6.5$) from obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN). Combining the extent of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Abraham Loeb

Lyman alpha galaxies at high redshifts offer a powerful probe of both the formation of galaxies and the reionization of the intergalactic medium. Lyman alpha line emission is an efficient tool for identifying young galaxies at high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 James E. Rhoads , Sangeeta Malhotra

We present a physically motivated semi-analytic model to understand the clustering of high redshift Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs). We show that the model parameters constrained by the observed luminosity functions, can be used to predict…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Charles Jose , Raghunathan Srianand , Kandaswamy Subramanian

High-redshift Lyman-alpha blobs (LABs) are an enigmatic class of objects that have been the subject of numerous observational and theoretical investigations. It is of particular interest to determine the dominant power sources for the…

Of the many ways of detecting high redshift galaxies, the selection of objects due to their redshifted Ly-alpha emission has become one of the most successful. But what types of galaxies are selected in this way? Until recently, Ly-alpha…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Kim K. Nilsson , Palle Møller

Context: Narrow-band surveys for Ly-alpha emitters (LAEs) is a powerful tool in detecting high, and very high, redshift galaxies. Even though samples are growing at redshifts z = 3 - 6, the nature of these galaxies is still poorly known.…

Lyman alpha (Lya) emission lines should be attenuated in a neutral intergalactic medium (IGM). Therefore the visibility of Lya emitters at high redshifts can serve as a valuable probe of reionization at about the 50% level. We present an…

We test whether Lyman alpha emitters (LAEs) and Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) can be good tracers of high-z large-scale structures, using the Horizon Run 5 cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. We identify LAEs using the Ly{\alpha} emission…

We present two uniformly observed spectroscopic samples of Ly-alpha emitters (LAEs) (127 at z = 5.7 and 82 at z = 6.6), which we use to investigate the evolution of the LAE population at these redshifts. The observations cover a large field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-15 A. Songaila , L. L. Cowie , A. J. Barger , E. M. Hu , A. J. Taylor

The Lyman-alpha emitters found at z ~ 4.5 by the Large Area Lyman Alpha (LALA) survey have high equivalent widths in the Lyman-alpha line, which can be produced by either narrow-lined active galactic nuclei (AGNs) or by stellar populations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. X. Wang , J. E. Rhoads , S. Malhotra , S. Dawson , D. Stern , A. Dey , T. M. Heckman , C. A. Norman , H. Spinrad

We construct a sample of low-redshift Ly-alpha emission-line selected sources from GALEX grism spectroscopy of nine deep fields to study the role of Ly-alpha emission in galaxy populations with cosmic time. Our final sample consists of 119…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 L. L. Cowie , A. J. Barger , E. M. Hu

Motivated by the claimed detection of a large population of faint active galactic nuclei (AGN) at high redshift, recent studies have proposed models in which AGN contribute significantly to the z > 4 H I ionizing background. In some models,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-27 Anson D'Aloisio , Phoebe R. Upton Sanderbeck , Matthew McQuinn , Hy Trac , Paul R. Shapiro

A new but rare sample of spatially extended emission line nebulae, nicknamed "Green Beans", was discovered at z~0.3 thanks to strong [OIII] emission, and subsequently shown to be local cousins of the Lyman-alpha (Lya) nebulae found at high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-31 Moire K. M. Prescott , Kelly N. Sanderson

Recent wide-field integral field spectroscopy has revealed the detailed properties of high redshift Lyman-alpha (Lya) nebulae, most often targeted due to the presence of an active galactic nucleus (AGN). Here, we use VLT/MUSE to resolve the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Kelly N. Sanderson , Moire K. M. Prescott , Lise Christensen , Johan Fynbo , Palle Møller

We present an automatic method based on machine-learning convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture to detect Lyman alpha emitters (LAE) hidden in the Data Release 1 spectroscopic dataset of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument…

A majority of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the local Universe are classified as low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN), having bolometric luminosities $\lesssim 10^{42} \ \mathrm{erg \ s^{-1}}$. Although high-energy gamma-ray emission is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Chris Karwin , Nikita Khatiya , Margot Boughelilba , Xiurui Zhao , Anita Reimer , Marco Ajello

We present an estimate of the space density of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) at z=3. Combining deep X-ray data with Lyman Break Galaxy (LBG) colour-selection in the rest-frame UV makes for highly efficient identification of AGN in a narrow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Nandra , E. S. Laird , C. C. Steidel
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