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A significant fraction of Lyman Alpha (Lya) emitting galaxies (LAEs) at z> 5.7 have rest-frame equivalent widths (EW) greater than ~100 Angstrom. However only a small fraction of the Lya flux produced by a galaxy is transmitted through the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Mark Dijkstra , Stuart Wyithe

Recent observations have discovered a population of extended Lya sources, dubbed Lyman-alpha blobs (LABs), at high redshift z ~ 3 - 6.6. These LABs typically have a luminosity of L ~ 10^42-10^44 erg/s, and a size of tens of kiloparsecs,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hidenobu Yajima , Yuexing Li , Qirong Zhu

We present a new theoretical model for the luminosity functions (LFs) of Lyman alpha (Lya) emitting galaxies in the framework of hierarchical galaxy formation. We extend a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation that reproduces a number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi , Tomonori Totani , Masahiro Nagashima

In this work, I investigate the properties of Lyman limit systems (LLSs) using state-of-the-art zoom-in cosmological galaxy formation simulations with on the fly radiative transfer, which includes both the cosmic UV background (UVB) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-25 Denis Erkal

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

We study a sample of 14 spectroscopically confirmed Ly$\alpha$ Emitters (LAEs) in the late era of reionization (at redshift $z\approx6$) based on the JWST/NIRCam imaging dataset. These LAEs with high Ly$\alpha$ luminosity of $L$(Ly$\alpha$)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-07 Yuanhang Ning , Zheng Cai , Xiaojing Lin , Zhen-Ya Zheng , Xiaotong Feng , Mingyu Li , Qiong Li , Daniele Spinoso , Yunjing Wu , Haibin Zhang

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

We compare the physical and morphological properties of z ~ 2 Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) identified in the HETDEX Pilot Survey and narrow band studies with those of z ~ 2 optical emission line galaxies (oELGs) identified via HST…

We present a study of seventeen LAEs at redshift 2$<z<$3 gravitationally lensed by massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) at a mean redshift of approximately 0.5. Using a fully Bayesian grid-based technique, we model the gravitational lens mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-12 E. Ritondale , M. W. Auger , S. Vegetti , J. P. McKean

Understanding Ly$\alpha$ emitting galaxies (LAEs) can be a key to reveal cosmic reionization and galaxy formation in the early Universe. Based on halo merger trees and Ly$\alpha$ radiation transfer calculations, we model redshift evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 Hidenobu Yajima , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Kenji Hasegawa

The mechanisms of Ly$\alpha$ photon escape are key to understanding galaxy evolution and cosmic reionization, yet remain poorly understood. We investigate the UV-continuum sizes of 23 Ly$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) at Cosmic Noon ($1.7 < z <…

We present a rest-frame ultraviolet analysis of ~120 z~3.1 Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDF-S). Using Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images taken as part of the Galaxy Evolution From Morphology and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 N. A. Bond , E. Gawiser , C. Gronwall , R. Ciardullo , M. Altmann , K. Schawinski

We investigate how damped Lyman-$\alpha$ absorbers (DLAs) at z ~ 2-3, detected in large optical spectroscopic surveys of quasars, trace the population of star-forming galaxies. Building on previous results, we construct a model based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 J. -K. Krogager , P. Møller , L. B. Christensen , P. Noterdaeme , J. P. U. Fynbo , W. Freudling

We present Keck/LRIS optical spectra of 17 Lya-emitting galaxies and one Lyman break galaxy at z=4.5 discovered in the Large Area Lyman Alpha (LALA) survey. The survey has identified a sample of ~350 candidate Lya-emitting galaxies at z=4.5…

We present Ly $\alpha$ imaging of 45 low redshift star-forming galaxies observed with the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxies have been selected to have moderate to high star formation rates using far-ultraviolet (FUV) luminosity and \ha…

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$\alpha$…

Following our first detection reported in Izotov et al. (2016), we present the detection of Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation of four other compact star-forming galaxies observed with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) onboard the Hubble…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 Y. I. Izotov , D. Schaerer , T. X. Thuan , G. Worseck , N. G. Guseva , I. Orlitova , A. Verhamme

Extended Lyman-alpha emission is now commonly detected around high redshift galaxies through stacking and even on individual basis. Despite recent observational advances, the physical origin of these Lyman-alpha halos (LAHs), as well as…

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 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…