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Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a promising approach to study star formation and the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies by measuring the aggregate line emission from the entire galaxy population. In this work, we develop a simple yet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Guochao Sun , Brandon S. Hensley , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré , Paolo Serra

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

(Abridged). We aim at bridging the gap between absorption selected and emission selected galaxies at z~3 by probing the faint end of the luminosity function of star-forming galaxies at z~3. We have performed narrow-band imaging in three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-20 L. F. Grove , J. P. U. Fynbo , C. Ledoux , M. Limousin , P. Moller , K. Nilsson , B. Thomsen

We show the effectiveness of strong lensing in the characterisation of Lyman continuum emission from faint L<~0.1L* star-forming galaxies at redshift >~ 3. Past observations of L>~L* galaxies at redshift >~3 have provided upper limits of…

ALMA observations have detected extended ($\simeq 10$ kpc) [C II] halos around high-redshift ($z \gtrsim 5$) star-forming galaxies. If such extended structures are common, they may have an impact on the line intensity mapping (LIM) signal.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-28 Meng Zhang , Andrea Ferrara , Bin Yue

Intensity mapping is now becoming a useful tool to study the large-scale structure of the universe through spatial variations in the integrated emission from galaxies and the intergalactic medium. We study intensity mapping of the H-alpha…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-15 Yan Gong , Asantha Cooray , Marta B. Silva , Michael Zemcov , Chang Feng , Mario G. Santos , Olivier Dore , Xuelei Chen

We report the first space-based very deep near-infrared continuum observations of a uniform sample of z = 6.5 galaxies with log(L(L_alpha)) = 42.5 - 43 erg/s selected from narrow-band line searches and with spectroscopically confirmed Ly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Lennox L. Cowie , Esther M. Hu , Antoinette Songaila

The abundance of cold molecular gas plays a crucial role in models of galaxy evolution. While deep spectroscopic surveys of CO emission lines have been a primary tool for measuring this abundance, the difficulty of these observations has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Ryan P. Keenan , Garrett K. Keating , Daniel P. Marrone

Forthcoming measurements of the line-intensity mapping (LIM) power spectrum (PS) are expected to provide valuable constraints on astrophysical and cosmological quantities. We focus on the [CII] luminosity function (LF) at high redshift,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Elena Marcuzzo , Cristiano Porciani , Emilio Romano-Díaz , Prachi Khatri

Recent observations have shown that the intergalactic medium (IGM) is more transparent to Lyalpha photons close to Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs) than at large distance from them, ie a proximity effect. Cosmological simulations including winds…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Maselli , A. Ferrara , M. Bruscoli , S. Marri , R. Schneider

We present deep narrow-band (lambda = 5390 Angstroms, delta lambda = 77 Angstroms) and multi-color observations of the Hubble Deep Field and the Hawaii Deep Field SSA22 obtained with the LRIS instrument at the Keck II 10-m telescope. It is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lennox L. Cowie , Esther M. Hu

We report the detection of significant Lyman continuum flux in the composite spectrum of 29 Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) with redshifts <z> = 3.40+/-0.09. After correction for opacity due to intervening absorption using a new composite QSO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. C. Steidel , M. Pettini , K. L Adelberger

We present the first statistical analysis of kinematically-resolved, spatially-extended Ly$\alpha$ emission around $z = 2-3$ galaxies in the Keck Baryonic Structure Survey (KBSS) using the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI). Our sample of 59…

We present a new approach to measure the power-law temperature density relationship $T=T_0 (\rho / \bar{\rho})^{\gamma -1}$ and the UV background photoionization rate $\Gamma_{\rm HI}$ of the IGM based on the Voigt profile decomposition of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-18 Teng Hu , Vikram Khaire , Joseph F. Hennawi , Michael Walther , Hector Hiss , Justin Alsing , Jose Oñorbe , Zarija Lukic , Frederick Davies

We review the spectral properties of the population of star forming galaxies at z = 3 discovered using a colour selection technique which targets the Lyman discontinuity at 912 Angstroms. The UV luminosity of the typical z = 3 galaxy…

Models are presented for the Lyman alpha emission of dusty high-redshift galaxies by combining the Press-Schechter formalism with a treatment of the inhomogeneous dust distribution inside galaxies. It is found that the amount of Lyman alpha…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zoltan Haiman , Marco Spaans

We present the results of a systematic search for Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) at $6 \lesssim z \lesssim 7.6$ using the HST WFC3 Infrared Spectroscopic Parallel (WISP) Survey. Our total volume over this redshift range is $\sim 8 \times10^5$…

Recently, NIRSpec PRISM/CLEAR observations by JWST have begun providing rest-frame UV continuum measurements of galaxies at $z\gtrsim7$, revealing signatures of Ly$\alpha$ damping-wing (DW) absorption by the intergalactic medium (IGM). We…

We report the results from some of the deepest Keck/Multi-Object Spectrometer For Infra-Red Exploration data yet obtained for candidate $z \gtrsim 7$ galaxies. Our data show one significant line detection with 6.5$\sigma$ significance in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-03 Mimi Song , Steven L. Finkelstein , Rachael C. Livermore , Peter L. Capak , Mark Dickinson , Adriano Fontana

We describe narrowband and spectroscopic searches for emission-line star forming galaxies in the redshift range 3 to 6 with the 10 m Keck II Telescope. These searches yield a substantial population of objects with only a single strong…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Esther M. Hu , Lennox L. Cowie , Richard G. McMahon
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