English
Related papers

Related papers: Observational challenges in Ly-alpha intensity map…

200 papers

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging observational technique that is used to observe the universe on large scales at low resolution through spectral line emission. Stacking analyses coadd cutouts of LIM data on positions of known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-30 Ella M. Mansfield , Delaney A. Dunne , Dongwoo T. Chung

We present the results of a search for Lyman-alpha emission galaxies at z~ 5.7 in the FORS Deep Field. The objective of this study is to improve the faint end of the luminosity function of high-redshift Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies and to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Tapken , I. Appenzeller , A. Gabasch , J. Heidt , U. Hopp , R. Bender , D. Mehlert , S. Noll , S. Seitz , W. Seifert

This is the second paper in a series whose aim is to predict the power spectrum of intensity and polarized intensity from cosmic reionization fronts. After building the analytic models for intensity and polarized intensity calculations in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Emily Koivu , Heyang Long , Yuanyuan Yang , Christopher M. Hirata

Realizing the utility of Ly$\alpha$ emission to trace the evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the epoch of reionization requires deep spectroscopy across the boundary of optical and near-infrared (NIR) spectrographs at…

Sub-millimeter emission lines produced by the interstellar medium (ISM) are strong tracers of star formation and are some of the main targets of line intensity mapping (LIM) surveys. In this work we present an empirical multi-line emission…

We search for galaxy counterparts to damped Lyman-alpha absorbers (DLAs) at z>2 towards nine quasars, which have 14 DLAs and 8 sub-DLAs in their spectra. We use integral field spectroscopy to search for Ly-alpha emission line objects at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-13 L. Christensen , L. Wisotzki , M. M. Roth , S. F. Sanchez , A. Kelz , K. Jahnke

We study the prospects for constraining the ionized fraction of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at $z>6$ with the next generation of large Ly$\alpha$ emitter surveys. We make predictions for the upcoming Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hannes Jensen , Matthew Hayes , Ilian Iliev , Peter Laursen , Garrelt Mellema , Erik Zackrisson

Combining 66 ultraviolet (UV) spectra and ancillary data from the Low-Redshift Lyman Continuum Survey (LzLCS) and 23 LyC observations by earlier studies, we form a statistical sample of star-forming galaxies at $z \sim 0.3$ to study the…

Searches for Lyman-alpha emission lines are among the most effective ways to identify high-redshift galaxies. They are particularly interesting because they probe not only the galaxies themselves but also the ionization state of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steven R. Furlanetto , Matias Zaldarriaga , Lars Hernquist

The Lya emission line of HI is intrinsically the brightest feature in the spectrum of astrophysical nebulae, making it a very attractive observational tool with which to survey galaxies. Moreover as a UV resonance line, Lya possesses…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Matthew Hayes

Recent work has shown that UV-luminous reionization-era galaxies often exhibit strong Lyman-alpha emission despite being situated at redshifts where the IGM is thought to be substantially neutral. It has been argued that this enhanced…

Context. The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) line intensity mapping (LIM) survey will measure the power spectrum (PS) of the singly ionized carbon 158 $\rm \mu$m fine-structure line, [CII], to trace the appearance of the first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-24 C. Karoumpis , B. Magnelli , E. Romano-Díaz , K. Garcia , A. Dev , J. Clarke , T. -M. Wang , T. Badescu , D. Riechers , F. Bertoldi

We perform a ground-based near-infrared spectroscopic survey using the Keck/MOSFIRE spectrograph to target Ly$\alpha$ emission at $7.0<z<8.2$ from 61 galaxies to trace the ionization state of the intergalactic medium (IGM). We cover a total…

We report the discovery of Lyman-alpha emission (Ly$\alpha$) in the bright galaxy EGSY-2008532660 (hereafter EGSY8p7) using the MOSFIRE spectrograph at the Keck Observatory. First reported by Roberts-Borsani et al. (2015), it was selected…

Intermediate redshifts between galaxy surveys and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) remain unexplored territory. Line intensity mapping (LIM) offers a way to probe the $z\gtrsim 1$ Universe, including the epoch of reionization and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Abhishek S. Maniyar , Emmanuel Schaan , Anthony R. Pullen

21 cm intensity mapping has arisen as a powerful probe of the high-redshift universe, but its potential is limited by extremely bright foregrounds and high source confusion. In this Letter, we propose a new analysis which can help solve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-11 Patrick C. Breysse , Christopher J. Anderson , Philippe Berger

Context. Lyman Break Galaxies (LBG) and Narrow Band (NB) surveys have been successful at detecting large samples of high-redshift galaxies. Both methods are subject to contamination from low-redshift interlopers. Aims. In this paper, our…

(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 investigate the [CII] line intensity mapping (IM) signal from galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) to assess its detectability, the possibility to constrain the $L_{\rm CII}-{\rm SFR}$ relation, and to recover the [CII] luminosity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Bin Yue , Andrea Ferrara

By combining high resolution, radiative transfer cosmological simulations of z~6 galaxies with a sub-grid multi-phase model of their interstellar medium we derive the expected intensity of several far infrared (FIR) emission lines ([C II]…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Livia Vallini , Simona Gallerani , Andrea Ferrara , Sunghye Baek