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We present an analysis of the spatial clustering of 695 Ly$\alpha$-emitting galaxies (LAE) in the MUSE-Wide survey. All objects have spectroscopically confirmed redshifts in the range $3.3<z<6$. We employ the K-estimator of Adelberger et…

In this work, we test whether gradient-boosting algorithms, trained on broadband photometric data from traditional Lyman-$\alpha$ emitting (LAE) surveys, can efficiently and accurately identify LAE candidates from typical star-forming…

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The construction of catalogues of a particular type of galaxy can be complicated by interlopers contaminating the sample. In spectroscopic galaxy surveys this can be due to the misclassification of an emission line; for example in the…

Recent evidence suggests that high-redshift Ly-alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) with logL(Ly-alpha) > 43.5 erg/s, referred to as ultraluminous LAEs (ULLAEs), may show less evolution than lower-luminosity LAEs in the redshift range z=5.7-6.6.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-20 A. Songaila , A. J. Barger , L. L. Cowie , E. M. Hu , A. J. Taylor

We present a spectroscopic survey of Ly$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) at $z\approx5.7$ using the multi-object spectrograph M2FS on the Magellan Clay telescope. This is part of a high-redshift galaxy survey carried out in several well-studied deep…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-04 Yuanhang Ning , Linhua Jiang , Zhen-Ya Zheng , Jin Wu , Fuyan Bian , Eiichi Egami , Xiaohui Fan , Luis C. Ho , Yue Shen , Ran Wang , Xue-Bing Wu

Lyman-$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) are a promising probe of the large-scale structure at high redshift, $z\gtrsim 2$. In particular, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment aims at observing LAEs at 1.9 $<z<$ 3.5 to measure the Baryon…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-26 Christoph Behrens , Chris Byrohl , Shun Saito , Jens C. Niemeyer

Lyman-alpha emitter (LAE) surveys have successfully used the excess in a narrow-band filter compared to a nearby broad-band image to find candidates. However, the odd spectral energy distribution (SED) of LAEs combined with the instrumental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. A. de Diego , M. A. De Leo , J. Cepa , A. Bongiovanni , T. Verdugo , M. Sánchez-Portal , J. I. González-Serrano

Ly$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) have now been discovered out to redshift $z=13$, and are valuable probes of the reionization history at redshifts beyond the reach of other currently available tracers. Most inferences of the neutral hydrogen…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Soumak Maitra , Girish Kulkarni , Shikhar Asthana , James S. Bolton , Martin G. Haehnelt , Laura Keating

The Ly$\alpha$ emission line is a characteristic feature found in high-$z$ galaxies, serving as a probe of cosmic reionization. While previous works present various correlations between Ly$\alpha$ emission and physical properties of host…

We present a new model for high redshift Lyman-Alpha Emitters (LAEs) in the cosmological context which takes into account the resonant scattering of Ly-a photons through expanding gas. The GALICS semi-analytic model provides us with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Thibault Garel , Jérémy Blaizot , Bruno Guiderdoni , Daniel Schaerer , Anne Verhamme , Matthew Hayes

We present a survey of $z\sim3$ Ly$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) within the fields of the VLT LBG Redshift Survey. The data encompasses 5 independent survey fields co-spatial with spectroscopic LBG data and covering a larger total area than…

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.…

We present a novel method to investigate cosmic reionization, using joint spectral information on high redshift Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAE) and quasars (QSOs). Although LAEs have been proposed as reionization probes, their use is hampered by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Baek , A. Ferrara , B. Semelin

We present six strongly gravitationally lensed Ly-$\alpha$ Emitters (LAEs) at $z\sim4-5$ with HST narrowband imaging isolating Ly-$\alpha$. Through complex radiative transfer Ly-$\alpha$ encodes information about the spatial distribution…

Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) are galaxies that have been selected on the basis of a strong Ly{\alpha} emission line in their spectra. Observational campaigns have dramatically increased the sample of known LAEs, which now extends out to z=7.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Mark Dijkstra , Stuart Wyithe

We discuss different methods to separate high- from low-redshift galaxies based on a combination of spectroscopic and photometric observations. Our baseline scenario is the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy eXperiment (HETDEX) survey,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-12 Viviana Acquaviva , Eric Gawiser , Andrew S. Leung , Mario R. Martin

We report on a search for ultraluminous Lyman alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) at z=6.6 using the NB921 filter on Hyper Suprime-Cam on the Subaru telescope. We searched a 30 degree squared area around the North Ecliptic Pole, which we…

Clustering of Ly$\alpha$-emitting galaxies (LAEs) and Ly$\alpha$ line intensity mapping (LIM) are useful probes of cosmology. However, Ly$\alpha$ radiative transfer (RT) effects, such as absorption, line shift, and line broadening, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Maja Lujan Niemeyer

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