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It is predicted that sources emitting UV radiation in the Lyman band during the epoch of reionization (EoR) showed a series of discontinuities in their Ly-alpha flux radial profile as a consequence of the thickness of the Lyman line series…

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The solar Ly{\alpha} line emission can be considered as the dominant source of ionization processes in the ionospheric D-region at altitudes above 70 km during unperturbed conditions. However, large sudden impacts of radiation in some other…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Aleksandra Nina , Vladimir M. Čadež , Jovan Bajčetić

Coronal waves, significant solar phenomena, act as diagnostic tools for scientists studying solar atmosphere properties. Here, we present a novel observation detailing how a coronal wave event, associated with an X5.0 class flare,…

The diverse Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) line profiles are essential probes of gas in and around galaxies. While isotropic models can successfully reproduce a range of Ly$\alpha$ observables, the correspondence between the model and actual…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-13 Silvia Almada Monter , Max Gronke

The Lyman-$\alpha$ photons couple the spin temperature of neutral hydrogen (HI) to the kinetic temperature during the era of cosmic dawn. During this process, they also exchange energy with the medium, heating and cooling the HI. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-25 Janakee Raste , Shiv K. Sethi

Radio emission of the quiet Sun is considered to be due to thermal bremsstrahlung emission of the hot solar atmosphere. The properties of the quiet Sun in the microwave band have been well studied, and they can be well described by the…

A Monte Carlo code to solve the transfer of Lyman alpha (Lya) photons is developed, which can predict the Lya image and two-dimensional Lya spectra of a hydrogen cloud with any given geometry, Lya emissivity, neutral hydrogen density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Zheng Zheng , Jordi Miralda-Escude

Quiet sun meterwave emission arises from thermal bremsstrahlung in the MK corona, and can potentially be a rich source of coronal diagnostics. On its way to the observer, it gets modified substantially due to the propagation effects -…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-29 Rohit Sharma , Divya Oberoi

The radio emission of the quiet Sun in the metric and decametric bands has not been well studied historically due to limitations of existing instruments. It is nominally dominated by thermal brehmsstrahlung of the solar corona, but may also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-05 Kamen Kozarev , Mohamed Nedal

The epoch of reionization is a landmark in structure formation and galaxy evolution. How it happened is still not clear, especially regarding which population of objects was responsible for contributing the bulk of ionizing photons toward…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-04 C. Moya-Sierralta , J. González-López , L. Infante , L. F. Barrientos , W. Hu , S. Malhotra , J. Rhoads , J. Wang , I. Wold , Z. Zheng

We report a quantitative study of the escape of Lyman-alpha photons from an inhomogeneous optically thick medium that mimics the structure of damped Lyman-alpha absorbers. Modeling the optically thick disk with 3 components (massive stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Puyoo , L. Ben-Jaffel

The goal of the Fully Online Datacenter of Ultraviolet Emissions (FONDUE) Working Team of the International Space Science Institute in Bern, Switzerland, was to establish a common calibration of various UV and EUV heliospheric observations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Bzowski , J. M. Sokol , M. Tokumaru , K. Fujiki , E. Quemerais , R. Lallement , S. Ferron , P. Bochsler , D. J. McComas

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

Existing ubiquitously in the Universe with the highest luminosity, the Lyman-$\alpha$ emission line encodes abundant physical information about the gaseous medium it interacts with. Nevertheless, the resonant nature of Ly$\alpha$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-11 Zhihui Li , Max Gronke

This paper deals with the modeling of the interstellar hydrogen atoms (H atoms) distribution in the heliosphere. We study influence of the heliospheric interface, that is the region of the interaction between solar wind and local…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Olga Katushkina , Vladislav Izmodenov

The Solar Corona Imager is an internally occulted coronagraph on board the ASO-S mission, which has the advantage of imaging the inner corona in H I {Lyman-\textalpha} (Ly-alpha) and white-light (WL) wavebands. However, scattering of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-15 Jianchao Xue , Marco Romoli , Federico Landini , Cristian Baccani , Hui Li , Yunqi Wang , Bo Chen

We present the initial results of an observational study into the variation of the dominant length-scale of quiet solar emission: supergranulation. This length-scale reflects the radiative energy in the plasma of the upper solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Scott W. McIntosh , Robert J. Leamon , Rachel A. Hock , Mark P. Rast , Roger K. Ulrich

We present a formalism that incorporates hydrogen Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) polarization arising from the scattering of radiation in galaxy halos into the intensity mapping approach. Using the halo model, and emission profiles based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Lluís Mas-Ribas , Tzu-Ching Chang

Ultraviolet lines of molecular hydrogen have been observed in solar spectra for almost four decades, but the behavior of the molecular spectrum and its implications for solar atmospheric structure are not fully understood. Data from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Sarah A. Jaeggli , Philip G. Judge , Adrian N. Daw

During September 2023 the Alice ultraviolet spectrograph on the New Horizons (NH) spacecraft was used to map diffuse Lyman alpha (Lya) emission over most of the sky, at a range of 56.9 AU from the Sun. At that distance, models predict that…