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We use the THESAN radiation-hydrodynamics simulations to investigate how Lyman-$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) trace ionized bubble sizes during the Epoch of Reionization. We generate realistic LAE catalogs by combining accurate intrinsic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-20 Meredith Neyer , Aaron Smith , Mark Vogelsberger , Luz Ángela García , Rahul Kannan , Enrico Garaldi , Laura Keating

Lyman alpha emitters (LAEs) in the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) offer valuable probes of early galaxy evolution and the process of reionization; however, the exact evolution of their abundance and the nature of their emission remain open…

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

High redshift galaxies selected on the basis of their strong Lyman-alpha emission tend to be young ages and small physical sizes. We show this by analyzing the spectral energy distribution (SED) of 9 Lyman-alpha emitting (LAE) galaxies at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Norbert Pirzkal , Sangeeta Malhotra , James E. Rhoads , Chun Xu

Reionization is an inhomogeneous process, thought to begin in small ionized bubbles of the intergalactic medium (IGM) around overdense regions of galaxies. Recent Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) studies during the epoch of reionization show…

We use Hubble space telescope data of 45 nearby star-forming galaxies to investigate properties of Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) halos, Ly$\alpha$ morphology, and the star-forming characteristics of galaxies. We study how the morphology of…

Ly{\alpha} line EWs provide important clues to the physical nature of high redshift LAEs. However, measuring the Ly{\alpha} EW distribution of high-z narrowband selected LAEs can be hard because many sources do not have broadband…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Zhen-Ya Zheng , Jun-Xian Wang , Sangeeta Malhotra , James E. Rhoads , Steven L. Finkelstein , Keely Finkelstein

We present the first characterization of the circumgalactic medium of Ly$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs), using a sample of 96 $z\approx3.3$ LAEs detected with the VLT/MUSE in fields centered on 8 bright background quasars. The LAEs have low…

The Lya emission has been observed from galaxies over a redshift span z ~ 0 - 8.6. However, the evolution of high-redshift Lya emitters (LAEs), and the link between these populations and local galaxies, remain poorly understood. Here, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Hidenobu Yajima , Yuexing Li , Qirong Zhu , Tom Abel , Caryl Gronwall , Robin Ciardullo

Studies of the formation and early history of galaxies have been hampered by the difficulties inherent in detecting faint galaxy populations at high redshift. As a consequence, observations at the highest redshifts (3.5 < z < 5) have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Esther M. Hu , Richard G. McMahon

The intrinsic strength of the Ly$\alpha$ line in young, star-forming systems makes it a special tool for studying high-redshift galaxies. However, interpreting observations remains challenging due to the complex radiative transfer involved.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-05 Christoph Behrens , Andrea Pallottini , Andrea Ferrara , Simona Gallerani , Livia Vallini

We build a physical model for high-redshift Lyman Alpha emitters (LAEs) by coupling state of the art cosmological simulations (GADGET-2) with a dust model and a radiative transfer code (pCRASH). We post-process the cosmological simulation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-07 A. Hutter , P. Dayal , A. M. Partl , V. Müller

Distant luminous Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) are excellent targets for spectroscopic observations of galaxies in the epoch of reionisation (EoR). We present deep high-resolution (R=5000) VLT/X-SHOOTER observations, along with an extensive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-21 Jorryt Matthee , David Sobral , Max Gronke , Ana Paulino-Afonso , Mauro Stefanon , Huub Röttgering

We analyze the rest-frame optical (~8000 {\AA}) morphologies and star formation activity of Ly{\alpha} emitters (LAEs) at redshifts $2.4$, $3.1$, and $4.5$, identified in the ODIN survey. To compare their physical properties with those of…

One remaining open question regarding the physical properties of Ly$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) is their dust content and its evolution with redshift. The variety of results is large and with those reported by now is difficult to establish…

Spatially extended Ly-alpha sources which are faint and compact in coninuum are candidates for extremely young galaxies (age of ~<10e+7 yrs) at high redshifts. We carried out a systematic survey for extended Ly-alpha sources, using deep…

The goal of this study is to conduct a timely analysis of the high-redshift star-forming galaxy populations, which will be informative in designing next-generation experiments and their extragalactic targets. We use the hydrodynamical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 Jyotsna Ravi , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Martin White , Lars Hernquist , Sownak Bose

In this work we analyze the physical properties of a sample of 56 spectroscopically selected star-forming (SF) Ly$\alpha$ emitting galaxies at 2.0$\lesssim$z$\lesssim$3.5 using both a spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting procedure…

The extended Ly$\alpha$ haloes (LAHs) have been found to be prevalent around high-redshift star-forming galaxies. However, the origin of the LAHs is still a subject of debate. Spatially resolved analysis of Ly$\alpha$ profiles provides an…

We report the observation of a further asymmetric, extended Lyman alpha emitting halo at z=2.63, from our ultra-deep, long-slit spectroscopic survey of faint high redshift emitters, undertaken with Magellan LDSS3 in the GOODS-S field. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Michael Rauch , George D. Becker , Martin G. Haehnelt , Jean-Rene Gauthier , Wallace L. W. Sargent