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We present Keck/NIRSPEC spectroscopic observations of three Lyman alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) at z ~ 2.3 discovered with the HETDEX pilot survey. We detect Halpha, [OIII], and Hbeta emission from two galaxies at z = 2.29 and 2.49,…

We report the first direct and robust measurement of the faint-end slope of the Lyman-alpha emitter (LAE) luminosity function at z = 5.7. Candidate LAEs from a low-spectral-resolution blind search with IMACS on Magellan-Baade were targeted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Alan Dressler , Alaina Henry , Crystal L. Martin , Marcin Sawicki , Patrick McCarthy , Edward Villaneuva

Quasar proximity zones at $z>5.5$ correspond to over-dense and over-ionized environments. Galaxies found inside proximity zones can therefore display features which would otherwise be masked by absorption in the IGM. We demonstrate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 Sarah E. I. Bosman , Koki Kakiichi , Romain A. Meyer , Max Gronke , Nicolas Laporte , Richard S. Ellis

Lyman-{\alpha} emitters (LAEs) are a promising target to probe the large scale structure of the Universe at high redshifts, $z\gtrsim 2$. However, their detection is sensitive to radiative transfer effects that depend on local astrophysical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Siddhartha Gurung-López , Álvaro A. Orsi , Silvia Bonoli , Carlton M. Baugh , Cedric G. Lacey

Due to the large cross section of Ly$\alpha$ photons with hydrogen, Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) are sensitive to the presence of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR): the period in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Michael Pagano , Adrian Liu

The JADES survey recently reported the discovery of JADES-GS-z13-1-LA at $z = 13$, the highest redshift Ly$\alpha$ emitter (LAE) ever observed. This observation suggests that either the intergalactic medium (IGM) surrounding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-30 Joshua Cohon , Christopher Cain , Rogier Windhorst , Anson D'Aloisio , Timothy Carleton , Yongda Zhu

We present a sample of 33 spectroscopically confirmed z ~ 3.1 Ly$\alpha$-emitting galaxies (LAEs) in the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field. This paper details the narrow-band survey we conducted to detect the LAE sample, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Emily M. McLinden , James E. Rhoads , Sangeeta Malhotra , Steven L. Finkelstein , Mark L. A. Richardson , Brent Smith , Vithal S. Tilvi

The escape of Lyman-alpha photons at redshifts greater than two is an ongoing subject of study and an important quantity to further understanding of Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs), the transmission of Lyman-alpha photons through the…

We construct a sample of low-redshift Ly-alpha emission-line selected sources from GALEX grism spectroscopy of nine deep fields to study the role of Ly-alpha emission in galaxy populations with cosmic time. Our final sample consists of 119…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 L. L. Cowie , A. J. Barger , E. M. Hu

Ly$\alpha$ spectroscopy with JWST is opening a new window on the sizes of ionized bubbles through the reionization epoch. Theoretical expectations suggest typical bubble radii should be 0.6-1.5 pMpc at $z\simeq 7$, assuming neutral hydrogen…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Zuyi Chen , Daniel P. Stark , Charlotte A. Mason , Mengtao Tang , Lily Whitler , Ting-Yi Lu , Michael W. Topping

We present the redshift evolution of the radial surface brightness (SB) profile of the rest-frame UV and optical stellar continua for 9119 Lya emitters (LAEs) at z~0-8 and 0-2, respectively. Using Hubble Space Telescope data and the LAE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-12 Takatoshi Shibuya , Masami Ouchi , Yuichi Harikane , Kimihiko Nakajima

The escape fraction of LyC ionizing radiation ($f_{lyc}$) is crucial for understanding reionization, yet difficult to measure at $z \gtrsim 4$. Recently, studies have focused on calibrating indirect indicators of $f_{lyc}$ at $z \sim 0.3$,…

The VLT Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) integral-field spectrograph can detect Ly\alpha{} emitters (LAE) in the redshift range $2.8 \lesssim z \lesssim 6.7$ in a homogeneous way. Ongoing MUSE surveys will notably probe faint…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-09 Thibault Garel , Bruno Guiderdoni , Jérémy Blaizot

We present a spectroscopic survey of high-redshift, luminous galaxies over four square degrees on the sky, aiming to build a large and homogeneous sample of Ly$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) at $z\approx5.7$ and 6.5, and Lyman-break galaxies…

We present a novel dataset that extends our view of the cosmic gas around z$\approx$3-4 Ly$\alpha$ emitting galaxies (LAEs) in the Muse Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) survey by tracing a cool and enriched gas phase through 47 MgII…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-02 Marta Galbiati , Rajeshwari Dutta , Michele Fumagalli , Matteo Fossati , Sebastiano Cantalupo

We study the properties of Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) and Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at z=3-6 using cosmological SPH simulations. We investigate two simple scenarios for explaining the observed Ly-a and rest-frame UV luminosity functions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kentaro Nagamine , Masami Ouchi , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

We report the detection of extended Ly alpha emission around individual star-forming galaxies at redshifts z = 3-6 in an ultradeep exposure of the Hubble Deep Field South obtained with MUSE on the ESO-VLT. The data reach a limiting surface…

We present a comparison of the spatial distributions of Ly$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) and massive star-forming and quiescent galaxies (SFGs and QGs) at $2<z<4.5$. We use the photometric redshift catalog to select SFGs and QGs and a LAE catalog…

We use broadband photometry extending from the rest-frame UV to the near-IR to fit the individual spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 63 bright (L(Ly-alpha) > 10^43 ergs/s) Ly-alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) in the redshift range 1.9 < z…

We have obtained the first constraints on extended Ly-alpha emission at z ~ 1 in a sample of five radio galaxies. We detect Ly-alpha emission from four of the five galaxies. The Ly-alpha luminosities range from 0.1 - 4 times 10^43 erg/s and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Andrew W. Zirm , Arjun Dey , Mark Dickinson , Colin J. Norman