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The extensive ground-based spectroscopy campaign from the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey (VUDS), and the deep multi-wavelength photometry in three very well observed extragalactic fields (ECDFS, COSMOS, VVDS), allow us to investigate physical…

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In this paper we study the impact of cosmic variance and observational uncertainties in constraining the mass and occupation fraction, $f_{\rm occ}$, of dark matter halos hosting Ly-$\alpha$ Emitting Galaxies (LAEs) at high redshift. To…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 Julian E. Mejia-Restrepo , Jaime E. Forero-Romero

We present coarse but robust star formation histories (SFHs) derived from spectro-photometric data of the Carnegie-Spitzer-IMACS Survey, for 22,494 galaxies at 0.3<z<0.9 with stellar masses of 10^9 Msun to 10^12 Msun. Our study moves beyond…

Equivalent widths (EWs) observed in high-redshift Lyman alpha galaxies could be stronger than the EW intrinsic to the stellar population if dust is present residing in clumps in the inter-stellar medium (ISM). In this scenario, continuum…

The H-alpha (Ha) emission line in galaxies is a powerful tracer of their recent star formation activity. With the advent of JWST, we are now able to routinely observe Ha in galaxies at high redshift (z > 3) and thus measure their star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-11 I. G. Kramarenko , J. Rosdahl , J. Blaizot , J. Matthee , H. Katz , C. Di Cesare

Stellar mass, size, and star formation rate (SFR) are fundamental properties that encode the structural and evolutionary states of galaxies. Observations reveal a mass-SFR-size relation whereby galaxies become more compact both above and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-03 Jiani Chu , Dandan Xu , Enci Wang , Stijn Wuyts

The star formation rate (SFR) and black hole accretion rate (BHAR) functions are measured to be proportional to each other at z < ~3. This close correspondence between SF and BHA would naturally yield a BH mass-galaxy mass correlation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 X. Z. Zheng , E. F. Bell , R. S. Somerville , H. -W. Rix , K. Jahnke , F. Fontanot , G. H. Rieke , D. Schiminovich , K. Meisenheimer

This study examines the limitations of H$\alpha$ luminosity as a tracer of star formation rates (SFR) in spatially resolved observations. We carry out high-resolution simulations of a Milky Way-like galaxy including both supernova and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-01 Zipeng Hu , Benjamin D. Wibking , Mark R. Krumholz , Christoph Federrath

Understanding Ly$\alpha$ emitting galaxies (LAEs) can be a key to reveal cosmic reionization and galaxy formation in the early Universe. Based on halo merger trees and Ly$\alpha$ radiation transfer calculations, we model redshift evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 Hidenobu Yajima , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Kenji Hasegawa

We explore the isothermal total density profiles of early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the IllustrisTNG simulation. For the selected 559 ETGs at $z = 0$ with stellar mass $10^{10.7}\mathrm{M}_{\odot} \leqslant M_{\ast} \leqslant…

We investigate the influence of the initial proto-galaxies over-densities and masses on their evolution, to understand whether the internal properties of the proto-galactic haloes are sufficient to account for the varied properties of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Emiliano Merlin , Cesare Chiosi , Lorenzo Piovan , Tommaso Grassi , Umberto Buonomo , Francesco La Barbera

We explore a large uniformly selected sample of H${\alpha}$ selected star-forming galaxies (SFGs) at z=0.40,0.84,1.47,2.23 to unveil the evolution of the star formation rate (SFR) function and the stellar mass function. We find strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 David Sobral , Philip N. Best , Ian Smail , Bahram Mobasher , John Stott , David Nisbet

The mean alpha-to-iron abundance ratio ([$\alpha$/Fe]) of galaxies is sensitive to the chemical evolution processes at early time, and it is an indicator of star formation timescale ($\tau_{{\rm SF}}$). Although the physical reason remains…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-05 Yiqing Liu , Luis C. Ho , Eric Peng

We explore the properties of high-redshift Lyman-alpha emitters (LAE), and their link with the Lyman-Break galaxy population (LBG), using a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation that takes into account resonant scattering of Lya photons…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Garel , J. Blaizot , B. Guiderdoni , L. Michel-Dansac , M. Hayes , A. Verhamme

We present work on H alpha spectral line characteristics in PHOENIX stellar model atmospheres and their comparison to microlensing observations. We examine in detail the H alpha equivalent width (EW) and the line shape characteristics for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Christine Thurl , Penny D. Sackett , Peter H. Hauschildt

Early JWST photometric studies discovered a population of UV faint ($\rm <L^{*}_{UV}$) $z \sim 6.5-8$ Lyman break galaxies with spectral energy distributions implying young ages ($\sim10$ Myr) yet relatively weak H$\beta$+[OIII] equivalent…

The remarkably tight relationship between galaxy optical color and stellar mass-to-light ratio ($M_*/L$) is widely used for efficient stellar mass estimates. However, it remains unclear whether this low scatter comes from a natural order in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-10 Yijia Li , Joel Leja

Several recent measurements have been made of the angular correlation function $w(\theta,m)$ of faint galaxies in deep surveys (e.g., Hubble Deep Field, HDF). Are the measured correlations indicative of gravitational growth of primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Boudewijn F. Roukema , David Valls-Gabaud

Interpreting galaxy properties from astronomical surveys relies heavily on spectral energy distribution (SED) modelling, yet uncertainties in key model ingredients are often overlooked. By leveraging a $z\sim0$ galaxy sample from the EAGLE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-04 Gareth T. Jones , Conor M. Byrne , Elizabeth R. Stanway