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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…

Damped Ly\alpha\ systems (DLAs) observed in the quasar spectra are characterized by a high neutral hydrogen column density $N_{HI}>2\times 10^{20}{\rm\ cm^{-2}}$. The absorption wing profiles are often fitted using the Voigt function due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Hee-Won Lee

We review the formalism and applications of the halo-based description of nonlinear gravitational clustering. In this approach, all mass is associated with virialized dark matter halos; models of the number and spatial distribution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Asantha Cooray , Ravi Sheth

The accepted explanation of the observed dichotomy of two orders of magnitude between in situ measurements of electron density in HII regions, derived from emission line ratios, and average measurements based on integrated emission measure,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 C. Giammanco , J. E. Beckman , A. Zurita , M. Relaño

Scattering of Lyman Alpha (hereafter Lya) photons by neutral hydrogen gas in a single outflowing 'supershell' around star forming regions often explains the shape and offset of the observed Lya emission line from galaxies. We compute the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mark Dijkstra , Abraham Loeb

We introduce a very simple model of a dark halo. It is a close relative of Hernquist's model, being generated by the same transformation but this time applied to the logarithmic potential rather than the point mass. The density is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 N. W. Evans , A. A. Williams

We perform Monte-Carlo radiative transfer calculations to model the Lyman alpha properties of galaxies in high-resolution, zoom-in cosmological simulations at z ~ 6.6. The simulations include both constrained and unconstrained runs,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Raphael Sadoun , Emilio Romano-Diaz , Isaac Shlosman , Zheng Zheng

Conventional studies of galaxy clustering within the framework of halo models typically assume that the density profile of all dark matter haloes can be approximated by the Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) spherically symmetric profile. However,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 Anna Durkalec , Agnieszka Pollo , Ummi Abbas

We present the Cosmic Lyman-$\alpha$ Transfer code (COLT), a massively parallel Monte-Carlo radiative transfer code, to simulate Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) resonant scattering through neutral hydrogen as a probe of the first galaxies. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Aaron Smith , Chalence Safranek-Shrader , Volker Bromm , Miloš Milosavljević

We present 3D resonant radiative transfer simulations of the spatial and spectral diffusion of the Lya radiation from a central source in the host galaxies of high column density absorption systems at z ~ 3. The radiative transfer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Luke A. Barnes , Martin G. Haehnelt , Edoardo Tescari , Matteo Viel

Lyman-alpha (Lya) photons that escape the interstellar medium of star-forming galaxies may be resonantly scattered by neutral hydrogen atoms in the circumgalactic and intergalactic media, thereby increasing the angular extent of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Zheng Zheng , Renyue Cen , David Weinberg , Hy Trac , Jordi Miralda-Escude

N-body simulations of dark matter halos show that the density profiles of halos behave as $\rho(r)\propto r^{-\alpha(r)}$, where the density logarithmic slope $\alpha \simeq 1\sim1.5$ in the center and $\alpha \simeq 3\sim 4$ in the outer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ding Ma , Ping He

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…

The escape of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) radiation encodes valuable information on the neutral interstellar medium and is often used as a proxy for the escape of ionizing photons. Yet, the theory of Ly$\alpha$ transfer through anisotropic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-11 Silvia Almada Monter , Max Gronke , Seok-Jun Chang

Lyman limit and damped Lyman-alpha absorption systems probe the distribution of collapsed, cold gas at high redshift. Numerical simulations that incorporate gravity and gas dynamics can predict the abundance of such absorbers in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jeffrey P. Gardner , Neal Katz , Lars Hernquist , David H. Weinberg

Determining the spatial distribution and intrinsic physical properties of neutral hydrogen on cosmological scales is one of the key goals of next-generation radio surveys. We use the EAGLE galaxy formation simulations to assess the…

Using the model for (bottom-up) hierarchical halo growth recently developed by Salvador-Sol\'e et al. (2012), we derive the typical spherically averaged density profile for haloes with several relevant masses in the concordant warm dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-10 Jordi Viñas , Eduard Salvador-Solé , Alberto Manrique

This is the third paper in a series in which we attempt to put constraints on the flattening of dark halos in disk galaxies. For this purpose we need to analyse the observed XV diagrams in edge-on galaxies to accurately measure the radial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 J. C. O'Brien , K. C. Freeman , P. C. van der Kruit

We present intermediate resolution ($\sim3$ \AA ) spectra of the Ly$\alpha$ emission from 15 high redshift radio galaxies ($z>2$). Together with previously published spectra we analyze data for a sample of 18 objects. In 11 of the 18 radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. van Ojik , H. J. A. Röttgering , G. K. Miley , R. W. Hunstead

We present a new perturbative approach to "constrained Ly$\alpha$ radiative transfer'" (RT) through the circum- and inter-galactic medium (CGM and IGM). We constrain the HI content and kinematics of the CGM and IGM in a physically motivated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 Koki Kakiichi , Mark Dijkstra