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Observations with the JWST in lensed fields have revealed that galaxies at cosmic dawn may concentrate their star formation in highly dense, compact, star clusters. The high columns and low metallicities encountered in their birth…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-15 Shyam H Menon , Aaron Smith

The dynamical impact of Lyman-alpha (Ly{\alpha}) radiation pressure on galaxy formation depends on the rate and duration of momentum transfer between Ly{\alpha} photons and neutral hydrogen gas. Although photon trapping has the potential to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 Aaron Smith , Volker Bromm , Abraham Loeb

Order-unity star formation efficiencies (SFE) in early galaxies may explain the overabundance of bright galaxies observed by JWST at high redshift. Here we show that Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) radiation pressure limits the gas mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 D. Manzoni , A. Ferrara

Understanding the origin of strong galactic outflows and the suppression of star formation in dwarf galaxies is a key problem in galaxy formation. Using a set of radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of an isolated dwarf galaxy embedded in a…

Lyman-$\alpha$ photons enable the cosmic dawn 21-cm signal through a process called the Wouthuysen-Field effect. An accurate model of the signal in this epoch hinges on the accuracy of the computation of the Ly$\alpha$ coupling, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-18 Shikhar Mittal , Girish Kulkarni , Thibault Garel

Recent magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of the star-forming interstellar medium (ISM) with parsec scale resolution indicate that relativistic cosmic rays support the launching of galactic outflows on scales of a few kpc. If these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-23 Max Gronke , Philipp Girichidis , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch

Hydrogen emission lines can provide extensive information about star-forming galaxies in both the local and high-redshift Universe. We present a detailed Lyman continuum (LyC), Lyman-alpha (Ly{\alpha}), and Balmer line (H{\alpha} and…

The global 21-cm signal from the cosmic dawn is affected by a variety of heating and cooling processes. We investigate the impact of heating due to Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly~$\alpha$) photons on the global 21-cm signal at cosmic dawn using an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-19 Shikhar Mittal , Girish Kulkarni

We examine the properties of damped Lyman-$\alpha$ absorbers (DLAs) emerging from a single set of cosmological initial conditions in two state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamic simulations: {\sc Simba} and {\sc Technicolor Dawn}. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-13 Sultan Hassan , Kristian Finlator , Romeel Davé , Christopher W. Churchill , J. Xavier Prochaska

Lyman-alpha (Ly{\alpha}) photons from ionizing sources and cooling radiation undergo a complex resonant scattering process that generates unique spectral signatures in high-redshift galaxies. We present a detailed Ly{\alpha} radiative…

We present new simulations of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) intensity maps that include Ly$\alpha$ radiative transfer in the intergalactic medium (IGM) and all significant sources of Ly$\alpha$ photons. The sources considered include…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-29 Abigail E. Ambrose , Eli Visbal , Mihir Kulkarni , Matthew McQuinn

The forest of Lyman-alpha absorption lines seen in the spectra of distant quasars has become an important probe of the distribution of matter in the Universe. We use large, hydrodynamical simulations from the OWLS project to investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Matteo Viel , Joop Schaye , Craig M. Booth

Cosmic ray (CR) feedback has been proposed as a powerful mechanism for driving warm gas outflows in galaxies. We use cosmological magnetohydrodynamic simulations to investigate the impact of CR feedback on neutral hydrogen (HI) in a…

The Lyman-$\alpha$ forest is a powerful probe for cosmology, but it is also strongly impacted by galaxy evolution and baryonic processes such as Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback, which can redistribute mass and energy on large scales.…

Galaxy formation depends critically on the physical state of gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and its interface with the intergalactic medium (IGM), determined by the complex interplay between inflows from the IGM and outflows from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-16 Daniele Sorini , José Oñorbe , Joseph F. Hennawi , Zarija Lukić

Galactic outflows are critical to our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. However the details of the underlying feedback process remain unclear. We compare Ly$\alpha$ observations of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of Lyman…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-23 Andrew S. Chung , Mark Dijkstra , Benedetta Ciardi , Koki Kakiichi , Thorsten Naab

[abridged] Aims. The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the interstellar medium (ISM) physics on Lyman-alpha (Lya) radiation transfer and to quantify how galaxy orientation with respect to the line of sight alters observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Anne Verhamme , Yohan Dubois , Jeremy Blaizot , Thibault Garel , Roland Bacon , Julien Devriendt , Bruno Guiderdoni , Adrianne Slyz

Understanding the production and escape of Lyman $\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) radiation from star-forming galaxies is a long standing problem in astrophysics. The ability to predict the Ly$\alpha$ luminosity of galaxies would open up new ways of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-08 Axel Runnholm , Matthew Hayes , Jens Melinder , Emil Rivera-Thorsen , Göran Östlin , John Cannon , Daniel Kunth

We study radiation pressure due to Lyman alpha line photons, obtaining and exploring analytical expressions for the force-multiplier, $M_F(N_H, Z) = F_\alpha/(L_\alpha/c)$, as a function of gas column density, $N_H$, and metallicity, $Z$,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Giovanni Maria Tomaselli , Andrea Ferrara

The intergalactic medium (IGM) in the vicinity of galaxy protoclusters are interesting testbeds to study complex baryonic effects such as gravitational shocks and feedback. Here, we utilize hydrodynamical simulations from the SIMBA and The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-29 Chenze Dong , Khee-Gan Lee , Romeel Davé , Weiguang Cui , Daniele Sorini
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