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Compact, star-forming galaxies with high star formation rate surface densities ($\Sigma_{\text{SFR}}$) are often efficient Lyman continuum (LyC) emitters at $z\leq 4.5$, likely as intense stellar feedback creates low-density channels that…

JWST is uncovering the properties of ever increasing numbers of galaxies at z>6, during the epoch of reionization. Connecting these observed populations to the process of reionization requires understanding how efficiently they produce…

Constraining the escape fraction of Lyman Continuum (LyC) photons from high-redshift galaxies is crucial to understanding reionization. Recent observations have demonstrated that various characteristics of the Ly$\alpha$ emission line…

Aims: We present an analysis of the Lyman continuum (LyC) escape fraction of high redshift galaxies using an analytic post-processing approach. Methods: We apply the model to 600,000 galaxies of the Illustris TNG50 simulation in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-05 Ivan Kostyuk , Benedetta Ciardi , Andrea Ferrara

Understanding the ionizing photon escape from galaxies is essential for studying Cosmic Reionization. With a sample of 23 Lyman Continuum (LyC) leakers at $3<z<4.5$ in the GOODS-S field, we investigate their morphologies using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-12 Shuairu Zhu , Zhen-ya Zheng , Fang-Ting Yuan , Chunyan Jiang , Ruqiu Lin

The escape of ionizing Lyman Continuum (LyC) photons requires the existence of low-N_HI sightlines, which also promote escape of Lyman-Alpha (Lya). We use a suite of 2500 Lya Monte-Carlo radiative transfer simulations through models of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Mark Dijkstra , Max Gronke , Aparna Venkatesan

Characterizing the mechanisms and galaxy properties conducive to the emission and escape of ionizing (LyC) emission is necessary to accurately model the Epoch of Reionization, and identify the sources that powered it. The Ly$\alpha$ and…

We present observations with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph onboard the Hubble Space Telescope of nine low-mass star-forming galaxies at redshifts, z, in the range 0.3179-0.4524, with stellar masses Mstar < 10^8 M and veruny high specific…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-02 Y. I. Izotov , G. Worseck , D. Schaerer , N. G. Guseva , J. Chisholm , T. X. Thuan , K. J. Fricke , A. Verhamme

The Lyman continuum (LyC) flux escaping from high-z galaxies into the IGM is a fundamental quantity to understand the physical processes involved in the reionization epoch. We have investigated a sample of star-forming galaxies at z~3.3 in…

The Haro 11 galaxy merger is the closest known Lyman Continuum (LyC) leaker and a strong Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) emitter, making it an important analogue of the high-$z$ galaxies that reionised the early Universe. To investigate how…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-30 Timmy Ejdetjärn , Göran Östlin , Joakim Rosdahl , Jérémy Blaizot , Oscar Agertz

Measuring the escape fraction, $f_{\rm esc}$, of ionizing, Lyman Continuum (LyC) radiation is key to our understanding of the process of cosmic reionization. In this paper we provide a methodology for recovering the posterior probability…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 R. Bassett , E. V. Ryan-Weber , J. Cooke , U. Mestric , L. J. Prichard , M. Rafelski , I. Iwata , M. Sawicki , S. Gwyn , S. Arnouts

In this work, we investigate upper limits on the global escape fraction of ionizing photons ($f_{\rm esc/global}^{\rm abs}$) from a sample of galaxies probed for Lyman-continuum (LyC) emission characterized as non-LyC and LyC leakers. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-27 U. Meštrić , E. V. Ryan-Weber , J. Cooke , R. Bassett , L. J. Prichard , M. Rafelski

Reliable indirect diagnostics of LyC photon escape from galaxies are required to understand which sources were the dominant contributors to reionization. While multiple LyC escape fraction ($f_{\rm esc}$) indicators have been proposed to…

The LyC escape fraction from galaxies, $f_{\rm esc}$, is strongly boosted by galactic outflows. In the Attenuation-Free Model (AFM) accounting for the properties of $z>10$ galaxies, radiation-driven outflows develop once the galaxy specific…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-26 A. Ferrara , M. Giavalisco , L. Pentericci , E. Vanzella , A. Calabrò , M. Llerena

We present observations with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph onboard the Hubble Space Telescope of five star-forming galaxies at redshifts z in the range 0.2993-0.4317 and with high emission-line flux ratios O32=[OIII]5007/[OII]3727 ~ 8-27…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-01 Y. I. Izotov , G. Worseck , D. Schaerer , N. G. Guseva , T. X. Thuan , K. J. Fricke , A. Verhamme , I. Orlitova

A large number of high-redshift galaxies have been discovered via their narrow-band Lya line or broad-band continuum colors in recent years. The nature of the escaping process of photons from these early galaxies is crucial to understanding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-16 Hidenobu Yajima , Yuexing Li , Qirong Zhu , Tom Abel , Caryl Gronwall , Robin Ciardullo

The physical origin of low escape fractions of ionizing radiation derived from massive star-forming galaxies at $z\sim3$-$4$ is not well understood. We perform idealised disc galaxy simulations to understand how galactic properties such as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-21 Taehwa Yoo , Taysun Kimm , Joakim Rosdahl

To date no direct detection of Lyman continuum emission has been measured for intermediate--redshift z~1 star-forming galaxies . We combine HST grism spectroscopy with GALEX UV and ground--based optical imaging to extend the search for…

We have studied the effects of gas density inhomogeneities on the escape of ionising Lyman continuum (Lyc) photons from Milky Way-type galaxies via 3D numerical simulations using the Monte Carlo radiative transfer code CRASH (Ciardi et al.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Ciardi , S. Bianchi , A. Ferrara

The escape of Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation from early galaxies transformed the intergalactic medium (IGM) and is intimately connected to the fueling and feedback processes that regulate galaxy evolution. IGM attenuation interferes with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-27 Anne E. Jaskot
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