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[Abbreviated] Rest-frame UV emission lines probe physical parameters of the emitting star-forming galaxies and their environments. The strongest main UV line, Ly$\alpha$, has been instrumental in advancing the general knowledge of galaxy…

We present the luminosity function (LF) for ultraluminous Ly$\alpha$ emitting galaxies (LAEs) at z = 6.6. We define ultraluminous LAEs (ULLAEs) as galaxies with logL(Ly$\alpha$) > 43.5 erg s$^{-1}$. We select our main sample using the g',…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-05 Anthony J. Taylor , Amy J. Barger , Lennox L. Cowie , Esther M. Hu , Antoinette Songaila

We present a simple physical model for populating dark matter halos with Lyman Alpha Emiiters(LAEs) and predict the physical properties of LAEs at z~3-7. The central tenet of this model is that the Ly-alpha luminosity is proportional to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-27 Vithal Tilvi , Sangeeta Malhotra , James E. Rhoads , Evan Scannapieco , Robert J. Thacker , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema

We present the results of a photometric and spectroscopic survey of 321 Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at z ~ 3 to investigate systematically the relationship between Lya emission and stellar populations. Lya equivalent widths (EW) were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Katherine A. Kornei , Alice E. Shapley , Dawn K. Erb , Charles C. Steidel , Naveen A. Reddy , Max Pettini , Milan Bogosavljevic

Determining Lya properties of distant galaxies is of great interest for various astrophysical studies. We examine how the strength of Lya emission can be constrained from broad-band SED fits instead of relying on spectroscopy. We use our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Daniel Schaerer , Stephane de Barros , Daniel P. Stark

Being the most prominent HI line, Ly$\alpha$ permeates the cosmic web in emission. Despite its potential as a cosmological probe, its detection on large scales remains elusive. We present a new methodology to perform Ly$\alpha$ intensity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Pablo Renard , Daniele Spinoso , Zechang Sun , Hu Zou , Paulo Montero-Camacho , Zheng Cai

High-redshift Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) are efficiently selected in deep images using as few as three broadband filters, and have been shown to have multiple intrinsic and small- to large-scale environmental properties related to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-21 Garry Foran , Jeff Cooke , Naveen Reddy , Charles Steidle , Alice Shapley

The Hydrogen Lyman-alpha (Lya) line shows a large variety of shapes which is caused by factors at different scales, from the interstellar medium to the intergalactic medium. This work aims to provide a systematic inventory and…

The significance of the Ly$\alpha$ emission line as a probe of the high-redshift Universe has long been established. Originating mainly in the vicinity of young, massive stars and in association with accretion of large bulks of matter, it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-17 Peter Laursen

JWST observations have recently begun delivering the first samples of Ly$\alpha$ velocity profile measurements at $z>6$, opening a new window on the reionization process. Interpretation of $z\gtrsim6$ line profiles is currently stunted by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-21 Mengtao Tang , Daniel P. Stark , Richard S. Ellis , Michael W. Topping , Charlotte Mason , Zhihui Li , Adèle Plat

The usefulness of H I Lyman-alpha photons for characterizing star formation in the distant universe is limited by our understanding of the astrophysical processes that regulate their escape from galaxies. These processes can only be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Wofford , C. Leitherer , J. Salzer

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 have employed deep neural network, or deep learning to predict the flux and the shape of the broad Ly$\alpha$ emission lines in the spectra of quasars. We use 17870 high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR > 15) quasar spectra from the Sloan…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-05 Hassan Fathivavsari

Ly$\alpha$ photons scattered by neutral hydrogen atoms in the circumgalactic media or produced in the halos of star-forming galaxies are expected to lead to extended Ly$\alpha$ emission around galaxies. Such low surface brightness…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ethan Lake , Zheng Zheng , Renyue Cen , Raphael Sadoun , Rieko Momose , Masami Ouchi

We present a new theoretical model for the luminosity functions (LFs) of Lyman alpha (Lya) emitting galaxies in the framework of hierarchical galaxy formation. We extend a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation that reproduces a number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi , Tomonori Totani , Masahiro Nagashima

We present a statistical study of velocities of Lya, interstellar (IS) absorption, and nebular lines and gas covering fraction for Lya emitters (LAEs) at z~2. We make a sample of 22 LAEs with a large Lya equivalent width (EW) of > 50A based…

Context. Lyman alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) are used to probe the distant universe and are therefore important for galaxy evolution studies and for providing clues to the nature of the epoch of reionization, but the exact circumstances…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-12 A. Sandberg , L. Guaita , G. Östlin , M. Hayes , F. Kiaeerad

Understanding the role of high-redshift protoclusters in cosmic reionization is essential to unveiling the early stages of structure formation. Using deep imaging and spectroscopy from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) JADES Deep Survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-29 Qiong Li , Christopher J. Conselice , Duncan Austin , Tom Harvey , Nathan Adams , Vadim Rusakov , Lewi Westcott

We present the results from a VLT/SINFONI and Keck/NIRSPEC near-infrared spectroscopic survey of 16 Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) at $z$ = 2.1 - 2.5 in the COSMOS and GOODS-N fields discovered from the HETDEX Pilot Survey. We detect…