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Ly$\alpha$ emission from galaxies can be utilized to characterize the ionization state in the intergalactic medium (IGM). We report our search for Ly$\alpha$ emission at $z>7$ using a comprehensive Keck/MOSFIRE near-infrared spectroscopic…

Lyman-Alpha (Lya) photons emitted in star-forming galaxies undergo complex radiative transfer through the interstellar (ISM), circumgalactic (CGM), and intergalactic medium (IGM), imprinting characteristic signatures on their observed line…

Spectroscopic confirmation of galaxies at z~7 and above has been extremely difficult, owing to a drop in intensity of Ly-alpha emission in comparison with samples at z~6. This crucial finding could potentially signal the ending of cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 T. Treu , M. Trenti , M. Stiavelli , M. W. Auger , L. D. Bradley

The Ly$\alpha$ emission line is one of the main observables of galaxies at high redshift, but its output depends strongly on the neutral gas distribution and kinematics around the star-forming regions where UV photons are produced. We…

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

We present a novel technique called "photometric IGM tomography" to map the intergalactic medium (IGM) at $z\simeq4.9$ in the COSMOS field. It utilizes deep narrow-band (NB) imaging to photometrically detect faint Ly$\alpha$ forest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Koki Kakiichi , Joseph F. Hennawi , Yoshiaki Ono , Akio K. Inoue , Masami Ouchi , Richard S. Ellis , Romain A. Meyer , Sarah I. Bosman

This is the second paper in a series whose aim is to predict the power spectrum of intensity and polarized intensity from cosmic reionization fronts. After building the analytic models for intensity and polarized intensity calculations in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Emily Koivu , Heyang Long , Yuanyuan Yang , Christopher M. Hirata

This document describes the publically available numerical code "IGMtransfer", capable of performing intergalactic radiative transfer (RT) of light in the vicinity of the Lyman alpha (Lya) line. Calculating the RT in a (possibly adaptively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-17 Peter Laursen

Clustering of Ly$\alpha$-emitting galaxies (LAEs) and Ly$\alpha$ line intensity mapping (LIM) are useful probes of cosmology. However, Ly$\alpha$ radiative transfer (RT) effects, such as absorption, line shift, and line broadening, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Maja Lujan Niemeyer

Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) has garnered attention as a powerful cosmological probe, with next-generation instruments such as SPHEREx preparing to map the evolution of large-scale structure during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Mouza Almualla , Aaron Smith , Rahul Kannan , Lars Hernquist , Enrico Garaldi , Adam Lidz , Kevin Lorinc , Jennifer Yik Ham Chan , Mark Vogelsberger

We investigate the escape of Ly$\beta$ from emission nebulae with a significant population of excited hydrogen atoms in the level $n=2$, rendering them optically thick in H$\alpha$. The transfer of Ly$\beta$ line photons in these optically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 Seok-Jun Chang , Hee-Won Lee , Sang-Hyeon Ahn , Hogyu Lee , Rodolfo Angeloni , Tali Palma , Francesco Di Mille

Recently, NIRSpec PRISM/CLEAR observations by JWST have begun providing rest-frame UV continuum measurements of galaxies at $z\gtrsim7$, revealing signatures of Ly$\alpha$ damping-wing (DW) absorption by the intergalactic medium (IGM). We…

The Lyman alpha (LyA) line of neutral hydrogen plays a central role in observations of star-forming galaxies. However, resonant scattering makes it difficult to directly interpret LyA signatures. Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-11 Kevin Lorinc , Aaron Smith , Olof Nebrin , Joshua Kasiri

We conducted systematic radiative transfer (RT) modeling of the Mg II doublet line profiles for 33 low-redshift Lyman continuum (LyC) leakers, and Ly$\alpha$ modeling for a subset of six objects, using a multiphase, clumpy circumgalactic…

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

We calibrate here cosmological radiative transfer simulation with ATON/RAMSES with a range of measurements of the Lyman alpha opacity from QSO absorption spectra. We find the Lyman alpha opacity to be very sensitive to the exact timing of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Jonathan Chardin , Martin G. Haehnelt , Dominique Aubert , Ewald Puchwein

Detections and non-detections of Lyman alpha (Ly$\alpha$) emission from $z>6$ galaxies ($<1$ Gyr after the Big Bang) can be used to measure the timeline of cosmic reionization. Of key interest to measuring reionization's mid-stages, but…

Existing ubiquitously in the Universe with the highest luminosity, the Lyman-$\alpha$ emission line encodes abundant physical information about the gaseous medium it interacts with. Nevertheless, the resonant nature of Ly$\alpha$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-11 Zhihui Li , Max Gronke

The large cross-section of the Lyman alpha (Lya) line makes it a sensitive probe of the ionization state of the intergalactic medium (IGM). Here we present the most complete study to date of the IGM Lya opacity, and its application to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Andrei Mesinger , Aycin Aykutalp , Eros Vanzella , Laura Pentericci , Andrea Ferrara , Mark Dijkstra

Mapping of multiple lines such as the fine-structure emission from [CII] (157.7 $\mu \text{m}$), [OIII] (52 \& 88.4 $\mu \text{m}$), and rotational emission lines from CO are of particular interest for upcoming line intensity mapping (LIM)…

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