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Lyman-$\alpha$ spheres, i.e. regions around the first stars which are illuminated by Lyman-$\alpha$ photons and show 21cm absorption feature against the CMB, are smoking guns at the dawn of the reionization epoch. Though overwhelming radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Guoliang Li , Pengjie Zhang , Xuelei Chen

The early stage in the formation of a galaxy inevitably involves a spatially extended distribution of infalling, cold gas. If a central luminous quasar turned on during this phase, it would result in significant extended Lyman alpha…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Zoltan Haiman , Martin J. Rees

IRAC data have long implied that early ($z\gtrsim6$) galaxies often have very high specific star formation rates (sSFR$\gtrsim$30 Gyr$^{-1}$), but JWST data have shown that at least some early galaxies are forming stars far less vigorously.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-04 Ryan Endsley , John Chisholm , Daniel P. Stark , Michael W. Topping , Lily Whitler

We report the observation of a further asymmetric, extended Lyman alpha emitting halo at z=2.63, from our ultra-deep, long-slit spectroscopic survey of faint high redshift emitters, undertaken with Magellan LDSS3 in the GOODS-S field. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Michael Rauch , George D. Becker , Martin G. Haehnelt , Jean-Rene Gauthier , Wallace L. W. Sargent

We use a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation of a cold dark matter universe to investigate theoretically the relationship between high redshift galaxies and the Lyman=alpha forest at redshift z=3. Galaxies in the simulation are surrounded…

We investigate the response of the star formation efficiency (SFE) to the main parameters of simulations of molecular cloud formation by the collision of warm diffuse medium (WNM) cylindrical streams, neglecting stellar feedback and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Yetli Rosas-Guevara , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Gilberto C. Gomez , A. -Katharina Jappsen

High redshift galaxies selected on the basis of their strong Lyman-alpha emission tend to be young ages and small physical sizes. We show this by analyzing the spectral energy distribution (SED) of 9 Lyman-alpha emitting (LAE) galaxies at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Norbert Pirzkal , Sangeeta Malhotra , James E. Rhoads , Chun Xu

We present evidence for stochastic star formation histories in low-mass (M* < 10^10 Msun) galaxies from observations within the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. For ~73,000 galaxies between 0.05<z<0.32, we calculate star formation…

Abundances of N, Si, S, and Fe for 45 damped Lyman alpha systems (DLAs) have been compiled and detailed one-zone chemical evolution models have been constructed for 30 of them. Assuming continuous star formation, we found that final…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. B. C. Henry , Jason X. Prochaska

We present an exhaustive census of Lyman alpha (Ly$\alpha$) emission in the general galaxy population at $3<z<4.6$. We use the Michigan/Magellan Fiber System (M2FS) spectrograph to study a stellar mass (M$_*$) selected sample of 625…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-17 Grecco A. Oyarzún , Guillermo A. Blanc , Valentino González , Mario Mateo , John I. Bailey

We derive the luminosity function of high-redshift Lyman alpha emitting sources from a deep, blind, spectroscopic survey that utilized strong-lensing magnification by intermediate-redshift clusters of galaxies. We observed carefully…

Observations of the Lyman-alpha forest and of high-redshift galaxies at z~5-10 imply that there were just enough photons to maintain the universe in an ionized state at z~5-6, indicating a "photon-starved" end to reionization. The ionizing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Marcelo A. Alvarez , Kristian Finlator , Michele Trenti

We analyze the first giant molecular cloud (GMC) simulation to follow the formation of individual stars and their feedback from jets, radiation, winds, and supernovae, using the STARFORGE framework in the GIZMO code. We evolve the GMC for…

On dwarf galaxy scales, the different shapes of the galaxy stellar mass function and the dark halo mass function require a star-formation efficiency (SFE) in these systems that is currently more than 1 dex lower than that of Milky Way-size…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Piero Madau , Daniel R. Weisz , Charlie Conroy

We determine the abundance of i'-band drop-outs in the HST/ACS GOODS surveys and the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF). The majority of these sources are likely to be z~6 galaxies whose flux decrement arises from Lyman-alpha absorption. We have…

Bursty star formation at early times can explain the surprising abundance of early UV-bright galaxies revealed by JWST but can also be a reason for the delayed formation of galactic disks in high-resolution cosmological simulations. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-05 Vadim A. Semenov , Charlie Conroy , Lars Hernquist

The first generation of stars produces a background of Lyman-Werner (LW) radiation which can photo-dissociate molecular hydrogen, increasing the mass of dark matter halos required to host star formation. Previous studies have determined the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Eli Visbal , Zoltan Haiman , Bryan Terrazas , Greg L. Bryan , Rennan Barkana

Infrared (IR) luminosity of galaxies originating from dust emission can be used as an indicator of the star formation rate (SFR). Inoue et al. (2000, IHK) have derived a formula for the conversion from IR luminosity to SFR by using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hiroyuki Hirashita , Veronique Buat , Akio K. Inoue

Several studies have detected Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) from bright ($M_\mathrm{UV}\lesssim-21.5$) galaxies during the early stages of reionization despite the significantly neutral intergalactic medium. To explain these detections, it has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-16 Lily Whitler , Daniel P. Stark , Ryan Endsley , Zuyi Chen , Charlotte Mason , Michael W. Topping , Stéphane Charlot

We present the predictions for the photometric and emission line properties of galaxies present during the latter stages of reionization from z=8 to 6. These preliminary predictions are made from cosmological hydrodynamic simulations that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Romeel Davé