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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…

The next generation of telescopes aim to directly observe the first generation of galaxies that initiated the reionization process in our Universe. The Lyman Alpha (Lya) emission line is robustly predicted to be the most prominent intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-16 Mark Dijkstra

Lyman alpha galaxies at high redshifts offer a powerful probe of both the formation of galaxies and the reionization of the intergalactic medium. Lyman alpha line emission is an efficient tool for identifying young galaxies at high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 James E. Rhoads , Sangeeta Malhotra

We study the visibility of the Lyman Alpha (Lya) emission line during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Combining galactic outflow models with large-scale semi-numeric simulations of reionization, we quantify the probability distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Mark Dijkstra , Andrei Mesinger , Stuart Wyithe

Hydrogen Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) emission has been one of the major observational probes for the high redshift universe, since the first discoveries of high-$z$ Ly$\alpha$ emitting galaxies in the late 1990s. Due to the strong…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Masami Ouchi , Yoshiaki Ono , Takatoshi Shibuya

The resonant scattering interaction between Ly$\alpha$ photons and neutral hydrogen implies that a partially neutral IGM can significantly impact the detectability of Ly$\alpha$ emission in galaxies. The redshift evolution of the Ly$\alpha$…

A significant fraction of the high-redshift galaxies show strong Lyman emission lines. For redshifts z>5, most known galaxies belong to this class. However, so far not much is known about the physical structure and nature of these objects.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Tapken , I. Appenzeller , S. Noll , S. Richling , J. Heidt , E. Meinkoehn , D. Mehlert

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

Spectroscopic observations of massive $z>7$ galaxies selected to have extremely large [OIII]+H$\beta$ equivalent width (EW $\sim1500$ \r{A}) have recently revealed large Ly$\alpha$ detection rates, in contrast to the weak emission seen in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Mengtao Tang , Daniel Stark , Jacopo Chevallard , Stephane Charlot , Ryan Endsley , Enrico Congiu

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…

Ly$\alpha$ emission is widely used to detect and confirm high-redshift galaxies and characterize the evolution of the intergalactic medium. However, many galaxies do not display Ly$\alpha$ emission in typical spectroscopic observations, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Ryan F. Trainor , Allison L. Strom , Charles C. Steidel , Gwen C. Rudie , Yuguang Chen , Rachel L. Theios

Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) emission from galaxies can be used to trace neutral hydrogen in the epoch of reionization, however, there is a degeneracy between the attenuation of Ly$\alpha$ in the intergalactic medium (IGM) and the line profile…

We present a new flexible Bayesian framework for directly inferring the fraction of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR, z~6-10) from detections and non-detections of Lyman Alpha…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Charlotte A. Mason , Tommaso Treu , Mark Dijkstra , Andrei Mesinger , Michele Trenti , Laura Pentericci , Stephane de Barros , Eros Vanzella

We calculate the impact of the intergalactic medium (IGM) on the observed Lyman alpha lines (hereafter Lya) emitted by galaxies in an ionised IGM at z>4. Our model accounts for gas clumping in the IGM and for the fact that high-redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark Dijkstra , Adam Lidz , Stuart Wyithe

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

Lyman $\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) is now routinely used as a tool for studying high-redshift galaxies and its resonant nature means it can trace neutral hydrogen around star-forming galaxies. Integral field spectrograph measurements of…

We present a new model for high redshift Lyman-Alpha Emitters (LAEs) in the cosmological context which takes into account the resonant scattering of Ly-a photons through expanding gas. The GALICS semi-analytic model provides us with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Thibault Garel , Jérémy Blaizot , Bruno Guiderdoni , Daniel Schaerer , Anne Verhamme , Matthew Hayes

The next generation of telescopes aim to directly observe the first generation of galaxies that initiated the reionization process in our Universe. The Lyman Alpha (Lya) emission line is robustly predicted to be the most prominent intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mark Dijkstra , Stuart Wyithe

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) represents a milestone in the evolution of our Universe. Star-forming galaxies that existed during the EoR likely emitted a significant fraction (~5-40%) of their bolometric luminosity as Lyman Alpha (Lya)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Mark Dijkstra

Lyman-alpha (Lya) photons that escape the interstellar medium of star-forming galaxies may be resonantly scattered by neutral hydrogen atoms in the circumgalactic and intergalactic media, thereby increasing the angular extent of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Zheng Zheng , Renyue Cen , David Weinberg , Hy Trac , Jordi Miralda-Escude
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