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We study the distribution of low-redshift Ly$\alpha$ clouds in a CDM model using numerical simulations including photoionization and cooling of the baryonic component. The ionizing background is found to be efficient enough to keep most of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Patrick Petitjean , Jan P. Mücket , Ron Kates

We report the detection of extended Lyman-alpha (Lya) haloes around 145 individual star-forming galaxies at redshifts 3<z<6 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field observed with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer at ESO-VLT. Our sample consists…

We study the evolution with redshift of the number density of Ly$\alpha$ clouds in a CDM model using numerical simulations including photo-ionization and cooling of the baryonic component. The photo-ionizing flux is consistently taken as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 Jan P. Mücket , Patrick Petitjean , Ronald E. Kates , Rüdiger Riediger

(Abridged) A large fraction of the gas in galactic haloes has temperatures between 10^4.5 and 10^7 K. At these temperatures, cooling is dominated by metal-line emission if the metallicity Z>~0.1 Zsun. We explore the detectability of several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Freeke van de Voort , Joop Schaye

We present near-infrared spectra obtained to search for Pa-alpha and molecular hydrogen lines in edge-darkened (FR I-type) radio galaxies with bright Halpha emission in the redshift range 0.0535<z<0.15. We find that all three galaxies in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Heino Falcke , M. J. Rieke , G. H. Rieke , Chris Simpson , Andrew S. Wilson

Spatially resolved studies of high redshift galaxies, an essential insight into galaxy formation processes, have been mostly limited to stacking or unusually bright objects. We present here the study of a typical (L$^{*}$, M$_\star$ = 6…

We report new HST COS and STIS spectroscopy of a star-forming region (~100 solar masses/year) in the center of the X-ray cluster RXJ1532.9+3021 (z=0.362), to follow-up the CLASH team discovery of luminous UV filaments and knots in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Megan Donahue , Thomas Connor , G. Mark Voit , Marc Postman

The Lyman-alpha (Lya) emission has played an important role in detecting high-redshift galaxies, including recently distant ones at redshift z > 7. It may also contain important information on the origin of these galaxies. Here, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-12 Hidenobu Yajima , Yuexing Li , Qirong Zhu , Tom Abel

We present one-dimensional models of the hot gas in dark-matter halos, which both predict the existence of cool cores and explain their structure. Our models are directly applicable to semi-analytic models (SAMs) of galaxy formation. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Prateek Sharma , Michael McCourt , Ian J. Parrish , Eliot Quataert

Lyman alpha (Lya) emission lines should be attenuated in a neutral intergalactic medium (IGM). Therefore the visibility of Lya emitters at high redshifts can serve as a valuable probe of reionization at about the 50% level. We present an…

We summarize and reanalyze observations bearing upon missing galactic baryons, where we propose a consistent picture for halo gas in L >~ L* galaxies. The hot X-ray emitting halos are detected to 50-70 kpc, where typically, M_hot(<50 kpc) ~…

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

The post-recombination streaming of baryons through dark matter keeps baryons out of low mass (<10^6 solar masses) halos coherently on scales of a few comoving Mpc. It has been argued that this will have a large impact on the 21-cm signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-24 Jonathan M. Bittner , Abraham Loeb

Recent stacked ALMA observations have revealed that normal, star-forming galaxies at $z\approx 6$ are surrounded by extended ($\approx 10\,\mathrm{kpc}$) [CII] emitting halos which are not predicted by the most advanced, zoom-in…

We discuss the recent Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey measurement of a rather high bias factor for the host galaxies/haloes of Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers (DLAs), in the context of our previous modelling of the physical properties…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-06 Luke A. Barnes , Martin G. Haehnelt

We present a study of the Ly\alpha forest at z<0.4 from which we conclude that at least 20% of the total baryons in the universe are located in the highly-ionized gas traced by broad Ly\alpha absorbers. The cool photoionized low-z…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Lehner , B. D. Savage , P. Richter , K. R. Sembach , T. M. Tripp , B. P. Wakker

Early-type galaxies often contain a hot X-ray emitting interstellar medium (3-8E6 K) with an apparent radiative cooling time much less than a Hubble time. If unopposed by a heating mechanism, the gas will radiatively cool to temperatures <=…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joel N. Bregman , Eric D. Miller , Alex E. Athey , Jimmy A. Irwin

Neutral hydrogen traces gravitational potentials. In the nearby universe, 21cm emission-line surveys show that the bulk of the HI resides in well-formed, optically-luminous galaxies. At high redshift, 21cm line absorption against background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. H. Briggs

We study the average Ly$\alpha$ emission associated with high-$z$ strong (log $N$(H I) $\ge$ 21) damped Ly$\alpha$ systems (DLAs). We report Ly$\alpha$ luminosities ($L_{\rm Ly\alpha}$) for the full as well as various sub-samples based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Ravi Joshi , Raghunathan Srianand , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Patrick Petitjean

We present a physically motivated semi-analytic model to understand the clustering of high redshift Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs). We show that the model parameters constrained by the observed luminosity functions, can be used to predict…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Charles Jose , Raghunathan Srianand , Kandaswamy Subramanian