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We investigate the Lyman alpha line transfer in nearby and high redshift starbursting galaxies, where the effect of high optical depths and the role of dust in the scattering medium are expected to be conspicuous and should be treated in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sang-Hyeon Ahn , Hee-Won Lee , Hyung Mok Lee

Using a Monte Carlo technique, we have developed a 3D lyman-alpha radiation transfer code allowing for prescribed arbitrary hydrogen density, ionisation, temperature structures, and dust distribution, and arbitrary velocity fields and UV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Anne Verhamme , Daniel Schaerer , Antonella Maselli

Aims: We aim to study the effects of an inhomogeneous interstellar medium (ISM) on the strength and the shape of the Lyman alpha (Lya) line in starburst galaxies. Methods: Using our 3D Monte Carlo Lya radiation transfer code, we study the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Florent Duval , Daniel Schaerer , Göran Östlin , Peter Laursen

P-Cygni type Lya profiles exhibited in nearly half of starburst galaxies, both nearby and high-z, are believed to be formed by an expanding supershell surrounding a star-forming region. We apply the Monte Carlo code which was developed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sang-Hyeon Ahn , Hee-Won Lee , Hyung Mok Lee

A Monte Carlo code to solve the transfer of Lyman alpha (Lya) photons is developed, which can predict the Lya image and two-dimensional Lya spectra of a hydrogen cloud with any given geometry, Lya emissivity, neutral hydrogen density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Zheng Zheng , Jordi Miralda-Escude

We present constrained radiative transfer calculations of Lyman Alpha (Lya) photons propagating through clumpy, dusty, large scale outflows, and explore whether we can quantitatively explain the Lya halos that have been observed around…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Mark Dijkstra , Roban Hultman Kramer

We developed a Monte Carlo code that describes the resonant Lyman alpha line transfer in an optically thick, dusty, and static medium. The code was tested against the analytic formula derived by Neufeld (1990). We explain the line transfer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Sang-Hyeon Ahn , Hee-Won Lee , Hyung-Mok Lee

We present Monte Carlo calculations of Lyman alpha (Lya) radiative transfer through collapsing gas clouds, representing proto-galaxies that are caught in the process of their assembly. Such galaxies produce Lya flux over an extended solid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark Dijkstra , Zoltan Haiman , Marco Spaans

We present results of Monte Carlo calculations for the Lya line transfer in an expanding dusty supershell, where Lya source is a well-localized star cluster in a starburst galaxy.The escape of Lya photons from such system is achieved by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sang-Hyeon Ahn

We have investigated the linear polarisation of Lya transferred in a static, dustless, and thick plane-parallel slab that is uniformly filled with neutral hydrogen. Because the scattering phase function is characterised by the dipole type…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hee-Won Lee , Sang-Hyeon Ahn

Hydrogen Ly-alpha is our primary emission-line window into high redshift galaxies. Surprisingly, despite an extensive literature, Ly-alpha radiative transfer in the most realistic case of a dusty, multi-phase medium has not received…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthew Hansen , S. Peng Oh

Lya is a key diagnostic for numerous observations of distant star-forming galaxies. It's interpretation requires, however, detailed radiation transfer models. We provide an extensive grid of 3D radiation transfer models simulating the Lya…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Daniel Schaerer , Matthew Hayes , Anne Verhamme , Romain Teyssier

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

We present reduced and calibrated high resolution Lyman-alpha (Lya) images for a sample of 6 local star forming galaxies. Targets were selected to represent a range in luminosity and metallicity and to include both known Lya emitters and…

We combine a cosmological reionization simulation with box size of 100Mpc/h on a side and a Monte Carlo Lyman-alpha (Lya) radiative transfer code to model Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) at z~5.7. The model introduces Lya radiative transfer as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Zheng Zheng , Renyue Cen , Hy Trac , Jordi Miralda-Escude

The Lyman alpha emission line is an essential diagnostic tool for probing galaxy formation and evolution. Not only is it commonly the strongest observable line from high-redshift galaxies but from its shape detailed information about its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Peter Laursen , Jesper Sommer-Larsen , Anja C. Andersen

Star-forming regions in galaxies are surrounded by vast reservoirs of gas capable of both emitting and absorbing Lyman-alpha (Lya) radiation. Observations of Lya emitters and spatially extended Lya haloes indeed provide insights into the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 Bing-Xin Lao , Aaron Smith

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

Various types of galaxies observed in the cosmological scales show P-Cygni type profiles in the Lyman alpha emission lines. A Monte Carlo code is developed to investigate the Lyman alpha line transfer in an optically thick and moving medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Sang-Hyeon Ahn , Hee-Won Lee

The hydrogen Lyman-alpha (Lya) emission line, the brightest spectral feature of a photoionized gas, is considered an indirect tracer of the escape of Lyman continuum (LyC) photons, particularly when the intergalactic medium is too opaque…

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