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We report the discovery of Lyman-alpha emission (Ly$\alpha$) in the bright galaxy EGSY-2008532660 (hereafter EGSY8p7) using the MOSFIRE spectrograph at the Keck Observatory. First reported by Roberts-Borsani et al. (2015), it was selected…

We report new spectroscopy of two star-forming galaxies with strong Ly_alpha emission at z=6.03 and z=6.04 in the Subaru Deep Field. These two objects are originally selected as i'-dropouts (i'-z' > 1.5) showing an interesting photometric…

We present deep narrow-band (lambda = 5390 Angstroms, delta lambda = 77 Angstroms) and multi-color observations of the Hubble Deep Field and the Hawaii Deep Field SSA22 obtained with the LRIS instrument at the Keck II 10-m telescope. It is…

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We present results from a blind, spectroscopic survey for redshift ~5.7 Lyman-alpha-emitting galaxies using the Inamori Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrograph. A total of ~200 square arcminutes were observed in the COSMOS and LCIRS fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Crystal L. Martin , Marcin Sawicki , Alan Dressler , Pat McCarthy

We report a search for z=7 Ly-alpha emitters (LAEs) using a custom-made Narrow-Band filter, centered at 9755 Angstroms, with the instrument Suprime-Cam installed at the Subaru telescope. We observed two different fields and obtained two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Pascale Hibon , Nobunari Kashikawa , Christopher Willott , Masanori Iye , Takatoshi Shibuya

We present a redshift z=6.535 galaxy discovered by its Lyman alpha emission in a 9180A narrowband image from the Large Area Lyman Alpha (LALA) survey. The Ly-a line luminosity (1.1e43 erg/s) is among the largest known for star forming…

We present the results of a search for Lyman-alpha emission galaxies at z~ 5.7 in the FORS Deep Field. The objective of this study is to improve the faint end of the luminosity function of high-redshift Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies and to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Tapken , I. Appenzeller , A. Gabasch , J. Heidt , U. Hopp , R. Bender , D. Mehlert , S. Noll , S. Seitz , W. Seifert

(Abridged) We use deep VLT optical and near-IR spectroscopy and deep Spitzer/IRAC imaging to examine the properties of two of the most luminous Lyman alpha emitters at z=5.7. The continuum red-ward of the Lyman alpha line is clearly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 C. Lidman , M. Hayes , D. H. Jones , D. Schaerer , E. Westra , C. Tapken , K. Meisenheimer , A. Verhamme

We present spectroscopic observations with VLT/XSHOOTER and Subaru/MOIRCS of a relatively bright Y-band drop-out galaxy in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, first selected by Bunker et al. (2010), McLure et al. (2010) and Bouwens et al. (2010)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Andrew J. Bunker , Joseph Caruana , Stephen M. Wilkins , Elizabeth R. Stanway , Silvio Lorenzoni , Mark Lacy , Matt J. Jarvis , Samantha Hickey

We present a deep, narrow J-band search for proto--galactic Lyman Alpha emission at redshifts z~9. We combine an exceptionally deep image of the Hubble Deep Field South, obtained using a narrow band filter centred on the wavelength 1.187…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. P. Willis , F. Courbin

Context: Many current and future surveys aim to detect the highest redshift (z >~ 7) sources through their Lyman-alpha (Ly-alpha) emission, using the narrow-band imaging method. However, to date the surveys have only yielded non-detections…

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We present the properties of Ly Alpha emitters (LAEs) at z = 5.7 in the Subaru Deep Field. A photometric sample of 89 LAE candidates is constructed from narrow-band (NB816) data down to NB816 = 26.0 (AB) in a continuous 725 arcmin^2 area.…

We present a first instalment of the MUSE-Wide survey, covering an area of 22.2 arcmin$^2$ (corresponding to $\sim$20% of the final survey) in the CANDELS/Deep area of the Chandra Deep Field South. We use the MUSE integral field…

We report the discovery of a Lyman-alpha-emitting galaxy at redshift z=6.545 serendipitously identified in the course of spectroscopic follow-up of hard X-ray sources on behalf of the Serendipitous Extragalactic X-Ray Source Identification…

We report observations of a luminous unresolved object at redshift z = 4.62, with a featureless optical spectrum redward of the Lyman alpha forest region, discovered from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) commissioning data. The redshift is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 SDSS Collaboration , Xiaohui Fan

Eighteen candidates for emission line galaxies were discovered in a narrow-band infrared survey that targeted the redshifts of damped Lyman-alpha or metal lines in the spectra of quasars. The presence of emission lines is inferred from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 F. Mannucci , D. Thompson , S. V. W. Beckwith , G. M. Williger

We discuss new observational constraints on the abundance of faint high redshift Lyman-alpha emitters secured from a deep Keck near-infrared spectroscopic survey which utilizes the strong magnification provided by lensing galaxy clusters at…

We present very deep imaging observations, through a narrow-band filter tuned to Lyman alpha at <z = 3.09>, of a volume containing a significant over-density of galaxies at this redshift previously discovered in our survey for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. C. Steidel , K. L. Adelberger , A. E. Shapley , M. Pettini , M. Dickinson , M. Giavalisco

We present a study of Lyman continuum (LyC) emission in a sample of $\sim$150 Ly$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) at $z\approx3.1$ in the Subaru-XMM Deep Survey field. These LAEs were previously selected using the narrowband technique and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-12 Yuchen Liu , Linhua Jiang , Rogier A. Windhorst , Yucheng Guo , Zhenya Zheng

We present Gemini/GNIRS spectroscopic observations of 4 z-band (z~7) dropout galaxies and VLT/XSHOOTER observations of one z-band dropout and 3 Y-band (z~8-9) dropout galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which were selected with Wide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Joseph Caruana , Andrew J. Bunker , Stephen M. Wilkins , Elizabeth R. Stanway , Mark Lacy , Matt J. Jarvis , Silvio Lorenzoni , Samantha Hickey