Observations of the Lyman-α Universe

M Ouchi, Y Ono, T Shibuya - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Hydrogen Lyman-α (Lyα) emission has been one of the major observational probes for the
high-redshift Universe since the first discoveries of high-z Lyα-emitting galaxies in the late …

Galaxies in the first billion years after the Big Bang

DP Stark - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
In the past five years, deep imaging campaigns conducted with the Hubble Space
Telescope (HST) and ground-based observatories have delivered large samples of galaxies …

EIGER. I. A Large Sample of [O iii]-emitting Galaxies at 5.3< z< 6.9 and Direct Evidence for Local Reionization by Galaxies

D Kashino, SJ Lilly, J Matthee, AC Eilers… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
EIGER. I. A Large Sample of [O iii]-emitting Galaxies at 5.3 < z < 6.9 and Direct Evidence for
Local Reionization by Galaxies - IOPscience Skip to content IOP Science home Accessibility …

Lyα and C iii] emission in z = 7–9 Galaxies: accelerated reionization around luminous star-forming systems?

DP Stark, RS Ellis, S Charlot… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We discuss new Keck/MOSFIRE spectroscopic observations of four luminous galaxies at z≃
7–9 selected to have intense optical line emission by Roberts-Borsani et al. Previous follow …

Model-independent evidence in favour of an end to reionization by z ≈ 6

ID McGreer, A Mesinger… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present new upper limits on the volume-weighted neutral hydrogen fraction,, at z∼ 5–6
derived from spectroscopy of bright quasars. The fraction of the Lyα and Lyβ forests that is …

Full-data results of Hubble frontier fields: UV luminosity functions at z∼ 6–10 and a consistent picture of cosmic reionization

M Ishigaki, R Kawamata, M Ouchi, M Oguri… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present UV luminosity functions of dropout galaxies at~– z 6 10 with the complete
Hubble Frontier Fields data. We obtain a catalog of∼ 450 dropout-galaxy candidates (350 …

Evidence for PopIII-like stellar populations in the most luminous Lyα emitters at the epoch of reionization: spectroscopic confirmation

D Sobral, J Matthee, B Darvish… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Faint Lyα emitters become increasingly rarer toward the reionization epoch (z∼ 6–7).
However, observations from a very large (∼ 5 deg 2) Lyα narrow-band survey at z= 6.6 …

Systematic Identification of LAEs for Visible Exploration and Reionization Research Using Subaru HSC (SILVERRUSH). I. Program strategy and clustering properties …

M Ouchi, Y Harikane, T Shibuya… - Publications of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present the SILVERRUSH program strategy and clustering properties investigated
with∼ 2000 Lyα emitters (LAEs) at z= 5.7 and 6.6 found in the early data of the Hyper …

Searching for Islands of Reionization: A Potential Ionized Bubble Powered by a Spectroscopic Overdensity at z= 8.7

RL Larson, SL Finkelstein, TA Hutchison… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results from a spectroscopic survey using the MOSFIRE near-infrared
spectrograph on the 10 m Keck telescope to search for Lyα emission from candidate …

(Nearly) Model-independent Constraints on the Neutral Hydrogen Fraction in the Intergalactic Medium at z∼ 5–7 Using Dark Pixel Fractions in Lyα and Lyβ Forests

X Jin, J Yang, X Fan, F Wang, E Bañados… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Cosmic reionization was the last major phase transition of hydrogen from neutral to highly
ionized in the intergalactic medium (IGM). Current observations show that the IGM is …