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 …

JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of z = 7–9 star-forming galaxies with CEERS: new insight into bright Lyα emitters in ionized bubbles

M Tang, DP Stark, Z Chen, C Mason… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We describe new JWST/NIRSpec observations of galaxies at z≳ 7 taken from the CEERS
survey. Previous observations of this area have revealed associations of Lyα emitters at …

The universe is reionizing at z∼ 7: bayesian inference of the IGM neutral fraction using Lyα emission from galaxies

CA Mason, T Treu, M Dijkstra, A Mesinger… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

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 …

Large Population of ALMA Galaxies at z> 6 with Very High [O iii] 88 μm to [C ii] 158 μm Flux Ratios: Evidence of Extremely High Ionization Parameter or PDR Deficit?

Y Harikane, M Ouchi, AK Inoue… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present our new Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations
targeting [O iii] 88 μm,[C ii] 158 μm,[N ii] 122 μm, and dust-continuum emission for three …

Big Three Dragons: A z = 7.15 Lyman-break galaxy detected in [O iii] 88 μm, [C ii] 158 μm, and dust continuum with ALMA

T Hashimoto, AK Inoue, K Mawatari… - Publications of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present new ALMA observations and physical properties of a Lyman break galaxy at z=
7.15. Our target, B14-65666, has a bright ultra-violet (UV) absolute magnitude, M UV≈ …

On the sizes of ionized bubbles around galaxies during the reionization epoch. The spectral shapes of the Lyα emission from galaxies

MJ Hayes, C Scarlata - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We develop a new method to determine the distance between a high-redshift galaxy and a
foreground screen of atomic hydrogen. In a partially neutral universe, and assuming …

Line-emitting galaxies beyond a redshift of 7: an improved method for estimating the evolving neutrality of the intergalactic medium

MA Schenker, RS Ellis, NP Konidaris… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The redshift-dependent fraction of color-selected galaxies revealing Lyman alpha (Lyα)
emission, x Lyα has become the most valuable constraint on the evolving neutrality of the …

Ionization state of inter-stellar medium in galaxies: evolution, SFR–M*Z dependence, and ionizing photon escape

K Nakajima, M Ouchi - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We present a systematic study for ionization state of inter-stellar medium in galaxies at z= 0–
with∼ 140 000 Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxies and 108 intermediate-to high …