Probing reionization with Lyman α emission lines

2003/08/11 by Michael R. Santos · 9 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Active galactic nucleus #Astronomy #Astrophysics #CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors #Galactic halo #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Halo #Physics #Redshift #Reionization #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07594.x

published as Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.349:1137,2004 · 17 pages, 25 figures, submitted to MNRAS

arxiv created 2003/08/11 · openalex publication_date 2004/04/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Strong Lyman α emission is present in many distant galaxies, and is an important signpost for discovering highredshift galaxies and, especially, measuring redshifts for them. The presence of strong Lyman α emission has been

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