Saas-Fee Lecture Notes: Physics of Lyman Alpha Radiative Transfer

Abstract

Lecture notes for 8 lectures on the `Physics of Lyman alpha Radiative Transfer', given at the 46th Saas-Fee winter school held in Les Diablerets, Switzerland on March 13-19 2016. These lectures aimed at offering basic insights into Lyman alpha (Lya) radiative processes including emission processes and Lya radiative transfer, and highlighting some of the physics associated with these processes. The notes include derivations in greater detail than what was discussed during the lectures.

80 pages, 55 figures. Chapter 4.2 and parts of Chapter 8 & 10 contain extended versions of sections from my reviews published in 2014 & 2016. Comments/questions welcome

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• A Characteristic Scale for Cold Gas
• First Results from the Lyman Alpha Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization (LAGER) Survey: Cosmological Reionization at z ~ 7

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