Mergers Drive Structural Complexity but Not Starbursts in Lyman-$\alpha$ Emitters at $3<z<4$: A JWST Spatially Resolved View

Qi Song, F. S. Liu, Jian Ren +6

Recent observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal that the merger fraction among Ly$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) at redshifts $z>3$ is significantly higher than previou…