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most citedThe Low-Redshift Lyman Continuum Survey I: New, Diverse Local Lyman-Continuum Emitters

180 citations · 928 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Recovering Ionizing Photon Escape and Galaxy Scaling Relations in the LzLCS via Si II and C II Absorption Lines and Mock Spectra from a Radiation-Hydrodynamic Simulation

John Trevino, Simon Gazagnes, Danielle A. Berg +7

In this work, we use a radiation-hydrodynamic simulation of a single virtual galaxy to study Si II and C II line profiles seen in stacked HST/COS spectra of 58…

astro-ph.GA2026

The SPHINX public data release. II. Using low-ionisation absorption lines and dust attenuation to predict Lyman continuum escape

Valentin Mauerhofer, Jérémy Blaizot, Thibault Garel +11

Low-ionisation state (LIS) absorption lines, such as SiII 1526, are widely used to trace the properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies. These lines provide crucial in…

astro-ph.GA2026

ARCHITECTS II: Impact of subgrid physics on the observable properties of the circumgalactic medium

Maxime Rey, Jérémy Blaizot, Taysun Kimm +3

Galaxy evolution is driven by star formation and stellar feedback on scales unresolved by current high-resolution cosmological simulations, requiring robust subgrid models. However…

astro-ph.GA2025

Black Hole merger rates in the first billion years in light of JWST data

P. F. V. Cáceres-Burgos, P. Dayal, P. Lira +3

Context. Recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discoveries have unveiled an abundance of faint and massive Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) at high redshifts (z=4-9), that surpass…

astro-ph.GA2025

CLASSY XIII. Cutting through the Clouds - Comparing Indirect Tracers of Ionizing Photon Escape

Kaelee S. Parker, Danielle A. Berg, John Chisholm +25

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) provides critical insights into the role of early galaxies in shaping the ionization state of the universe. However, because of the opacity of the i…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 23 cited

Synergising semi-analytical models and hydrodynamical simulations to interpret JWST data from the first billion years

Valentin Mauerhofer, Pratika Dayal, Martin G. Haehnelt +3

The field of high redshift galaxy formation has been revolutionised by JWST, which is yielding unprecedented insights on galaxy assembly at early times. Our key aim is to study the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

A Simulated Galaxy Laboratory: Exploring the Observational Effects on UV Spectral Absorption Line Measurements

R. Michael Jennings, Alaina Henry, Valentin Mauerhofer +13

Ultraviolet absorption line spectroscopy is a sensitive diagnostic for the properties of interstellar and circumgalactic gas. Down-the-barrel observations, where the absorption is…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

A public grid of radiative transfer simulations for Lyman-alpha and metal lines in idealised galactic outflows

Thibault Garel, Léo Michel-Dansac, Anne Verhamme +5

The vast majority of star-forming galaxies are surrounded by large reservoirs of gas ejected from the interstellar medium. Ultraviolet absorption and emission lines represent power…

astro-ph.GA2024

The MUSE eXtremely Deep Field: Detections of circumgalactic SiII* emission at z>~2

Haruka Kusakabe, Valentin Mauerhofer, Anne Verhamme +17

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) serves as a baryon reservoir that connects galaxies to the intergalactic medium and fuels star formation. The spatial distribution of the metal-enri…

astro-ph.GA2024

Comparing the VANDELS sample to a zoom-in Radiative Hydrodynamical Simulation: using the Si II and C II line spectra as tracers of galaxy evolution and Lyman Continuum leakage

Simon Gazagnes, Fergus Cullen, Valentin Mauerhofer +8

We compare mock ultraviolet C II and Si II absorption and emission line features generated using a ~10 virtual galaxy with observations of 131 galaxies from the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

Modelling LAEs in the Epoch of Reionization with OBELISK

Emma Giovinazzo, Maxime Trebitsch, Valentin Mauerhofer +2

Lya emitters (LAEs) are particularly useful objects for the study of the Epoch of Reionization. Lya profiles can be used to estimate the amount of ionizing photons that are able to…

astro-ph.GA2023

Lyman Continuum Leaker Candidates at in the HDUV Based on a Spectroscopic Sample of MUSE LAEs

J. Kerutt, P. A. Oesch, L. Wisotzki +15

In recent years, a number of Lyman continuum (LyC) leaker candidates at intermediate redshifts have been found, providing insight into how the Universe was reionised at early cosmi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

The ALMA REBELS survey: obscured star formation in massive Lyman-break galaxies at z = 4-8 revealed by the IRX- and relations

R. A. A. Bowler, H. Inami, L. Sommovigo +23

We investigate the degree of dust obscured star formation in 49 massive () Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at - observed as par…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

Predictions of the 21cm global signal in the JWST and ALMA era

Atrideb Chatterjee, Pratika Dayal, Valentin Mauerhofer

We calculate the redshift evolution of the global 21cm signal in the first billion years using a semi-analytic galaxy formation model, DELPHI, that jointly tracks the assembly of d…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

Interpreting the Si II and C II line spectra from the COS Legacy Spectroscopic SurveY using a virtual galaxy from a high-resolution radiation-hydrodynamic simulation

Simon Gazagnes, Valentin Mauerhofer, Danielle A. Berg +19

Observations of low-ionization state (LIS) metal lines provide crucial insights into the interstellar medium of galaxies, yet, disentangling the physical processes responsible for…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 8 cited

The dust enrichment of early galaxies in the JWST and ALMA era

Valentin Mauerhofer, Pratika Dayal

Recent observations with the James Webb Space Telescope are yielding tantalizing hints of an early population of massive, bright galaxies at , with Atacama Large Millimeter…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 158 cited

The Far-Ultraviolet Continuum Slope as a Lyman Continuum Escape Estimator at High-redshift

J. Chisholm, A. Saldana-Lopez, S. Flury +25

Most of the hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) was rapidly ionized at high-redshifts. While observations have established that reionization occurred, observational constrai…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 36 cited

MgII in the JWST Era: a Probe of Lyman Continuum Escape?

Harley Katz, Thibault Garel, Joakim Rosdahl +7

Limited constraints on the evolution of the Lyman Continuum (LyC) escape fraction represent one of the primary uncertainties in the theoretical determination of the reionization hi…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 34 cited

Predicting LyC emission of galaxies using their physical and Ly emission properties

Moupiya Maji, Anne Verhamme, Joakim Rosdahl +9

The primary difficulty in understanding the sources and processes that powered cosmic reionization is that it is not possible to directly probe the ionizing Lyman Continuum (LyC) r…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 164 cited

The Low-Redshift Lyman Continuum Survey II: New Insights into LyC Diagnostics

Sophia R. Flury, Anne E. Jaskot, Harry C. Ferguson +44

The Lyman continuum (LyC) cannot be observed at the epoch of reionization (z {\gtrsim} 6) due to intergalactic H I absorption. To identify Lyman continuum emitters (LCEs) and infer…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 44 cited

Equivalent widths of Lyman emitters in MUSE-Wide and MUSE-Deep

J. Kerutt, L. Wisotzki, A. Verhamme +15

The aim of this study is to better understand the connection between the Lyman rest-frame equivalent width (EW) and spectral properties as well as ultraviolet (UV) continuu…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 180 cited

The Low-Redshift Lyman Continuum Survey I: New, Diverse Local Lyman-Continuum Emitters

Sophia R. Flury, Anne E. Jaskot, Harry C. Ferguson +44

The origins of Lyman continuum (LyC) photons responsible for the reionization of the universe are as of yet unknown and highly contested. Detecting LyC photons from the epoch of re…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 92 cited

The Low-Redshift Lyman Continuum Survey. Unveiling the ISM properties of low- Lyman continuum emitters

Alberto Saldana-Lopez, Daniel Schaerer, John Chisholm +24

Combining 66 ultraviolet (UV) spectra and ancillary data from the Low-Redshift Lyman Continuum Survey (LzLCS) and 23 LyC observations by earlier studies, we form a statistical samp…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 27 cited

Recovery and analysis of rest-frame UV emission lines in 2052 galaxies observed with MUSE at

K. B. Schmidt, J. Kerutt, L. Wisotzki +17

[Abbreviated] Rest-frame UV emission lines probe physical parameters of the emitting star-forming galaxies and their environments. The strongest main UV line, Ly, has been instr…