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most citedFirst Results from the Lyman Alpha Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization (LAGER) Survey: Cosmological Reionization at z ~ 7

158 citations · 811 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Ly Escape in JWST/NIRCam F430M-Selected H Emitters at

Cheng Cheng, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Chunyan Jiang +8

We study the Ly escape fraction () in an H-selected sample of star-forming galaxies at , identified via JWST/NIRCam F430M excess and covered by archi…

astro-ph.GA2026

LCEz4-M1: A Lyman Continuum Emitter Candidate at z = 4.444 in the MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field

Shuairu Zhu, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Fuyan Bian +5

High-redshift Lyman continuum emitters (LCEs) are crucial for understanding how galaxies ionize the neutral hydrogen in the epoch of reionization. However, detected LCEs at a…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Local Analogs of Little Red Dots: Optical Variability and Evidence for an Active Galatic Nucleus Origin

Ruqiu Lin, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Junxian Wang +9

Little red dots (LRDs) draw extensive attention because of their unique observational characteristics and apparent overabundance in the early Universe, raising new insights into ea…

astro-ph.GA2026

Diversity in Lyman Continuum Escape at Revealed by WISE Infrared Observations

Fang-Ting Yuan, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Chunyan Jiang +1

The escape of Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation from star-forming galaxies plays a key role in cosmic reionization. While strong LyC leakers are commonly identified through ultraviol…

astro-ph.GA2025

Joint Analysis of Optical, Near-Infrared And Mid-Infrared Variability of 4 Quasars at Redshift < 1

Lin Long, Zhen-ya Zheng, Ning Jiang +8

Amid rapid advances in time-domain astronomy, multi-wavelength (e.g., optical and infrared) time-domain studies of quasars remain scarce. Here we present a systematic analysis of f…

astro-ph.GA2024

Discovery of Local Analogs to JWST's Little Red Dots

Ruqiu Lin, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Chunyan Jiang +12

Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a new class of high redshift (high-, ) compact galaxies which are red in the rest-frame optical and blue in the…

astro-ph.GA2024

Lyman Continuum Leakers at in the GOODS-S Field: Mergers Dominated

Shuairu Zhu, Zhen-ya Zheng, Fang-Ting Yuan +2

Understanding the ionizing photon escape from galaxies is essential for studying Cosmic Reionization. With a sample of 23 Lyman Continuum (LyC) leakers at in the GOODS-S…

astro-ph.GA2024

Merging Signatures in an Offset Lyman Continuum Emitter at Redshift 3.8

Fang-Ting Yuan, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Chunyan Jiang +3

Lyman continuum (LyC) emitters at provide critical samples for studying the contribution of galaxies to the ionizing background in the Epoch of Reionization. We collect a sam…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Green Pea Galaxies (IMBH-GP) I: a Candidate Sample from LAMOST and SDSS

Ruqiu Lin, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Fang-Ting Yuan +8

The scaling relation of central massive black holes (MBHs) and their host galaxies is well-studied for supermassive BHs (SMBHs, ). However, th…

astro-ph.GA2024

Lyman Continuum Leakers at in the GOODS-S Field: Starburst or Not?

Shuairu Zhu, Fang-Ting Yuan, Chunyan Jiang +2

We investigate the star-forming properties of 23 Lyman Continuum (LyC) leakers at z > 3 in the Great Observatories' Deep Survey-South (GOODS-S) field based on a systematic review o…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Hubble Deep Hydrogen Alpha (HDH) Project: I. Catalog of Emission-line Galaxies

Shuairu Zhu, Zhen-Ya Zheng, James Rhoads +14

We present the first results of the Hubble Deep Hydrogen Alpha (HDH) project, which analyzes the space-borne deep H narrowband imaging data in the GOODS-S region. The HDH…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Discovery of Five Green Pea Galaxies with Double-peaked Narrow [OIII] Lines

Ruqiu Lin, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Jun-Xian Wang +9

Although double-peaked narrow emission-line galaxies have been studied extensively in the past years, only a few are reported with the green pea galaxies (GPs). Here we present our…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 2 cited

On the Origin of the Strong Optical Variability of Emission-line Galaxies

Ruqiu Lin, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Weida Hu +9

Emission-line galaxies (ELGs) are crucial in understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies, while little is known about their variability. Here we report the study on the o…

astro-ph.GA2021

New spectroscopic confirmations of Lyman- emitters at z 7 from the LAGER survey

Santosh Harish, Isak G. B. Wold, Sangeeta Malhotra +14

We report spectroscopic confirmations of 15 Lyman-alpha galaxies at , implying a spectroscopic confirmation rate of 80% on candidates selected from LAGER (Lyman-Alpha…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 70 cited

LAGER Ly Luminosity Function at , Implications for Reionization

Isak G. B. Wold, Sangeeta Malhotra, James Rhoads +17

We present a new measurement of the Ly luminosity function at redshift , finding moderate evolution from that is consistent with a fully or largely ionized $z\sim…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 70 cited

A Lyman-α protocluster at redshift 6.9

Weida Hu, Junxian Wang, Leopoldo Infante +21

Protoclusters, the progenitors of the most massive structures in the Universe, have been identified at redshifts of up to 6.6. Besides exploring early structure formation, searchin…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 28 cited

A large, deep 3 deg survey of H, [OIII], and [OII] emitters from LAGER: constraining luminosity functions

Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Sangeeta Malhotra, James E. Rhoads +14

We present our measurements of the H, [OIII], and [OII] luminosity functions as part of the Lyman Alpha Galaxies at Epoch of Reionization (LAGER) survey using our samples of 157…

astro-ph.GA2019

Lyman Alpha Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization (LAGER): Spectroscopic Confirmation of Two Redshift ~ 7.0 Galaxies

Huan Yang, Leopoldo Infante, James E. Rhoads +7

We spectroscopically confirmed two narrow-band selected redshift 7.0 Ly galaxies and studied their restframe UV spectra. The Ly and other UV nebular lines are very useful to…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 12 cited

Design for the First Narrowband Filter for the Dark Energy Camera: Optimizing the LAGER Survey for z ~ 7 Galaxies

Zhen-Ya Zheng, James E. Rhoads, Junxian Wang +22

We present the design for the first narrowband filter NB964 for the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which is operated on the 4m Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Obse…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 64 cited

The Ly Luminosity Function and Cosmic Reionization at 7.0: a Tale of Two LAGER Fields

Weida Hu, Junxian Wang, Zhen-Ya Zheng +20

We present the largest-ever sample of 79 Ly emitters (LAEs) at 7.0 selected in the COSMOS and CDFS fields of the LAGER project (the Lyman Alpha Galaxies in the Epoch of…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 25 cited

A Deep Ly Survey in ECDF-S and COSMOS: I. General Properties of Lyman-alpha Emitters at

Cai-Na Hao, Jia-Sheng Huang, Xiaoyang Xia +3

Ly Emitters (LAEs) may represent an important galaxy population in the low mass regime. We present our deep narrowband imaging surveys in the COSMOS and ECDF-S fields and study…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 57 cited

The multidimensional dependence of halo bias in the eye of a machine: a tale of halo structure, assembly and environment

Jiaxin Han, Yin Li, Yipeng Jing +3

We develop a novel approach in exploring the joint dependence of halo bias on multiple halo properties using Gaussian process regression. Using a CDM -body simulation, we car…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 22 cited

Spatially resolved star formation and dust attenuation in Mrk848: Comparison of the integral field spectra and the UV-to-IR SED

F. -T. Yuan, M. Argudo-Fernandez, S. Shen +5

We investigate the star formation history and the dust attenuation in the galaxy merger Mrk848. Thanks to the multiwavelength photometry from the ultraviolet (UV) to the infrared (…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 86 cited

An ALMA survey of submillimeter galaxies in the COSMOS field: Multiwavelength counterparts and redshift distribution

Drew Brisbin, Oskari Miettinen, Manuel Aravena +28

We carried out targeted ALMA observations of 129 fields in the COSMOS region at 1.25 mm, detecting 152 galaxies at S/N5 with an average continuum RMS of 150 Jy. These fiel…