Author : Josephine Victoria Kerutt
Release : 2019
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Book Synopsis The High-redshift Voyage of Lyman [alpha] and Lyman Continuum Emission as Told by MUSE by : Josephine Victoria Kerutt
Download or read book The High-redshift Voyage of Lyman [alpha] and Lyman Continuum Emission as Told by MUSE written by Josephine Victoria Kerutt. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the matter in the universe consists of hydrogen. The hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM), the matter between the galaxies, underwent a change of its ionisation state at the epoch of reionisation, at a redshift roughly between 6>z>10, or ~10^8 years after the Big Bang. At this time, the mostly neutral hydrogen in the IGM was ionised but the source of the responsible hydrogen ionising emission remains unclear. In this thesis I discuss the most likely candidates for the emission of this ionising radiation, which are a type of galaxy called Lyman alpha emitters (LAEs). As implied by their name, they emit Lyman alpha radiation, produced after a hydrogen atom has been ionised and recombines with a free electron. The ionising radiation itself (also called Lyman continuum emission) which is needed for this process inside the LAEs could also be responsible for ionising the IGM around those galaxies at the epoch of reionisation, given that enough Lyman continuum escapes. Through this mechanism, Lyman alpha and Lyman continuum ...