Stacking the Cosmic Web in Fluorescent Lyman alpha Emission with MUSE

Autor: Gallego, Sofia G., Cantalupo, Sebastiano, Lilly, Simon, Marino, Raffaella Anna, Pezzulli, Gabriele, Schaye, Joop, Wisotzki, Lutz, Bacon, Roland, Inami, Hanae, Akhlaghi, Mohammad, Tacchella, Sandro, Richard, Johan, Bouche, Nicolas, Steinmetz, Matthias, Carollo, Marcella
Rok vydání: 2017
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty037
Popis: Cosmological simulations suggest that most of the matter in the Universe is distributed along filaments connecting galaxies. Illuminated by the cosmic UV background (UVB), these structures are expected to glow in fluorescent Lyman alpha emission with a Surface Brightness (SB) that is well below current observational limits for individual detections. Here, we perform a stacking analysis of the deepest MUSE/VLT data using three-dimensional regions (subcubes) with orientations determined by the position of neighbouring Lyman alpha galaxies (LAEs) at 3Comment: 16 pages, 13 figures, 1 table
Databáze: arXiv