Understanding Lyman-alpha Emitters

MPIA, Heidelberg, Oct. 6 – 10, 2008

 

Last updated 2008-11-06

 

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Monday 6 October

9:30 – 9:40

Welcome by Hans-Walter Rix, director of MPIA

Session:

Local Universe

Chair:

Caryl Gronwall

9:40 – 10:10

Miguel Mas-Hesse:

Spectroscopic observations of Lyman-alpha emitters in the Local Universe (R) (ppt)

10:10 – 10:40

Matthew Hayes:

Lyman-alpha imaging of starburst galaxies at z ~ 0 (R) (ppt)

10:40 – 11:00

Hakim Atek:

The regulation of the Lyman-alpha Emission-Line in Star Forming Galaxies (ppt)

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break

Session:

Theory

11:30 – 12:15

Daniel Schaerer:

3D Lyman-alpha radiation transfer and applications to starburst galaxies (R) (pdf)

12:15 – 12:35

Anne Verhamme:

Effects of Lyman-alpha radiation transfer in galaxies (pdf)

12:35 – 12:55

Mark Dijkstra:

The Polarization and Pressure of Scattered Lyman-alpha Radiation (ppt)

12:55 – 14:30

Lunch

Chair:

Sangeeta Malhotra

14:30 – 15:15

Ken Nagamine:

Theoretical Modeling of LAEs in the cosmological context of LCDM Model (R) (pdf)

15:15 – 15:35

Masao Mori:

Evolution in Lyman-alpha Emitters and Lyman-Break Galaxies (ppt)

15:35 – 15:55

Ikkoh Shimizu:

Theoretical Model of Lyman-alpha Emitters and the relation to Multi-Wavelength Observations (pdf)

15:55 – 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 – 16:50

Masakazu Kobayashi:

LAE in Hierarchical Galaxy Formation (ppt)

16:50 – 17:10

Jean Walker-Soler:

Physical Properties of Dark Matter Halos z = 0, 0.8 and 2.2 Descended from LAEs at z = 3.1 (ppt)

17:10 – 17:40

Poster session I

 

 

 

Tuesday 7 October

Session:

General properties I

Chair:

Wolfram Freudling

9:15 – 10:00

Esther Hu:

Lyman alpha Emitters in historical and cosmic perspective (R) (ppt)

10:00 – 10:20

Caryl Gronwall:

The Luminosity function of z = 3.1 Lyman-alpha Emitters (ppt)

10:20 – 10:40

Robin Ciardullo:

The Star Formation and Dust Properties of z = 3.1 Lyman-alpha Emitters (ppt)

10:40 – 11:00

Lucia Guaita:

The Spectral Energy Distribution of LAEs at 2 < z < 3.1 (ppt)

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 – 11:50

Kim Nilsson:

Evolution in the properties of Lyman-alpha Emitters between redshifts z ~ 3 and z ~ 2 (ppt)

11:50 – 12:10

Nina Hatch:

Flies in the Web: the satellite galaxies of a massive z = 2 forming galaxy

12:10 – 12:30

Bram Venemans:

A detailed study of Lyman-alpha emission in z = 3 galaxies (pdf)

12:30 – 12:50

Poster session II

12:50 – 14:15

Lunch

Session:

General properties II

Chair:

Daniel Schaerer

14:15 – 15:00

Masami Ouchi:

Role of Ly-alpha Emitters in the History of Galaxy Formation  (R) (pdf)

15:00 – 15:20

Yuki Nakamura:

The overview of our search for Lyman-alpha emitters and absorbers at z = 3.1 (pdf)

15:20 – 15:40

Steven Finkelstein:

Understanding the Stellar Populations in Lyman Alpha Galaxies (pdf)

15:40 – 16:00

Yoshiaki Ono:

Stellar populations of z = 3.1 and 3.7 Lyman-Alpha Emitters with K ~ 23 – 27 from deep 0.5 – 8 mm photometry (ppt)

18:30

Conference dinner at Heidelberg Schloss

 

 

 

Wednesday 8 October

Session:

Comparisons with other types of galaxies

Chair:

Klaus Meisenheimer

9:15 – 9:45

Johan Fynbo:

LAEs are Different from Other High-redshift Galaxies (R) (ppt)

9:45 – 10:15

Eric Gawiser:

LAEs are Similar to Other High-redshift Galaxies (R) (ppt)

10:15 – 10:35

Naveen Reddy:

Connection between LAEs and LBGs (ppt)

10:35 – 11:10

Coffee break

11:10 – 11:30

Laura Pentericci:

The physical properties of high redshift Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies (ppt)

11:30 – 11:50

Aprajita Verma:

Intense starbursts at z ~ 5: First stellar mass assembly in the progenitors of present-day spheroids (ppt)

11:50 – 12:10

Bo Milvang-Jensen:

Lyman alpha emission from GRB host galaxies (pdf)

12:10 – 12:30

Helmut Dannerbauer:

Discovery of a multiply-imaged Lyman-alpha galaxy at the redshift of a SCUBA galaxy at z = 2.56 (ppt)

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

Session:

Blobs

Chair:

Esther Hu

14:00 – 14:20

Yuichi Matsuda:

A Panoramic Search for Lyman-alpha Blobs at z = 3 (pdf)

14:20 – 14:40

Moire Prescott:

Exploring Sites of Galaxy Formation: Large Lyman-alpha Nebulae at z ~ 2 – 3 (pdf)

14:40 – 15:00

Claudia Scarlata:

Extended Lyman-alpha Nebulae: cold accretion or Population III stars? (ppt)

15:00 – 15:20

Jim Geach:

The X-ray properties of Lyman-alpha Blobs (pdf)

15:20 – 15:40

James Colbert:

What power the Lyman-alpha Blob? (ppt)

15:40 – 16:10

Coffee break

16:10 – 16:30

Cedric Lacey:

Semi-analytical modeling of LAE evolution (pdf)

16:30 – 16:50

Alvaro Orsi:

The clustering of Lyman-alpha emitters in a LCDM Universe (pdf)

 

 

 

Thursday 9 October

Discussion:

New Methods and Selection Methods

Chair:

Daniel Kunth

9:15 – 9:35

Guillermo A. Blanc:

VIRUS-P Survey for Lyman-Alpha Emitters at 2 < z < 4 (ppt)

9:35 – 9:55

Michael Rauch:

Ultra-Deep Searches for Lyman-alpha Emission at z ~ 3 (pdf)

9:55 – 10:15

Paolo Cassata:

The evolution of Lyman-alpha Emitters between z = 2 and z = 6.7: a sample of ~110 sources from VVDS spectroscopy (ppt)

10:15 – 11:00

Discussion

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

Discussion:

Morphology

Chair:

Nicholas Bond

11:30 – 12:30

Discussion (ppt)

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

Discussion:

What can the local Universe observations tell us about the high redshift Universe?

Chair:

Gšran …stlin

14:00 – 15:30

Discussion (ppt)

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

Discussion:

Clustering

Chair:

Harold Francke

16:00 – 17:00

Discussion (ppt)

 

 

 

Friday 10 October

Discussion:

Theory – observational connection

Chair:

Sangeeta Malhotra

9:15 – 9:45

Sangeeta Malhotra:

Informing theory with observations of Lyman-alpha emitters (pdf)

9:45 – 10:30

Discussion

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

Discussion:

SED fitting

Chair:

Eric Gawiser

11:00 – 12:30

Discussion (ppt)

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

Discussion:

What are Lyman-alpha blobs?

Chair:

Toru Yamada

14:00 – 15:30

Discussion (pdf)

15:30 – 16:00

Concluding remarks – Klaus Meisenheimer

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee break

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poster Session I

Hidenobu Yajima

Escape fraction of ionizing photons from high-z Lyman alpha emitters and Lyman break galaxies (ppt)

Luke Barnes

A joint model of the Lyman alpha emission and absorption properties of DLAs (ppt)

Benjamin ClŽment

Measuring the Contribution of Low-Luminosity Sources to Cosmic Reionization with SINFONI (pdf)

Pascale Hibon

A Lyman-alpha Narrow-band survey at z = 7.7 with WIRCam at CFHT (pdf)

Masanori Iye

SuprimeCam ultimate z ~ 7.3 LAE survey with red-sensitive CCDs (pdf)

Chris Lidman

Deep optical and near-IR spectroscopy of a very bright Lyman alpha emitter (ppt)

Pierre North

Deep VLT spectroscopy of Ly-alpha envelopes around z = 4.5 RQQs (pdf)

Tomoki Saito

Unbiased survey for Ly-alpha blobs (pdf)

Daniel Smith

A wide-field search for the brightest Lyman-alpha haloes (ppt)

Yujin Yang

Extended Lyman alpha Nebulae at z = 2.3: An Extremely Rare and Strongly Clustered Population? (pdf)

 

 

 

Poster Session II

Nicholas Bond

Broad- and Narrow-band Morphologies of Lyman Alpha Emitters at z ~ 3 (pdf)

Harold Francke

The Clustering properties of LAEs in MUSYC (ppt)

Emily McLinden

Lyman Alpha Galaxies at z ~ 3.1: Probes of Large Scale Structure (pdf)

Ernst Kuiper

A census of the galaxies in the protocluster around MRC 0316-257 (pdf)

Kouji Ohta

Stellar populations of LBGs at z ~ 5 (pdf)

Suraphong Yuma

Stellar populations of LAEs at z = 4.8 (pdf)

Toru Yamada

Line Profiles of Lyman Alpha Emitters (pdf)