Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009newar..53...42b&link_type=abstract
New Astronomy Reviews, Volume 53, Issue 3, p. 42-43.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
Lyman alpha emitters (LAEs) are high-redshift galaxies that are believed to be actively star-forming and low in mass. Although such a population of galaxies would not be expected to lie on the Hubble Sequence, there is much we can learn from their morphological properties, including the size and distribution of their star-forming regions, the spatial correlation between emission in different bandpasses, and the possible presence of a merger/interaction with one or more neighboring galaxies. Early morphological studies suggest that most LAEs are small in size (≲1 kpc) and concentrated, but some (˜20-45%) are seen to display clumpy/irregular morphologies extending over larger radii. Constructing a more detailed picture will require a standard set of depth-independent morphological diagnostics for high-redshift galaxies. These diagnostics can then be measured differentially with redshift, shedding light on the evolution of the galaxy formation process with time.
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