Models for Dusty Lyman alpha Emitters at High Redshift

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1998-09-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9809223v1

Astrophys.J.518:138-144,1999

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/307276

Models are presented for the Lyman alpha emission of dusty high-redshift galaxies by combining the Press-Schechter formalism with a treatment of the inhomogeneous dust distribution inside galaxies. It is found that the amount of Lyman alpha radiation escaping from the galaxies strongly depends on the time over which the dust is produced through stellar activity, and on the ambient inhomogeneity of the HII regions that surround the ionizing OB stars. Good agreement is found with recent observations, as well as previous non-detections. Our models indicate that the dust content builds up in no more than approximately 5x10^8 yr, the galactic HII regions are inhomogeneous with a cloud covering factor of order unity, and the overall star formation efficiency is at least about 5%. It is predicted that future observations can detect these Lyman alpha galaxies upto redshifts of about 8.

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