Introduction Lyman-$\alpha$ emitters and their intensity map are powerful probes of the large-scale structure. Given typically very high optical depths, scatterings with neutral hydrogen have a non-negligible impact on the observed distribution of Lyman-$\alpha$ photons. To study this in detail, we run a suit of radiative transfer (RT) simulations on the Illustris simulation and investigate two possible distortion effects arising from RT in real space as well as in redshift space for the two-point correlation function.
Lyman-alpha emitters and their intensity map are powerful probes of the large-scale structure at optical and near-infrared wavelength as HETDEX plans. However, the fact that the Lyman-alpha photons are scattered due to the neutral hydrogen has …
In 1967 Partridge and Peebles theorized that young galaxies at high redshifts emitting Lyman-α photons might be a suitable tracer of large-scale structure. Those distant galaxies of high Lyman-α emission, so-called Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) can be used to constrain the cosmological standard model at high redshifts and furthermore allow insight for the environment of those galaxies. The Lyman-α line corresponds to the energy difference from the ground state to the first excited state of neutral hydrogen.
Lyman-alpha emitters can be used as probes of the large-scale structure at intermediate redshifts. Recent work discusses a possible distortion from radiative transfer effects of the resonant Lyman-alpha line on the observed clustering statistics, …