{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/lyman-emitters-in-the-context-of-hierarchical","title":"Lyman-α Emitters in the context of hierarchical galaxy formation: predictions for VLT/MUSE surveys","arxiv_id":"1511.05597","date":"2015-11-17","proceeding":null,"authors":["Thibault Garel","Bruno Guiderdoni","Jérémy Blaizot"],"abstract":"The VLT Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) integral-field spectrograph can detect Ly\\alpha{} emitters (LAE) in the redshift range $2.8 \\lesssim z \\lesssim 6.7$ in a homogeneous way. Ongoing MUSE surveys will notably probe faint Ly\\alpha{} sources that are usually missed by current narrow-band surveys. We provide quantitative predictions for a typical wedding-cake observing strategy with MUSE based on mock catalogs generated with a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation coupled to numerical Ly\\alpha{} radiation transfer models in gas outflows. We expect $\\approx$ 1500 bright LAEs ($F_{Ly\\alpha}$ $\\gtrsim$ $10^{-17}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$) in a typical Shallow Field (SF) survey carried over $\\approx$ 100 arcmin$^2$, and $\\approx$ 2,000 sources as faint as $10^{-18}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ in a Medium-Deep Field (MDF) survey over 10 arcmin$^2$. In a typical Deep Field (DF) survey of 1 arcmin$^2$, we predict that $\\approx$ 500 extremely faint LAEs ($F_{Ly\\alpha}$ $\\gtrsim$ $4 \\times 10^{-19}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$) will be found. Our results suggest that faint Ly\\alpha{} sources contribute significantly to the cosmic Ly\\alpha{} luminosity and SFR budget. While the host halos of bright LAEs at z $\\approx$ 3 and 6 have descendants with median masses of $2 \\times 10^{12}$ and $5 \\times 10^{13}$ $M_{\\odot}$ respectively, the faintest sources detectable by MUSE at these redshifts are predicted to reside in halos which evolve into typical sub-$L^{*}$ and $L^{*}$ galaxy halos at z = 0. We expect typical DF and MDF surveys to uncover the building blocks of Milky Way-like objects, even probing the bulk of the stellar mass content of LAEs located in their progenitor halos at z $\\approx$ 3.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05597v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.05597v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"lyman-emitters-in-the-context-of-hierarchical","repo_url":"https://github.com/michaelJwilson/LBGSIMBA","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}