Description: Lyman-alpha as an Astrophysical and Cosmological Tool Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Saas-Fee Advanced Course 46. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy Author(s): Anne Verhamme, Pierre North, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Hakim Atek, Mark Dijkstra, J. Xavier Prochaska, Masami Ouchi, Matthew Hayes Format: Hardback Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, Germany Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K ISBN-13: 9783662596227, 978-3662596227 Synopsis The hydrogen Lyman-alpha line is of utmost importance to many fields of astrophysics. This UV line being conveniently redshifted with distance to the visible and even near infrared wavelength ranges, it is observable from the ground, and provides the main observational window on the formation and evolution of high redshift galaxies. Absorbing systems that would otherwise go unnoticed are revealed through the Lyman-alpha forest, Lyman-limit, and damped Lyman-alpha systems, tracing the distribution of baryonic matter on large scales, and its chemical enrichment. We are living an exciting epoch with the advent of new instruments and facilities, on board of satellites and on the ground. Wide field and very sensitive integral field spectrographs are becoming available on the ground, such as MUSE at the ESO VLT. The giant E-ELT and TMT telescopes will foster a quantum leap in sensitivity and both spatial and spectroscopic resolution, to the point of being able, perhaps, to measure directly the acceleration of the Hubble flow. In space, the JWST will open new possibilities to study the Lyman-alpha emission of primordial galaxies in the near infrared. As long as the Hubble Space Telescope will remain available, the UV-restframe properties of nearby galaxies will be accessible to our knowledge. Therefore, this Saas-Fee course appears very timely and should meet the interest of many young researchers.
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Book Title: Lyman-alpha as an Astrophysical and Cosmological Tool
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Width: 155 mm
Series: Saas-Fee Advanced Course
Author: J. Xavier Prochaska, Mark Dijkstra, Masami Ouchi, Matthew Hayes
Publication Name: Lyman-alpha as an Astrophysical and Cosmological Tool: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 46. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin AND Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. KG
Subject: Physics, Astronomy
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 799 g
Number of Pages: 403 Pages
